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Hamilton Helmer

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

That was a different business, I'd say, and brutally hard.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

And it relied on some capabilities.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

So it shows why the capability thing doesn't get you there.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

I mean, yeah, some engineering at the time, analog was king there and digital was thought of as a backwater, but it was a very difficult.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

And now it's, of course, the source of their profitability.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

And like all these things, there were a few principal actors, a few leaders that had they not been there, it's hard to imagine it ever happening.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

Some innovative, hard-driving people.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

Let me just weigh in here for a sec.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

I agree with her sort of leaving it off because to have power, right, you have to have it versus all potential and existing competitors.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

The counterpositioning one is typically the type of power that you would have against incumbents.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

But it doesn't work against wannabes because they don't have the same problems.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

And so the one that you have to think hardest about is versus other companies that are doing it just like you.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

And so for Bulmar, it would be Texas Instruments doing calculators.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

And so that's why she left it off the list.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

So Uber Eats, right?

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

Right.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

But it's more plausible than different geographies.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

Ben, that's such a great example because it speaks to the point of the complication of the phenotypes, that until you peel back the covers, it just sounds, oh yeah, Uber Eats and Drivers sounds all the same.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

But when you start peeling it back, it may not be.

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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

So what that says is you have to have