Finding the Next Great Opportunity

Head of Amazon Web Services on Finding the Next Great Opportunity

First Round Capital - The Review
April 17, 2013

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With the frequency that you hear “cloud computing” mentioned at conferences and in the tech press, you might believe it’s just a tired buzzword that salesmen use to induce boring people to get excited about buying enterprise services.


James Hamilton wants to convince you otherwise. He approaches technical innovation from a skeptical perspective, with a flair for hands-on empiricism. As a Vice President and Distinguished Engineer on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team, he’s been hard at work building the basic technology of cloud computing before the first impeccably coiffed consultant first uttered the phrase.

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