Azoma Pre-Reading / Listening

Azoma Pre-Reading / Listening

YouTubes to watch

• Azoma pitch / demo overview: https://youtu.be/E5jfunwu0EU?si=ZoGxNScN_-rhsi-t

• Graphite GEO overview: https://youtu.be/yeb0jt7h6NE?si=_tA8ShqFrp0yWttR

Amazon-specific AI Context

• How to Optimise for COSMO / RUFUS: 

• My presentation I give at speaking engagements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDLtnkO90QQ&t=46s&ab_channel=MaxSinclair 

• AM/PM Podcast: 

• Listen from 23 minutes in, before this is not relevant: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XVgQASM0PoVNpXJXEWLID?si=KEs70wtTS8eBfvF2a_eNgQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1FgnTBfUlzkeKt

Interesting Reads from the Industry 

• AI-Agents: 

• https://www.salesforce.com/uk/agentforce/what-are-ai-agents/  

• https://www.11x.ai/11x-manifesto

• AI in Retail:

• https://www.jasper.ai/blog/ai-in-retail 

Business theory that guides my thinking 

• Customer Love is all you need, Sam Altman: https://mastersofscale.com/sam-altman-why-customer-love-is-all-you-need/ 

• Competition is for losers, Peter Thiel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fx5Q8xGU8k&ab_channel=YCombinator 

• Enterprise Sales, Y Combinator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKYVl12VTA&ab_channel=YCombinator 

• Customer Obsession, Jeff Bezos: https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/annual/2016-Letter-to-Shareholders.pdf 

Podcasts to follow (and good places to start)

• The New Frontier (our podcast):

• The story of our company so far: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4iR4j5cDXwo6PUDO3bk5qY?si=2ulUQj9rSuKp24_DkZ63xg 

• The A16Z podcast:

• The first 15 minutes of this podcast is helpful context: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7GxUrAEAkjC9pzWfiFsXiS?si=BKlBcBAtQwWIyp2ST53BLg 

• How I Built This:

• Product/ Competition lessons from Woop: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0d2I3CNjJsBhPDE0cvdp6q?si=LG0NmOxoREy03t_XWl5RRw

• B2B SaaS lesson from Twillo: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7F9msVlb8mIa2Xb1V6OGuj?si=8CPDYc7LSTyKW2rtZCR6kQ 

• Acquired:

• Google: https://open.spotify.com/episode/64V71y4FpMlZ8Mymwu5Xts?si=7fnq2cyKRXeR7S8XbhWVjQ

• YC Podcast:

• Perplexity: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1iNkpUx2rwVJUrdy17xFzi?si=CKbXPowtS2qEjWNij55ZFA

• ChatGPT / Sam Altman: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5yHC2hp1Nx3lMUfNlzKfK8?si=D8J9wEBkRt-yY4nV3eu7uQ 

• Lenny's Podcast:

• Loveable https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DOJOSKKir2NW38IrGHT4G?si=xy3-qkOBQc2Sd-AWiUJ46Q

People / Newsletters to follow:

Amazon Rufus:

• https://ecommerce-ai.beehiiv.com/subscribe 

• https://www.billiondollarsellers.com/ 

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-bell-540403275/

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/oana-padurariu-b8b1b51a2/

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannalambadjieva/ 

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritujava

ChatGPT:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-blyskal

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-holland-seo

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/athena-hq/