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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
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