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Panos Panay

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And we have to work on, you know, kind of authorization and payment at the end of that, which is the trickiest part. And so, I'm not going to get into how, but that's the trickiest part. Yeah. And so, completing the task is the trick. Getting almost there... It's not that hard, but completing it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And so that's where you need the partner to be like, yeah, sure, we want this traffic, and we're going to go create the service and send it through. Great. If you don't, no problem. But the answer on why not do the API is just these relationships are different. Partners want to work in different ways. One of the things we are trying to do, and I'm really reengaging...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And so that's where you need the partner to be like, yeah, sure, we want this traffic, and we're going to go create the service and send it through. Great. If you don't, no problem. But the answer on why not do the API is just these relationships are different. Partners want to work in different ways. One of the things we are trying to do, and I'm really reengaging...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And so that's where you need the partner to be like, yeah, sure, we want this traffic, and we're going to go create the service and send it through. Great. If you don't, no problem. But the answer on why not do the API is just these relationships are different. Partners want to work in different ways. One of the things we are trying to do, and I'm really reengaging...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Alexa is, we want to open SDKs. Basically, we want to open the product up for developers to come in and do what they want. Like, come make it great. And if somebody asks to fix something in their house, we got it. We have a way to get you there.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Alexa is, we want to open SDKs. Basically, we want to open the product up for developers to come in and do what they want. Like, come make it great. And if somebody asks to fix something in their house, we got it. We have a way to get you there.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Alexa is, we want to open SDKs. Basically, we want to open the product up for developers to come in and do what they want. Like, come make it great. And if somebody asks to fix something in their house, we got it. We have a way to get you there.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

I think the partnerships are unique for sure. I think it's quite different. Remember, you always go back to your phone. The information is there. It's in the app. It's not like we're doing something on the side and doing it anonymously. And, you know, you don't have the customer info, I think, is one thing. Second thing is, like, when you have those challenging, like, let's use a Thumbtack example.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

I think the partnerships are unique for sure. I think it's quite different. Remember, you always go back to your phone. The information is there. It's in the app. It's not like we're doing something on the side and doing it anonymously. And, you know, you don't have the customer info, I think, is one thing. Second thing is, like, when you have those challenging, like, let's use a Thumbtack example.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

I think the partnerships are unique for sure. I think it's quite different. Remember, you always go back to your phone. The information is there. It's in the app. It's not like we're doing something on the side and doing it anonymously. And, you know, you don't have the customer info, I think, is one thing. Second thing is, like, when you have those challenging, like, let's use a Thumbtack example.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Let's stick there for a minute. If you don't have a Thumbtack account, the first time you do it, it'll just pop a QR code and say, here, connect. Authorize go. And then forever then you're going to fix things and Thumbtack's going to push you through it. There's just some simple things that you can do that makes the customer journey simple and get those connection points.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Let's stick there for a minute. If you don't have a Thumbtack account, the first time you do it, it'll just pop a QR code and say, here, connect. Authorize go. And then forever then you're going to fix things and Thumbtack's going to push you through it. There's just some simple things that you can do that makes the customer journey simple and get those connection points.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Let's stick there for a minute. If you don't have a Thumbtack account, the first time you do it, it'll just pop a QR code and say, here, connect. Authorize go. And then forever then you're going to fix things and Thumbtack's going to push you through it. There's just some simple things that you can do that makes the customer journey simple and get those connection points.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And once you do that, which is everything, you understand this setup is everything. removing that barrier to entry. Yeah. Like, to make Alexa Plus great, like, you've got to share your contacts, you're going to want to add your photos, you're going to want to connect your service providers. You know, it's a one-time kind of low barrier to entry go, and then you're all in.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And once you do that, which is everything, you understand this setup is everything. removing that barrier to entry. Yeah. Like, to make Alexa Plus great, like, you've got to share your contacts, you're going to want to add your photos, you're going to want to connect your service providers. You know, it's a one-time kind of low barrier to entry go, and then you're all in.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And once you do that, which is everything, you understand this setup is everything. removing that barrier to entry. Yeah. Like, to make Alexa Plus great, like, you've got to share your contacts, you're going to want to add your photos, you're going to want to connect your service providers. You know, it's a one-time kind of low barrier to entry go, and then you're all in.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And, you know, the partners... We don't talk about the deals with the partners or anything like that, but there's benefit on both sides. But at the end of the day, it's the right thing for the customer. I think there's a lot of partners out there that believe in that same philosophy, like let's get our customer to the end game.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And, you know, the partners... We don't talk about the deals with the partners or anything like that, but there's benefit on both sides. But at the end of the day, it's the right thing for the customer. I think there's a lot of partners out there that believe in that same philosophy, like let's get our customer to the end game.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

And, you know, the partners... We don't talk about the deals with the partners or anything like that, but there's benefit on both sides. But at the end of the day, it's the right thing for the customer. I think there's a lot of partners out there that believe in that same philosophy, like let's get our customer to the end game.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul

Yeah, but you have preferences. Customers have preferences. They know what to say.