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Data and Big Data • Legacy Makes Money Too • The Challenge • The Process • Teams Matter • Innovation Case Studies: Making Something From Something Else • Amazon Web Services • Netflix
• Leverage billing data • Leverage aggregated, anonymous user data • Create new business units to sell analytics to 3rd parties • Leverage agreements with carriers • Provide standardized data sources for 3rd parties • Leverage algorithms to provide additional layers of value
their business. • Their goal was NOT to replicate the enterprise datacenter • Projected to drive $3.8B in revenue in 2013 • Has become the standard • For API development • For service standardization • For scale out • Has done all of this with a paltry 99.95% uptime SLA
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon http://www.amazon.com/The-Everything-Store-Bezos-Amazon- ebook/dp/B00BWQW73E “Compared to tech's other elite innovators--Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg--Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing.”
an IPO in 2002 at $15/share, currently trading at ~$232/share • By 2007 had shipped >1B DVDs by mail to >10M subscribers • Also in 2007 introduced internet streaming of that same content • Today, Netflix accounts for 25% of all internet bandwidth in the US • They are 100% hosted on AWS, who is also one of their biggest competitors
it’s a business model and consumption innovator • Netflix isn’t a technology company; it’s a content creation and distribution company THEY WEREN’T AFRAID TO SKATE TO WHERE THE PUCK WAS HEADED
Rainbow Mansion • Find people who want to change the world • Put them together • Remove barriers: conservatism, insecurity, fear of failure • Reward success AND celebrate failure • Watch what happens