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Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video]

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Re: Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video]

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cowmix wrote: post #2

Bezos quotes an article about AWS, "..in fact Amazon's real business down the line will be its cloud services. Amazon will be like a bookstore that sells cocaine out the back door. Book will just be a front."

Source article here: https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazons-cloud-computing-will-s...

Re: Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video]

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

One thing I think is so extraordinary about Jeff Bezos is his uncanny technical prescience despite not really being a technologist. For example, the famous Steve Yegge "platforms rant" blog post [1] about how Bezos basically made a company-wide edict for microservices was very much ahead of its time. Similarly, the vision of cloud computing was much more advanced and early than any of its competitors. Considering this came from a company that already had a huge business of selling things, I think this technical foresight is pretty remarkable.

[1] https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

Re: Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video]

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Post by whoisjuan »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #6

One thing I think is so extraordinary about Jeff Bezos is his uncanny technical prescience despite not really being a technologist. For example, the famous Steve Yegge "platforms rant" blog post [1] about how Bezos basically made a company-wide edict for microservices was very much ahead of its time. Similarly, the vision of cloud computing was much more advanced and early than any of its competitors. Considering thi…

I believe the cloud computing vision came from Andy Jassy. In fact he wrote the original six pager for AWS.

Equally impressive since Jassy isn't really a technologist either.

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Post by josh2600 »

whoisjuan wrote: post #7
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #6

One thing I think is so extraordinary about Jeff Bezos is his uncanny technical prescience despite not really being a technologist. For example, the famous Steve Yegge "platforms rant" blog post [1] about how Bezos basically made a company-wide edict for microservices was very much ahead of its time. Similarly, the vision of cloud computing was much more advanced and early than any of its competitors. Considering thi…

I believe the cloud computing vision came from Andy Jassy. In fact he wrote the original six pager for AWS. Equally impressive since Jassy isn't really a technologist either.

I hate this language of “so and so isn’t a technologist”. You don’t need to understand how a compiler works or grok segfaults to see the future.

It’s obvious if you’re running a big data center yourself that you’d rather pay someone else to do that, it’s just that no one wanted to take on that operational burden because it’s a pain. It doesn’t take a technologist to realize that arbitraging pain is where you make money. Everything after that is execution.

There are plenty of people who see the future who aren’t coders, they just usually can’t execute.

Re: Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video]

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Post by neom »

whoisjuan wrote: post #7
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #6

One thing I think is so extraordinary about Jeff Bezos is his uncanny technical prescience despite not really being a technologist. For example, the famous Steve Yegge "platforms rant" blog post [1] about how Bezos basically made a company-wide edict for microservices was very much ahead of its time. Similarly, the vision of cloud computing was much more advanced and early than any of its competitors. Considering thi…

I believe the cloud computing vision came from Andy Jassy. In fact he wrote the original six pager for AWS. Equally impressive since Jassy isn't really a technologist either.

Interesting, Sean O Sullivan who coined the phrase cloud, was a business analyst at compaq.

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hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #6

One thing I think is so extraordinary about Jeff Bezos is his uncanny technical prescience despite not really being a technologist. For example, the famous Steve Yegge "platforms rant" blog post [1] about how Bezos basically made a company-wide edict for microservices was very much ahead of its time. Similarly, the vision of cloud computing was much more advanced and early than any of its competitors. Considering thi…

Jeff's original request for S3 was, as I recall, along the lines of "We need malloc() for the Internet."
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