Chiming in on Slack with Sid Rao

Sid Rao is the GM of Amazon Chime, AWS’ communications platform for voice and video calls. Prior to joining AWS, Sid worked at CTI Group, serving as the company’s CTO for a decade before joining its board of directors. Over the years, Sid’s worn many other hats, including working as a consultant for DaVinci Capital and a program manager at Microsoft. He was also the founder and vice president of R&D at I/O Medical Systems, makers of a device that could acquire multiple physiological indicators using a tablet device. Join Corey and Sid as they discuss the newly announced Amazon Chime and Slack and partnership and what it means for virtual meetings, where the optimal place to host a video meeting between a user in New York City and a user in Taiwan is, how chat becomes exceptionally difficult when you’re trying to scale to hundreds of thousands of users, how the Amazon Chime team responds to user feedback, how Amazon’s own usage of Chime doubled in recent months and Chime scaled without a hitch, why the Chime team focused on and perfected the app’s plumbing first and how it’s now shifting its attention to polishing the porcelain, why the Chime interface displays a region label, what Sid thinks the number one misunderstanding about Chime is, and more.