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Interview: Hamilton Helmer & Chenyi Shi on How to Build an AWS-Like Second Business

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Oh, I'm sorry, before you keep going, is this gonna be a question of is this a scale economy or network economy? Yes. Oh damn. Go for it, Jenny,'cause I don't know the answer. We've stumped the experts. Who got the truth? Is it you, is it you, is it you Who got the truth now?

Is it you, is it you, is it you? Me down Another story on the way

Welcome to this special episode of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them. I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenthal. And we are your hosts. Eight years ago I pitched David on an idea for two different podcasts.

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