Is This a Big Idea?

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The notion of a web server was a very new thing. And importantly, it was basically all static. There were HTML pages and you could put those up on a server so that somebody using a browser could get that static page back. But this notion of like code executes when you hit a URL to dynamically generate a page, that really wasn't happening yet. It kind of just relied on whatever book store put up that page to make sure it was updated with what's actually in the store. So Jeff is like, man, this is a big idea. Somebody's going to figure this out.

Amazon. No company has impacted the internet — and all of modern life — more than this one. We’ve waited seven years to do this episode, and are so, so excited to finally dive into every nook and cranny of this legendary company. And of course because we’re Acquired and this is Amazon, we couldn’t contain it all to just one episode… even a 4+ hour one! So today we focus on Amazon.com the retail business, and we’ll have another full episode on AWS coming soon. And because all great series are trilogies, to fully understand Amazon we highly recommend starting first with our previous episode on Walmart, which truly is the giant’s shoulder that Jeff Bezos stood upon. Let’s go!!

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