3. Scaled the site to 20B+ page
views a month
Largest independent robo-advisor in
the world. Over $8B in managed
assets.
Founding engineer, helped build entire
insurance company on AWS in 3
months.
5. Cloudfront Lambda ECS Poly,
Rekognition,
Lex
RDS Route53 Elastic
Beanstalk
AWS Data
Pipeline
Kinesis
Startups Have Evolved
6. “The reality, of course, today
is that if you come up with a
great idea you don't get to go
quickly to a successful
product. There's a lot of
undifferentiated heavy lifting
that stands between your idea
and that success."
-Jeff Bezos
13. "One day we made it to the front page of reddit, our
site crashed, and I called Paul after hours freaking out.
He helped us figure out our major bottlenecks and now
we scale to the moon!!!"
Jordan Patapoff
Co-Founder
16. As Founders
Started or been early at 80 companies
17 CEOs or Co-Founders
Raised more than $3.69B
32 exits
5 companies went public
As Investors
17 have been VCs or corp dev
Invested more than $1.3B in 403 companies
65 exits of more than $4.9B with 6 IPOs
18. Raising Money 101
Startup Recruiting on a Budget
Create your Go-To-Market strategy (w/ Amazon)
Networking Roundtables
When and how to Adopt micro services
Serverless real time analytics
Manual vs Automation: When to start automating your processes
Hands on lab: Introduction to Deep Learning with MXNet
Security Crash Course & Best practices !0.0.0.0/0
Production Readiness Review: How to stop bad things from happening
Don’t Overspend! Cost optimization best practices to reduce your burn
Hands on lab: Building a deep learning twitter bot using Recognition
BUSINESS
ARCHITECTURE
OPERATIONS
26. Speech Recognition & Natural
Language Understanding
Amazon Lex
Automatic Speech Recognition
Natural Language Understanding
“What’s the weather
forecast?”
Weather
Forecast
27. Speech Recognition & Natural
Language Understanding
Amazon Lex
Automatic Speech Recognition
Natural Language Understanding
“What’s the weather
forecast?”
“It will be sunny
and 25°C”
Weather
Forecast
28. “With Amazon Polly our users
benefit from the most lifelike Text-
to-Speech voices available on the
market.”
Severin Hacker
CTO, Duolingo
Spoken language crucial for language learning
Accurate pronunciation matters
Faster iteration thanks to TTS
As good as natural human speech
34. One-Click
Deep Learning
AWS Deep Learning AMIs
Amazon Linux & Ubuntu
Up to~40k CUDA cores
Apache MXNet
TensorFlow
Theano
Keras
Caffe
CNTK
Torch
Pre-configured CUDA drivers
Anaconda, Python3
Out-of-the-box Tutorials
Available in the AWS Marketplace