Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
6 Sept 2022 Acquired Amazon Web Services
“I think in that interview, if it wasn't that one, it's another one around that time, he talks about people say, Reed, you compete with amazon.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Sept 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Amazon Web Services
Transcript context
…I don't know about 100%, but yes, they're still an enormous customer. Reed Hastings was actually the very first guest interviewed on stage at the first re:Invent in 2012. I think in that interview, if it wasn't that one, it's another one around that time, he talks about people say, Reed, you compete with amazon. com, aren't you worried about being on AWS? And he's like, no. I'm not worried at all about being on AWS. It is legitimately the smart infrastructure decision for us to make. That was such a feather in Amazon's cap. They've had two big feathers in their cap, there's that one and the CIA one. It's secure enough for the CIA to use, so it should be secure enough for you, and that was a few years later. The Netflix one, a lot of people were afraid to use AWS early on because they felt like they didn't want to do business with Amazon if they were a retailer, or they didn't want to do business with Amazon if they were in video, or in any of these things that Amazon was competing on. Reed getting up on stage and saying this matter of factly and so forcefully was him saying, you can trust that AWS is different than Amazon.…
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