Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:23.9	The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. Welcome to a new year. We're starting 2025 off with a good one. Today I'm talking with Matt Garment,
1:32.3	the CEO of Amazon Web Services. Matt's actually the new CEO. He just took over last June.
1:37.8	He might recall that we had his predecessor, Adam Sulepsky, on the show, just over a year ago.
1:42.2	That makes this episode terrific Decoder bait, since I love
1:45.3	hearing how new CEOs will decide what to change and what to keep going after they've settled
1:49.9	into their role. And Matt has a really interesting perspective for that kind of conversation,
1:53.8	since he's been at Amazon for 20 years. He started as an intern and was AWS's original product
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