Karim Atiyeh
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Oct
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And my hunch was that
would be to send them an I'm sorry response.
And I'm like, okay, we can't really do this.
What do we have to do here?
And the way we responded to it is just trying to explain in very logical terms what we were doing and why it was good for consumers and why they should care, which was really funny.
But one of those crazy experiences was we'd get a letter from Amazon around how we were supposedly compromising the security of the
accounts of their users.
And I thought it was really funny at the time because a lot of the product that we had built was one on AWS and two with the help of a lot of AWS architects in order to make sure that it was built as well as possible and as secure as possible for the users.
So our response was, great, we'd be happy to get on a call with your team that is helping us build this in the most secure way possible.
And we got on a call with, I think it was either Andy Jassy or someone very senior on his team at the time when he was running AWS to just go through our architecture and how we were building this.
It seemed to me on the call that they were actually very excited about what we were building.
It was like, this is really cool.
We liked this and we ended up the call with this understanding that AWS was actually really happy with us and that our problem was with Amazon retail.
It ended up getting resolved, but just as a really tiny company being attacked or attacked
attacked by the legal teams of really massive companies feels really, really scary at the time, but in a way like also validating.
If you solve really scary, small problems, the reward is scary, bigger problems and it never stops.
Oh, 100%.
If you're doing anything that's correct or right, people are going to try to kill you multiple times.
What's the key to not being killed?
Perseverance.
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