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Robert Frederick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
158 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

So go open up another point of sale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

I guess you could call it a big box retailer problem where someone's roaming around the store looking for staff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

Well, our system notifies staff in real time where to go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

So one of the things that you kind of missed or on the background, which is kind of fun,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

is I actually was at MIT.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

I did have a startup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

That startup was acquired by Amazon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

Devicetalk.com became Amazon Anywhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

Amazon Anywhere had a mission, and that mission's focus, or the focus of that mission was make it possible for anyone, anywhere, at any time, on any device to be able to access information from Amazon services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

That turned into multiple different groups, but the one that I'm responsible for and the one where you can look me up and what I'm known for is Amazon Web Services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

So talk about a SaaS solution and coming up with the strategy for one of the most successful SaaS offerings out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

I was on the original team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

I'm taking that same concepts, those same capabilities, and we're getting developers to adopt customers, startups, Fortune 500s, Fortune 100s, to adopt our technology across many different verticals, just like we had adoption within the first few years of AWS.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

Does that make sense?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

I mean, so look.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

There are the Kindles, and there are the Echos, and there are the Fire TVs, and you are talking to someone who anticipated that actually happening.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

So as an argument and in defense...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

Yeah, it basically- Yeah, Robert, I'm sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1305 He Built AWS, Now Raised $9m at $30m Post for IoT Solution, $300k MRR

No problem.