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The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:52 Paul Buchheit You know, those companies are IPO'd by the time I graduated, so, and they were all located here, you know, with the exception of Amazon up in Seattle.
- ▶ 41:47 Paul Buchheit Yeah, so I, I thought a lot about, you know, what is it that makes these, these companies that are, you know, Google, Netflix, uh, Amazon, like, all of these, like, just huge, huge companies, like, what is the thing that gets you there,…
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:46 Shola Akinlade So it's, um, a lot of Node, um, Node.js, um, and sitting on AWS.
A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:01 Eric Migicovsky That's kind of like halfway there, um, that you can actually just buy off Amazon or Alibaba or something.
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:06 Ralph Goody Um, our stack, we're, you know, based on AWS, we used to be based on a variety of other things. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:28 Calvin French-Owen Uh, in terms of how we run our infrastructure, uh, we run on top of ECS, Amazon's container service, and pretty much all of our different services are containerized.
- ▶ 7:55 Lillian Chou Um, and then for our front end, we're React-based and leverage column, columnar data storage on the backend to service queries, so think Redshift.
- ▶ 52:04 Calvin French-Owen Uh, kind of the only case where we'd outsource is when AWS could take some piece of infrastructure that we're building, or like, some new product feature, and we could build on top of that.
A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:34 Elizabeth Iorns Um, things like Stripe and things like, um, AWS has made it so much easier for people to create companies, and I think in the science space we're, we're starting to see that, so obviously science exchange is, you know, one way to do that,…
Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
- ▶ 49:58 Patrick Collison Um, but I think that sort of the, the, the most successful larger organizations somehow, uh, do succeed in sort of this, um, uh, iterative, repeated, repeated process of kind of augmentation, uh, you know, Amazon and Google being kind of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:27 Patrick Collison Um, and that's not the, sort of, standard, obviously, uh, kind of, Silicon Valley pattern where, sort of, Apple and Amazon and Facebook and Google and all these companies, uh, tend to be, sort of, highly concentrated in these, um, uh, sort…
SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:02 Eli Schwartz When it comes to e-commerce, it's really only Amazon that's doing it amazing. 4 times in the scene
PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:00 Kat Manalac Um, so the example for Orbi, they can say, you know, Orbi, we're a flying robot company, and we're giving brick and mortar retails a fighting chance against Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:17 Suhail Doshi Um, and like even Amazon, if you go to amazon.com, right? 4 times in the scene
A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:19 Ooshma Garg Amazon brings to e-commerce and what Netflix and Spotify bring to, um, movies and music.
- ▶ 53:48 Ooshma Garg It was the hardest fundraising, and it's because, um, Amazon acquired Whole Foods, and everyone is afraid of Amazon, so they just thought Amazon's gonna do Gobble. 2 times in the scene
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:32 Peter Reinhardt Um, about two years in, we discovered that all of our most valuable customers were sending their data to an S-III bucket, which is basically, they were keeping log files of the raw data. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:17 Peter Reinhardt And then they're uploading it to our data warehouse, which is a redshift cluster. 3 times in the scene
David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:22 David Rusenko You'll see a normal press spike later, but in this particular case, we only had two servers, and we were really worried about our servers burning down, and AWS didn't exist back then.
Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:42 Michael Seibel Who knows why, right? 2 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:23 Ryan Petersen But we also, I think, are the best way to ship stuff to Amazon, so we have about 2000 merchants that sell on Amazon that use us. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:23 Ryan Petersen You can look up any factory, see all their customers, um, used by hedge funds, but it's really used by, uh, importers, Amazon merchants who are trying to research factories overseas. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:45 Ryan Petersen That's how they, they look at their sales data and then be like, which, which product should we clone and go make an Amazon basics version of that product.
- ▶ 12:29 Craig Cannon So they're like not selling on Amazon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:35 Ryan Petersen And so I had been, I had felt the pain firsthand of this whole industry back in early 2000 when I was still selling stuff on eBay and Amazon and stuff.
Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung Discuss Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:42 Adora Cheung Um, or you can, uh, be, if you're, especially if you're full-time founders, you can just apply and be part of Startup School officially, which means, like I said before, you get, um, access to, uh, mentorship, mentor, sorry, advisors, you…
- ▶ 9:35 Adora Cheung Uh, so we have, uh, cloud credits from Amazon Web Services, um, and, uh, DigitalOcean, um, and maybe some others, um, and then every company that comes through will be able to, um, incorporate and, uh, create a bank account with, through…
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:28 Elad Gil And I think one of the big fallacies in Silicon Valley is everybody thinks that they're Amazon and they basically say every business model should be Amazon's, which is I'm going to charge as low of a price as possible 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:34 Elad Gil Uh, PayPal and Google and Amazon and et cetera were all from that first era. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:53 Elad Gil Yeah, uh, for the book, uh, the best place is Amazon.
Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:53 unnamed speaker They're, they're pushing it almost to like an AWS layer where you, you have, you interact with your quantum computer
Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:04 Sean Mitchell They, they, you know, the same experience that they have with, you know, buying something on Amazon is the same experience that they want to have with leasing an apartment.
- ▶ 38:16 Sean Mitchell Like, there, there are apartments, there are apartments in New York where you'll, you know, they'll give you a year worth of Netflix, they'll give you, um, an Amazon Echo.
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:07 Vivek Ravisankar I used to work at Amazon as a developer before this, um, where I did a lot of technical interviews, which is kind of where I saw the problem. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:11 Vivek Ravisankar And Amazon was, uh, was a great, was a great company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:23 Vivek Ravisankar Um, because the, the way, at least I was brought up and for most part in India is if you, if you keep a charger or if you keep the Amazon box right outside the door, somebody is going to take it away.
- ▶ 30:19 unnamed speaker And then what are, what are the differences between, you know, startups hiring and big, you know, like Amazon type companies?
- ▶ 34:43 Vivek Ravisankar I mean, a large company like Apple or Amazon or Google will, uh, will need to put in constraints.
Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:16 unnamed speaker I mean, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Netflix, all of those, there's quite a bit of market cap if you add those up together.
- ▶ 16:08 Andy Bromberg But, in the nineties, we did get software and services, and John Dora funding Netflix and Amazon, ah, and for the first time, we're seeing
- ▶ 34:24 Andy Bromberg So Filecoin tries to solve this problem of storing files, and the obvious solution to storing files is Amazon S three, which is I'm going to go, people want to store files.
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:25 Paul Buchheit Which they sold to Amazon, unfortunately, for a billion dollars. 2 times in the scene
The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:06 Avni Patel Thompson Um, at the time my husband went to Amazon and I went to Starbucks, still a very neat and tidy kind of corporate, uh, story.
It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:35 Sam Chaudhary And there's actually something that Amazon talked about a lot with like the two pizza teams and things is if you can get small, uh, autonomous teams.
- ▶ 33:34 Sam Chaudhary It's about Amazon.
- ▶ 34:56 Sam Chaudhary I'm trying to, I should pull up my Kindle and, and, and, uh, and think of what some of the unusual ones are.
Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:52 Craig Cannon I saw that they have an, I think it's an Amazon show now. 2 times in the scene
Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 47:24 Robin Sloan There are a couple things, there are a couple things that people, like, on Kindle highlights, you can see what people liked, but honestly, there's no other line that had that, like, that became, like, truly, like, a social object that,…
Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:30 Greg Brockman You train a model to predict the next character in Amazon reviews, and just by learning to predict the next character in Amazon reviews, somehow it learned a state-of-the-art sentiment analysis classifier.
- ▶ 11:15 Greg Brockman And so I had to write a thing to kind of chunk up things into five gigabyte tar balls and put those in S three and slip them back down.
- ▶ 14:59 Greg Brockman You have to stick them in S III somewhere.
Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
- ▶ 49:21 Casey Neistat We could barely pay like our, our Amazon bills.
Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:08:57 Sonal Choksi And I would definitely describe myself as a ridiculous infovore, and I love Twitter, and I love reading every single thing I can get my hands on, and I have 20 books in the air on my Kindle, because that's very mood-based.
Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:29 Craig Cannon People going to, uh, it was a year or two ago, Toys R Us and reselling on Amazon.
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:11 Tikhon Bernstam Um, and back then, like, AWS was kind of just still very much in its infancy, but you could see the need for, like,
- ▶ 16:50 Tikhon Bernstam Or we, I later switched to AWS for mobile. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:39 Tikhon Bernstam Um, like to, to like S-III say.
- ▶ 25:35 Craig Cannon It's AWS for parse.
Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:40 Lauren McCarthy And then I paid, uh, people through the service called Amazon Mechanical Turk, small amounts of money to watch the date and try and give me instructions for what to say or do to see if that they might be better at kind of coaching me or… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:29 Lauren McCarthy Um, I'm, I don't know if excited is the right word, but, um, I've been, like, really obsessed with, uh, just all this home automation stuff and thinking about Alexa and, um, products like that, Google Home, and it's, it's so interesting… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:38 Lauren McCarthy I, well, so another piece of this is thinking about these services, like, um, TaskRabbit or Uber or, like, where, or, uh, Mechanical Turk, where you've got some human on some side of it, and you, depending on the service, there's a… 2 times in the scene
Spotting Ecommerce Trends in Shipping Data - Laura Behrens Wu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:34 Laura Behrens Wu Amazon Prime has taught them that.
