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Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:15 Blake Scholl And then he wrote the 2015 Amazon shareholder letter about how there's certain things that only big companies can do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:29 Blake Scholl Uh, I was lucky to start my career at, uh, at Amazon, uh, in, uh, in, uh, when my, my family thought it was a bookstore. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:17 Blake Scholl Uh, you know, when I started my first company, I had, uh, I figured I knew e-commerce from my time at Amazon. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:51 Blake Scholl He was laughed at by the world for e-commerce.
- ▶ 45:06 Blake Scholl Right out of college, I didn't really know what startup I wanted to start, and so I went to work at Amazon and got some great experience there.
How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:09 Olivier Pomel There's this Amazon thing.
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:01 Jared Friedman This is before AWS.
- ▶ 32:37 Garry Tan And then intsforge in the current YC batch, um, is like sort of AWS, agent phone, agent mail, like
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:21 Quan Vuong Robot to, you know, new tasks, um, and right now they're focusing on logistics space, which is really important because, you know, there's lots of labor shortage in logistics, and the task that we focus on together here is, you know, if… 2 times in the scene
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:25 Mukund Jha I dropped out of the PhD program, joined Google, and Maddy went on to, um, was in Zenefits, then went on, uh, to start the deep learning team at Amazon.
- ▶ 9:06 unnamed speaker Basically, you went very hardcore in terms of being maximalist in engineering from your experience, having run large engineering teams at 300 engineers, having worked on deep learning teams at Amazon, you really knew how to architect the…
The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:30 Spencer Skates I was like, early version of Siri, and it had this really amazing demo, actually, where you could, it listened in the background for your voice, and this was before any of the Hey Siri, Hey Alexis stuff.
Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:06 Jesse Pollak So to AWS, the chain is kind of the next generation of that, where you can imagine you write code, it runs on this globally distributed computer, anyone can access it and participate in it, and that's the substrate where you can build.
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:20 Aaron Levie It just like emerged one day and it was like, this is like, it seems kind of cool and efficient, but if you're in an IT department, the cloud was actually very scary because you're taking your servers that you manage, you can see them,…
- ▶ 6:06 Aaron Levie It's been in the zeitgeist, um, self-driving cars, watching, you know, Watson on jeopardy, uh, using, you know, early products like Siri and Alexa.
- ▶ 12:40 David Lieb And yet today, Amazon announces that you should expect that they have fewer headcount over the next few years because of AI. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:25 David Lieb Like there's Amazon.
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:26 Max Junestrand Exemption from human review when you look at the way Azure and AWS is structured, and we, we kind of jumped through all those hoops and just built a system that was compliant for law firms to work with, and then very quickly as the general…
- ▶ 24:10 Max Junestrand So we, we use AWS and Claude and Gemini and GPT and Mistral kind of interchangeably.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:15 Aravind Srinivas And we hope to make it like a cloud where you launch several tasks in parallel that are running asynchronously, and pulling all your personal contacts, your email, your calendar, your Amazon, your, you know, all sorts of social media…
- ▶ 12:49 Aravind Srinivas How are you going to take money from, um, Amazon and like Walmart for the same ad where they're all bidding against each other?
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:41 Kirsten Green Because like, for instance, Amazon, it's the juggernaut of retail. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:28 Garry Tan Yeah, and it happens in, ah, you know, Amazon. 3 times in the scene
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:05 Garry Tan Swiggy, Zomato, even Amazon was at it.
- ▶ 11:17 Aadit Palicha If you go into the ground in India, we're sort of looked at more as like a, like a hyper-local Amazon.
- ▶ 24:17 Aadit Palicha And until we can credibly come in and say that, Hey, uh, we're able to hold our own to some of the best, uh, globally, like a, like an Amazon or a DoorDash or a Mercado Libre or all these other companies.
- ▶ 32:43 Garry Tan You know, going through your description of how Zepto works in India, uh, it actually sounds way more awesome than what Amazon is doing. 2 times in the scene
From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:15 Harj Taggar The grants will be 20,000 dollars in cash and another 90,000 dollars in compute credits from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.
How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:52 Parker Conrad And, um, one of my roommates from college who was working for Amazon came to me and wanted to start a company.
How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:21 Nicolas Dessaigne Library and frameworks like React, Node.js, or LongChain, or even infrastructure or cloud services like AWS or Verso, and many other tools, Docker, Terraform, Datadog, GitHub.
