Episode · a16z Podcast · 2026-10-08

Books mentioned on Building the Cloud for an Agentic World | AWS CEO Matt Garman

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a16z’s Raghu Raghuram sits down with AWS CEO Matt Garman to discuss how AI is reshaping the cloud, from the needs of AI-native startups to infrastructure increasingly designed for agents.

Matt Garman discussed The Goal by Elle Kennedy.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   The Goal

   Elle Kennedy · at 27:56

   The Goal by Elle Kennedy is a popular business and manufacturing novel structured around the theory of constraints.

   Discussed

   “we read the goal and have read the goal right and so it turns out there's never one constraint there's always just the latest constraint”

   Matt Garman Building the Cloud for an Agentic World | AWS CEO Matt Garman 2026-10-08 ▶ Play 27:03

   Where to get it

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