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Hamilton Helmer

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

Go to business definition.

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

Think very hard about where your power umbrella is, too, that if it does extend into an area you're considering to go there because it's really attractive.

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

And then the third one is that if you don't have anything there and you still want to do something new, co-action's the name of the game, but understand that you're now into invention of a new business.

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

And with all the things around it, risk, adaptation, you know, everything, and entrepreneurs matter.

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

So Jenny, that was such an important point about how if you miss a business definition, I'm going to ask you for an example.

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

Can you think of a good example of companies that didn't understand the full extent of their business and got taken out as a result of it?

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

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

Who was that?

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

Balmar never heard of him, right?

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

My take of Blockbuster is if they'd done a red envelope business a year earlier, Netflix wouldn't have survived.

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

Oh, I love that.

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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

Right.

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

So do either of you have diners clubs cards?

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

I do not.

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

No.

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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 so they missed it.

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

Yep.