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:18 Sam Altman By the way, Alec is this unbelievable outlier of a human, and so he did this incredible work, which was just looking at, he, he noticed there was one neuron that was flipping positive or negative sentiment as it was doing these generative…
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:55 Harj Taggar Like Stripe, AWS, both
How To Price For B2B | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:52 Tom Blomfield Perhaps your costs are mainly open AI fees or something like that, and AWS fees, and that comes to something like 200,000 dollars. 2 times in the scene
B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:39 Tom Blomfield It might've been your AWS bill or your bandwidth bill or something like that.
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:50 Diana Hu So they put it very together, very quickly together, and it was the first visual editor by creating an A-B test that was just a JavaScript file that lived on S-III.
- ▶ 15:43 Diana Hu For example, authentication, you have things like Auth Zero, payments, you have Stripe, cross-platform support and rendering, you have things like React Native, cloud infrastructure, you have AWS, GCP, landing pages, you have Webflow,…
How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:56 Brad Flora If you want to read more about Serby's story, she actually has an awesome book coming out in the spring, and it's on Amazon right now, and we'll share the link with you in the chat if you want to check it out and pre-order it.
The REAL potential of generative AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:05 Raza Habib Not like Alexa or Siri.
How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:46 Jared Friedman So you can think about it like amazon.com for vets. 2 times in the scene
Don't Make These Hiring Mistakes · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:32 unnamed speaker Um, like, you imagine like Instacarturing, Amazon buying Whole Foods, like that probably changed up the business.
Save Your Startup During an Economic Downturn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:30 Michael Seibel And I'd argue this is one of the dirty little secrets behind Amazon. 2 times in the scene
How To Compete With Amazon and Google · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:43 Harj Taggar Like, day one, like, the number one thing was, well, Amazon's gonna do this, Amazon's gonna do this, like, how the hell does anyone compete with, like, one of the greatest companies of all time, like, on the thing that they're experts at,… 3 times in the scene
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:04 Dalton Caldwell And so, being a startup founder, until AWS took off, part of the job was to drive to the suburbs, or whatever, drive to some data center, which is an anonymous warehouse building somewhere, go in there, and like,
Simple Products That Became Big Companies – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:12 Dalton Caldwell You're like, oh, we're the next Amazon, so we're going to build everything Amazon has. 3 times in the scene
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 52:52 Iba Masood Offers from Google, Amazon, PayPal.
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:24 Matt Cutts so if you think Amazon Web Services was introduced in like 2006 ish, if you can in three ish years go from 1995 to 2006, instead of going one year per year, you're doing like three years per year.
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:56 Joe Betts-Lacroix Or, or Amazon is now involved in video surveillance on the, at the behest, as you were saying, of police forces all over the country.
- ▶ 36:04 unnamed speaker Maybe they host it on Amazon, but.
Camille Fournier on Managing Technical Teams · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:01 Camille Fournier Like, like, I think there are companies that I've heard that, like, Amazon is, like, has a, has a process where they go through, like, the core values of Amazon, and they're trying to, like, make sure whoever they're interviewing is… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:10 unnamed speaker But even the core values of Amazon aren't necessarily the core values of, like, AWS based in New York.
- ▶ 48:46 Camille Fournier Um, so it's going to be, it's going to be an O'Reilly publication, so it will be on Safari, it will also be on Amazon, Kindle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:46 Camille Fournier Um, so it's going to be, it's going to be an O'Reilly publication, so it will be on Safari, it will also be on Amazon, Kindle.
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:05 Gustaf Alströmer We made it kind of like Amazon, where if you want to do something sensitive to the site, you'd have to, um, go and log in again or authenticate again.
- ▶ 54:47 Craig Cannon AWS is so cheap.
Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:33 Michael Babineau Only come out with, they only report metrics, uh, once a quarter, and it's, like, not right at the end of the quarter, it's actually sometime afterwards, so you can actually look at how many people visit, if you can see how many people…
- ▶ 24:30 Craig Cannon Have you been following how Amazon Basics has developed their products?
- ▶ 24:38 Michael Babineau I'd say for us, that is, uh, not something what we have a lot of visibility into because, um, at the end of the day, we just see an Amazon purchase. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:49 Kevin Hale But you've done some research about Amazon Prime people. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:46 Craig Cannon Yeah, if Amazon was all classified in one category, that would not be good.
Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:24 Vidit Aatrey They've not been going to malls, they've not been going to the Amazon of the world to buy these products.
- ▶ 16:52 Adora Cheung What if Facebook does this or what if Amazon, why can't, like, why wouldn't just Amazon or Flipkart or anyone just win this space? 2 times in the scene
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:57 Kevin Hale Yeah, well, because this was also, this was pre-AWS as well, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:43 Brian Halligan You didn't have AWS.
