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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Office comes up
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 48:18 Rory O'Driscoll Of the last couple of decades, someone like Microsoft was able to take it, you know, just use price rootlessly because there was zero cost of goods sold, and they just bundled the browser in with the operating system, bundled all Office in…
Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:56 unnamed speaker Microsoft in the nineties, they dominated, yeah, they were the operating system, so they dominated broad horizontal, um, off, you know, application software for the consumer and the individual knowledge worker, the office suite. 2 times in the scene
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:54 Rory O'Driscoll It was email, you know, and effectively a docs and a spreadsheet, which just gnawed away at the bottom end of the Microsoft Office Suite. 2 times in the scene
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:51 Gokul Rajaram As you know, Microsoft tried to crush Intuit again and again and again, back in the eighties and nineties with bundling everything into office, but Intuit TurboTax survived and thrived.
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:56 Alex Rampell It's called Microsoft Office, right?
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:40 Maor Shlomo Um, Microsoft building like some vibe coding tools on top of like the, the office and whatever.
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:20 Jason Lemkin I don't even know where my key is to Microsoft Office. 2 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:01 unnamed speaker I mean, Microsoft, I think today said they're moving not just parts of office to Anthropic, but that it is the default choice for several other products and that Microsoft today said several months ago, they told their teams to start using…
How LP Deployment to Venture Will Change in 2025 & Are Endowment Funds in Trouble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:57 Rory O'Driscoll And, you know, picking two that are very opposite in terms of outcome, you know, when my, no one even remembers to the nearest basis point, how much dilution Microsoft took to buy the elements that became Microsoft Office.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:40 Fabien Pinckaers Management software will be like Office.
- ▶ 1:14:19 Fabien Pinckaers Fast forward today, it's only Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:58 Dan Fougere I feel like it's almost like when the, when the Microsoft office suite came out, that's how old I am.
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:55 Harry Stebbings oh, we have a better user experience, we've got a better design, and I'm just going, I get it, but the trouble is you don't have distribution, and what I worry about is distribution trumps product in this world, which is where Microsoft… 4 times in the scene
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:40 Girish Mathrubootham Imagine going to Microsoft office and, uh, and, and asking for a feature, like when are you going to get it?
Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:26 unnamed speaker When I could just have all in one here, same thing with like Google sheets and Google docs versus office, you know, originally it was like, it is definitely not Google spreadsheets are not better than Microsoft Excel, like period from a…
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:38 Chris Dixon You didn't care if you got Compaq or Dell as long as you had Windows and Office, right?
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:58 Howie Liu Um, when you think about like Microsoft's co-pilot offering, it's going to add significant ARPU to every single seat of office, which is a massive install base, right?
- ▶ 35:16 Howie Liu Uh, I'm going to go with, you know, office, um, and I'm going to buy it all together as a bundle.
Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:14 Glen Coates Bing's dead, and like they've literally got nothing to lose, and they've got a business that is completely defensible in other revenue streams like Office and Windows, and all the other stuff they do.
Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:29 Wesley Chan Like, you know, like you look at Photoshop, you look at Office and look at these other companies.
Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:59 Des Traynor So I think the easiest thing for a company like Miro to do, I think is to get notions about becoming Microsoft Office and start starting to branch out and becoming a document editor and all that sort of stuff, because everyone tells you…
20VC: Rippling's Parker Conrad on Why The VC/Founder Marriage Analogy is Weird, Why The Notion of Focus, Focus, Focus is Overrated, Why Narrow Point Solutions Are Not Best in Class Products & The Rise of the "Compound Startup"
- ▶ 14:07 Parker Conrad If they had built a set of productivity tools, like what you see with Notion or Coda, to sort of compete directly against the Office suite.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 3:23 Shishir Mehrotra I worked on Office, Windows, and then SQL Server, a wide variety of different projects in lots of different spaces.
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 22:31 unnamed speaker And if you look at the kind of products that Microsoft builds that are, you know, Microsoft's famous for office, for example, I think it's probably the canonical example. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 10:22 Vlad Magdalin I'd probably be working at Microsoft maybe on, like, Office, like my brother.
20 VC 090: Balderton Capital's General Partner, Suranga Chandratillake on What It Takes To Be A Great CEO
- ▶ 24:25 Suranga Chandratilake Uh, Microsoft Word and the downloaded, um, Office products.
20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures
- ▶ 5:39 Jonathan Libov In prior businesses like, ah, Microsoft Office or Windows, um, or any other software that came packaged in a CD or even a box, 2 times in the scene