Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B Today this mentality is hardwired into the company. Focus on the Things that Don’t Change.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 24, 2018

When new hires joined the APAC Alliance, they would fly to our San Francisco or Dublin offices for two weeks of onboarding, as it’s an awesome way to get immersed in our company culture, meeting Intercom leadership and new colleagues while experiencing our values first hand. You’re free to rock your pyjamas all day long if you please.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

How Much Does Culture Matter, And How Do You Build One That Pays Dividends? We hear this everywhere — culture is everything. Company culture is a difficult thing to get right because it’s intangible, yet you have to establish it early. What does company culture do for a company?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

This idea of content fragmentation and my data is in 3 or 5 or 10 different places is now being absolutely kind of amplified and becoming front and center for a lot of companies. How do you protect the pre-release patent document that you need to be able to share with your partners? Is AWS in the lead? Is the Google in the lead?”

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It doesn’t matter even if it’s AWS’s fault or whoever’s fault, it doesn’t matter, you’re mission critical. It’s probably one of the smartest things that the company did from day one. As founders, we forget also it’s a real important point what it means to be mission critical.

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