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:32 Austen Allred Um, so I, what I like to say is, you know, you look at Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
- ▶ 47:01 Marques Brownlee Income where you, you talk about products a lot, you might as well share the availability to buy those products, so Amazon has an affiliate system, B&H has an affiliate system.
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:33 Dalton Caldwell Um, and so certainly that's how Wirecutter works is like, if you click on the thing and you buy it on Amazon, they get a three percent.
What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:16 Avni Patel Thompson And I mean, I think it's also, it's also narrative on, you know, how we think about, I mean, because, but a lot of other folks did try their first thing, the Airbnb and Amazon and Apple, right?
Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:02 Andrew Kortina Um, and when we started, there was like all this excitement about like Alexa and Google Home, and all these pure software AI, natural language processing things, which have very good, um,
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:55 Brian Donohue And then the third one is there's actually tons of reading applications now, and the iPhone is a main reading device for a lot of people, whether you use Kindle or Apple News or
- ▶ 50:57 Craig Cannon Or like the amazing Kindle dot Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:03 Brian Donohue And so I looked into creating Alexa skill for Instapaper in early 2016. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:19 Brian Donohue Now, Amazon has more recently 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:22 Brian Donohue Launched Amazon Polly, which kind of has some of the Alexa functionality for developers on AWS. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:22 Brian Donohue Launched Amazon Polly, which kind of has some of the Alexa functionality for developers on AWS.
- ▶ 1:02:34 Craig Cannon He made a, uh, Chrome extension that was like, send to Kindle, but it didn't do anything.
A Conversation with Werner Vogels · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:05 Kyle Corbitt Um, he is the CTO of Amazon, um, and of course has, uh, a lot of really exciting experience with that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:40 Kyle Corbitt Um, would you mind telling us about your career before you started at Amazon and sort of what brought you to that point? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:12 Dr. Werner Vogels unparalleled you know in a 2004 when I joined Amazon I mean many of you if you're going to be successful will be easily operating at that particular scale that Amazon was at in 2004 but there was no body of work that you could really rely… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:30 Kyle Corbitt So a couple of years after you joined, um, you were appointed the CTO of Amazon, um, and- 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:27 Dr. Werner Vogels This is all pre-AWS.
- ▶ 11:44 Dr. Werner Vogels So lots of new e-commerce companies were being built based on the Amazon catalog. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:50 Dr. Werner Vogels And I think one of the things that has shifted with AWS and cloud is that, um, the investment that you get no longer goes in large numbers to hardware companies. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:15 Dr. Werner Vogels Yeah, and so the first one we launched was, um, Amazon S III, the simple storage service, in, in, uh, spring of 2006.
- ▶ 27:44 Dr. Werner Vogels We launched EC-II in the fall of that, that year.
- ▶ 28:06 Kyle Corbitt So, I am curious, I mean, at, at the time as you were developing this, before it was released, did Amazon have a sense, I mean, it's, it's a dominant product now in the world, it's changed the way developers work, um, at small and large… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:37 Dr. Werner Vogels And that was clearly something that AWS falls into that particular category. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:41 Dr. Werner Vogels Things like the Kindle, Amazon Prime, others are all things that to do that we needed to do significant capital investment.
- ▶ 29:41 Dr. Werner Vogels Things like the Kindle, Amazon Prime, others are all things that to do that we needed to do significant capital investment.
- ▶ 30:29 Dr. Werner Vogels I remember when we were developing S III, we wrote a number on the board, um, that we thought, oh, and within six months, we're probably, let's build this for this number of objects in, in the storage engine, and then just for the heck of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:27 Dr. Werner Vogels Fortunately, with all the lessons from Amazon.com, we'd actually taken the right steps there.
- ▶ 36:14 Dr. Werner Vogels I mean, if you run a whole batch of EC-II instances, whether you use them or not, they're, you're being built for them.
- ▶ 38:47 Kyle Corbitt Um, I was, I'm curious, could you describe sort of the product development, um, flow that, that you put in that post, and then tell me what you learned, and whether Amazon still uses that structure? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:31 Dr. Werner Vogels I think what makes AWS, for example, successful is because we focus on products, meaning what do we want to build for our customer? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:01 Dr. Werner Vogels I think people that start from scratch more and more develop around sort of serverless environments, and so you could even consider, so for our, we've, at AWS, two container products. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:12 Dr. Werner Vogels It is an Amazon.
- ▶ 52:38 Dr. Werner Vogels So we've got quite a few people that are for the first time AWS users, but that have already had experiences, let's say, building services and using a traditional data center. 4 times in the scene
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