Last fall, I had a unique opportunity to visit Amazon and learn more about their web services (AWS) strategy. From where I sit as a VC, it was obvious they were winning. You could see it in the number of startups that were building on their platform, and you could see it in the number of startups that were adding to their platform. All that said, at the time it still wasn’t obvious to me what Amazon’s strategy was to differentiate itself from the others certain to rush into the business — folks like IBM, Microsoft, and Google. Amazon suggested that the strategy was two-fold, and that it borrowed heavily from the ethos the company has […]
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