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Jan 2025
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Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AW...

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About this episode

Today, I’m talking with Matt Garman, the CEO of Amazon Web Services. Matt took over as CEO last June — you might recall that we had his predecessor Adam Selipsky on the show just over a year ago. That makes this episode terrific Decoder bait, since I love hearing how new CEOs will decide what to change and what to keep going after they’ve settled into their role.


Links: 

  • There’s no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky | Decoder
  • Amazon's AWS to invest $11 bln in Georgia to boost AI infrastructure | Reuters
  • Netflix’s Ted Sarandos responds to Jake Paul-Mike Tyson glitches | THR
  • The furious contest to unseat Nvidia as king of AI chips | NYT
  • Amazon’s moonshot plan to rival Nvidia in AI chips | Bloomberg
  • Amazon invests another $4 billion in Anthropic | The Verge
  • Why Netflix never goes down | The Verge
  • Sam Altman lowers the bar for AGI | The Verge


Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/24102212


Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.

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