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Hamilton Helmer

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

And so if you're in this place where you can't build on your current power, you just have to realize, as you were saying before, Ben, you're back in event space.

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

And yeah, you can build on current capabilities, but that's sort of table stakes, you know?

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

You're into that level of risk.

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

And like all those things, it's adaptive.

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

You know, you sort of try stuff and move forward in a positive 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

Brutally honest and very granular.

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

I love it.

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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

Did you write that down, Cheney?

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

I think we should remember all that.

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

Right, right, right.

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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

No, I think you nailed it.

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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

I just want to underline what Chinese rightfully kind of pulled that out as kind of a key point here is that the risk level of doing something that's under your current power umbrella or not

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

The difference is gigantic.

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

So that should be your starting point because it is absolutely gigantic.

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

And I think since we're back into invention, and I am a huge fan of Amazon, the fact that they've been able to do what they do, I would argue that they couldn't have done it if they weren't willing to take the risk and have some failures, right?

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

Absolutely.