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# Amazon — Page 2 of 2

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks where Jesse Robbins discusses Amazon.

## [The Origins of Amazon's Cloud Computing](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/origins-amazon-cloud-computing-gigaom.md)

*2010-06-18*

I told Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOM the actual origin of EC2. Chris Pinkham wanted to keep working from South Africa, and I, running ops at Amazon, was at first horrified by the idea.

## [Five Whys: Try to Learn a Dollar's Worth of Lesson for Every One You Spend in Failure](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/five-whys-jesse-robbins-quote-venturehacks.md)

*2008-11-17*

Eric Ries quoted me in his Venture Hacks guide to Five Whys: try to learn a dollar's worth of lesson for every dollar spent in failure. The line came from Amazon GameDay practice.

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