Oct 19, 2026 · 1 hr 48 min · 10 segments
Just the three of them this week as Ian and Scott both return from road trips. Scott was at the Network X trade show in Vienna and he brings stories of Schnitzel, Kaiserschmarrn, and orderly road…
Ian MorrisHost
Scott BichenoHostPierrePanelist
And I think this might have come up in previous podcasts, but I'm going to reiterate it in case I haven't remembered correctly.
And they seem to have found quite a cost-efficient way of getting stuff up into space.
Why don't we do something with them when someone's not paying us to chuck their stuff up? What's the obvious thing to do? Put up communication satellites.
So it's almost like, and then it could turn into a primary thing like with AWS.
Amazon originally had tons of data center capacity, server capacity to run its ETL, and it suddenly realized that when it's not using it, it could be farming it out to people.
And then suddenly, AWS is a much bigger business, certainly in terms of profit, for Amazon than its original purpose.
And I think this might have come up in previous podcasts, but I'm going to reiterate it in case I haven't remembered correctly.
And they seem to have found quite a cost-efficient way of getting stuff up into space.
Why don't we do something with them when someone's not paying us to chuck their stuff up? What's the obvious thing to do? Put up communication satellites.
So it's almost like, and then it could turn into a primary thing like with AWS.
Amazon originally had tons of data center capacity, server capacity to run its ETL, and it suddenly realized that when it's not using it, it could be farming it out to people.
And then suddenly, AWS is a much bigger business, certainly in terms of profit, for Amazon than its original purpose.
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