The AWS Morning show you never knew you wanted

Join Pete Cheslock and me as we discuss Progress’ recent acquisition of Chef. We touch upon the rise of configuration management and why tools like Chef and Puppet became so popular to begin with, what made the Chef community so special, why Corey—and the community at large—believes Chef got acquired, why Pete thinks open source is not a business model, startup capitalization tables and how VCs often make out like bandits, how for every billion-dollar IPO there’s hundreds of startups that don’t end up faring so well, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of September 16th, 2020.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 14th, 2020.

Join Pete Cheslock and me as we continue the Whiteboard Confessional series by examining Palantir’s recent S-1 filing. In this episode, we discuss how people who work at Palantir don’t really talk about working there, how Palantir used to give anyone $20,000 who referred engineers for certain roles, how Palantir’s employees have been selling their shares in a wide secondary market, Palantir’s massive $1.5 billion in cloud commitments over the next six years and how $1.49 billion of that are almost certainly on AWS, Palantir’s IPO strategy, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of September 9th, 2020.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of September 7, 2020.

Join Pete Cheslock and me as we continue the Whiteboard Confessional series with a look at SnowflakeDB’s recent S-1 filing. We touch upon the genesis of Snowflake and how it’s raised over $1 billion in venture capital, how Snowflake’s growth can be attributed to shortcomings on the AWS side, how the product is sticky and usage grows over time, the fascinating conflict of interest buried in Snowflake’s S-1 with respect to the CEO’s private jet, how it’s unlikely that “Susie from accounting” will make out like a bandit in the IPO but we’re rooting for her anyway, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of August 31st, 2020.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 31st, 2020.

Join Pete Cheslock and me as we continue the Whiteboard Confessional series with a look at Sumo Logic’s impending IPO and what’s hidden in their S-1. We talk about how companies in the logging and monitoring space eventually expand into other areas and lose sight of what made them famous in the first place, how strange executive compensation packages at pre-IPO companies are red flags, how startup execs often get to buy new boats while employees get to buy used Toyotas, how getting to an IPO is a major accomplishment that means you’ve survived, and more.

AWS Morning Brief Extras edition for the week of August 24th, 2020.

AWS Morning Brief for the week of August 24, 2020.