Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
6 Sept 2022 Acquired Amazon Web Services
“In 2014, Jeff Bezos wrote the annual memo that comes out, a letter to shareholders and said, "I believe that AWS’s market size is unconstrained.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Sept 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Amazon Web Services
Transcript context
…$80 billion. In 2014, Jeff Bezos wrote the annual memo that comes out, a letter to shareholders and said, "I believe that AWS’s market size is unconstrained. " That was the point at which it was a year before they broke out AWS's financials, and I think it was a $6 billion run rate business. When the "AWS IPO," which I think Ben Thompson coined that term. It happened in 2015. That was when they reported Q1 2015 earnings. That point in time, AWS had a $6 billion revenue run rate.…
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