Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group and a big celebrity at the AWS circles well known for his sense of humor and unrelenting focus on making some good fun of the cloud providers.
In our interview, we are learning Corey’s background, how The Duckbill Group got started, and how he runs the media side of his business. As usual, we talked about bootstrapping and running consulting services while building a product.
This episode was originally published on the Metacast podcast, episode 32.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:49 - Meet Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist
06:16 - What does a cloud economist do?
08:08 - From sysadmin to independent consultant
11:53 - Starting The Duckbill Group
13:00 - Choosing a business partner
15:59 - Finding your authentic voice on social media
17:08 - Route 53 as a database and early Twitter fame
19:01 - Audience growth and depth of engagement
22:15 - Navigating humor and legal boundaries
25:16 - Naming The Duckbill Group
25:52 - Team structure and bootstrapping a services business
27:01 - Why cloud cost optimization is a people problem
30:28 - Bootstrapping and managing founder psychology
32:59 - Who does what at The Duckbill Group
34:04 - Producing a podcast and outsourcing operations
36:30 - Getting first customers through your network
39:47 - Evolution of Corey's media empire
42:55 - Sponsorship revenue and the media business model
43:44 - Starting the Screaming in the Cloud podcast
49:09 - Attributing business value to content
51:59 - Usage-based vs. subscription pricing
56:09 - Advice for bootstrap founders on consulting
57:49 - The power of niching down
1:01:11 - Comparing AWS, GCP, and Azure
1:05:54 - AWS losing its customer obsession
1:06:33 - Using ChatGPT for content creation
1:09:32 - Book recommendations and how Corey learns
1:11:50 - Keeping up with the pace of AWS releases
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