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The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

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Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. We tried to sell inside Silicon Valley, so these were all tech companies. As we tried to sell outside the Valley, it is a very different world. We were mostly selling our product to engineers.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. We tried to sell inside Silicon Valley, so these were all tech companies. As we tried to sell outside the Valley, it is a very different world. We were mostly selling our product to engineers.

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ROBLOX ( www.roblox.com ) is a web/game startup in Silicon Valley that you have probably never heard of--unless you were an eight year old boy, in which case you're probably not qualified for this position. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. We have a deep technology stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es

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Amazon EC2. Silicon Roundabout. silicon valley. Silicon Valley Bank. Silicon Wadi. Jing Project. Screenflow Pixelmator. Snapz Pro X. SimpleCDN (commercial). CoralCDN (academic). Amazon CloudFront. Cloud Infrastructure. Google App Engine. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. Flexiscale.