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Hamilton Helmer

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

I mean, Netflix into streaming is reinvention.

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

It can happen.

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

It's hard to do.

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

You're usually counterpositioned because you've got a whole group of people that wants to do it the old way.

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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

And they have a lot of power in a company typically because they've got the P&L.

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

Yeah, that's very insightful.

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

That's exactly right.

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

Otherwise, you get swamped by agency problems.

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

And so the different needs, skills sharing, same skills or not same, but shared skills, you can call that category co-action.

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

And that's where all the action is.

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

Yeah.

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

That's AWS for sure, right?

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

Exactly.

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

AWS.

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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

Wait, so this is the lower right?

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

This is kind of the lower middle.

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

It's a bunch of not perfectly shared skills, but you know quite a bit about the stuff you need to do to get in there, but it's a different need.

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

And that accounts, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I think it's 90% of the value in the S&P 100 of the new stuff came from co-action.