- ▶ 0:35 Laura Behrens Wu And whenever they see, uh, shipping rates at checkout that are unexpected or too high, they drop off and they go to Amazon to try to find the same things.
- ▶ 1:21 Laura Behrens Wu They don't want to sell their products on Amazon.
- ▶ 5:53 Craig Cannon Yeah, because you guys are, I mean, if you're selling to small businesses, right, that are, like, trying to differentiate themselves and not going to Amazon, how do you reach out to them if they're not necessarily even 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:37 Laura Behrens Wu All you have to do is find or make a product that is differentiated enough so that it's not like out there on Amazon or somewhere else where people can undercut you in terms of price.
- ▶ 11:30 Laura Behrens Wu Oh, and the other thing is like, you can't find it on Amazon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:47 Laura Behrens Wu And then Amazon has some, like you have Amazon Prime, so you save on shipping.
- ▶ 11:55 Craig Cannon Is anyone, I'm trying to think of a good example of someone doing well on Amazon and outside of it. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:03 Craig Cannon Do you think then that, like, Amazon will, like, uh, completely, like, take over all of these prepackaged meal kits now? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:48 Craig Cannon and I had bought so much from Amazon that I was taking out the recycling that day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:29 Laura Behrens Wu What I do admire about Amazon is whenever something is not right, they will give you a free item. 3 times in the scene
Baidu's AI Lab Director on Advancing Speech Recognition and Simulation · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:16 Craig Cannon So kind of doing that, like, you know, the language, uh, prediction stuff, like the open AI guys were doing with the Amazon reviews, like predicting what's coming next.
Emily Weiss on the Insights That Grew Glossier - With Amy Buechler at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:42 Emily Weiss and so I think it's really cool that right now, uh, you should be encouraged to be your own curator of your own life in every arena, you know, whether that's, um, you know, what food you're eating, or, uh, what blender you're buying, like,…
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:01 Juan Benet Um, but like, for example, if you're a company and you're trying to put a ton of data into Amazon, Amazon will say, hey, like just ship us a hard drive
- ▶ 47:06 Juan Benet Everyone trusts, uh, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Airbnb, or whatever.
- ▶ 1:54:23 Juan Benet Or do we use AWS?
- ▶ 1:54:40 Juan Benet There's a certain set of features that Falcon will bring that other things don't have, so being able to have decentralized data means that, you know, if Amazon doesn't like you anymore, they can't, like, just in one turn shut you off in a… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:58:35 Juan Benet They're actually, like, either in S three or other places, and, you know, would jump directly to us.
Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:27 Gustaf Alströmer There's really no benefit in automatically logging people out after, after a couple of months, after a couple of days in terms of growth, so I would, I would look for Amazon for some advice on how they've done things.
At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:00 Craig Cannon Does that become the new AWS for products, or do people have to build their own to create like a defensible company?
Scaling Culture | Jason Kilar, former Hulu CEO · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:53 Jason Kilar Um, after that, uh, spent nine years at Amazon.
- ▶ 7:17 Jason Kilar But when you're a team of a thousand or 10,000 or 300 plus thousand, as the case is with Amazon right now,
- ▶ 8:08 Jason Kilar Um, I thought I'd talk, uh, about, um, uh, something that's probably a little bit more relevant to everybody in this room today, which is Amazon. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:30 Jason Kilar Um, there was incredibly smart engineers, uh, inside the, the shopping cart organization that created and launched, uh, Amazon Prime.
- ▶ 16:27 Jason Kilar Um, this is something I do want to highlight about Amazon.
- ▶ 21:05 Jason Kilar Um, but our experience, and, and on this one, I'm specifically referring to Amazon.
- ▶ 22:32 Jason Kilar So my, I'll, I'll go back to the Amazon one because that's where that, that principle came, you know, originally, uh, came from is that one of the other principles, which I didn't highlight here is, um, uh, you know, great leaders are… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:39 Jason Kilar And, uh, you know, one public one that has been covered already in the press is the echo team, uh, you know, was working so hard and was so excited about the technology that they had invented.
An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator
- ▶ 48:23 Wojciech Zaremba For recommendation systems, you have often companies like Amazon, they have examples of millions, millions of users, and they know what they bought when they were happy or not, and that's an example of a task that is pretty good for neural…
The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:48 Ed McManus And so like one of the things that like, I was, you know, like, uh, I was like, we have to get the guys to move to AWS. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:16 Craig Cannon Yeah, I'm curious to see if, like, you know, given Amazon and Netflix spending
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