Take Risks Outside Your Core Business
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Amazon Senior VP Piacentini, Diego discusses how Amazon Web Services (AWS) was born. He discusses how the retailer decided to take a risk and move away from its core competency, build APIs, and rent out server space during slower retail months. Piacentini also talks about how other online giants have now followed Amazon's lead.
Description
| Type of resource | moving image |
|---|---|
| Extent | 1 digital video file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Date created | November 3, 2010 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
| Sound content | sound |
| Color content | color |
Creators/Contributors
| Speaker | Piacentini, Diego |
|---|
Subjects
| Subject | Entrepreneurship |
|---|---|
| Subject | Business |
| Genre | Filmed lectures |
Bibliographic information
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/sf119dv1421 |
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| Location | SC1209 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (archivesref@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar, videorecordings
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