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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
20 Jun 2022 Acquired The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories
“In 2008, Bezos came. This was right after AWS had launched. He used it as a marketing opportunity to market to all of the startups and future startups about why they should build on AWS instead of rolling their own infrastructure.”
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- David Rosenthal
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- evaluation
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- 20 Jun 2022
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- Acquired
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…I went to one in the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. That's right, I went to one too. They would bring founders and luminaries to come and talk and inspire the next generation of founders, and basically, to inspire applications to YC. In 2008, Bezos came. This was right after AWS had launched. He used it as a marketing opportunity to market to all of the startups and future startups about why they should build on AWS instead of rolling their own infrastructure. We shouldn't say this strategy worked ludicrously well. AWS got probably a five-year lead on cloud by piling people on the plane from Seattle going down to the Bay Area, evangelizing like crazy to all these startups.…
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