Hey Amazon: Time to Spin Out AWS, Okay?? | Ammirati on Innovation

The Big Themes:



ServiceNow vs. IBM: The market cap of
ServiceNow, with $4 billion in revenue, is closing in on that
of IBM, which is a 115-year-old company with $75 billion in
revenue! Meanwhile, Bill ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott teams up
with IBM to unleash AI on IT. Go figure!


The markets continue to go up: The economy at
large is finding its sea legs – but it’s always about the
future.


Let's figure out what customers want:
Customers want solutions and they want solutions for the
businesses that they're in, and the industries that they
operate in.


Not the dream job it once was: Young people
feel that working at Facebook today is about as appealing at
working for a tobacco company. For top students at Carnegie
Mellon, the dream job is with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.



 


The Big Quotes:


“It’s impossible to imagine a CEO on the golf course at Augusta
saying, ‘I really need to fix my cloud infrastructure, but I
don't really care as much about my ERP solution.’ That’s just not
how they think!”


 


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