Flickr

Lenny's Podcast · Nov 20

Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield

Butterfield co-founded it, and he and Slack CTO Cal Henderson have worked together for 23 years since Flickr.

Founders · Apr 8

Working with Jeff Bezos

Butterfield said about half his day went to scaling databases, web servers, software and hardware instead of what was unique to Flickr. That comment inspired the idea of undifferentiated heavy lifting behind AWS.

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• Bezos spotted undifferentiated heavy lifting, which led to AWS▶ 55:00The early AWS press release and FAQ said a student in a dorm room should get the same world class computing infrastructure as any Amazon engineer.