$100-Million Lessons from AWS and Lyft

Each month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways
that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young
entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial
entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school
professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these
high-change dynamics, provides insight.


Episode 1


In this episode, Sean and I discuss what innovation looks like in
2019: where it’s coming from, who gets funding for their ideas
and how, and why cloud has been so transformative in terms of the
business models for entrepreneurs and innovators. Sean also
shares his thoughts on the recent story about Lyft and Amazon’s
$8-million-per-month partnership for AWS services. (Spoiler
alert: he thinks it’s worth every penny.)


Sean Ammirati is a partner at Birchmere Ventures, which focuses
on both SaaS and consumer internet investments, as well as their
Birchmere Labs initiative. He is also an Adjunct Professor of
Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School,
and hosts a podcast series called “Agile Giants.”


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