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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 4:54 Jason Lemkin Unfortunately, the only way it worked is if you ran Word in a container, in a VM, which violated Microsoft's terms of use.
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
- ▶ 53:43 Fred Turner These models are terrible editing Word documents, but if you tell them to write Python to edit a Word document, they're great at it. 2 times in the scene
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:50 unnamed speaker Um, and not sit and type into word.
Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:16 Becca Lindquist From the Microsoft Word, right?
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:07 Anish Acharya Word and Docs and Spreadsheet and all of these other products around that core primitive, does OpenAI have the sort of prioritization, the resources, and the ambition in that direction to build all the feature surface around the primitive?
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:24 Max Junestrand If you are a litigator, and you are preparing a brief, and you are drafting that in Word, Lagora can help you do it, right?
- ▶ 42:05 Max Junestrand And it was our agent, our assistant, our tabular review, and our word add-in. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:16 unnamed speaker You get PowerPoint, you get Excel, you get Word, right?
Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:12 Alan Chang And you're trying to fill the page, and you couldn't think of anything to put, and you're like, put your special skills like Microsoft Word.
Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:28 Mike Cannon-Brookes Microsoft Word has a lot of buttons at the top of it. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- ▶ 49:33 Max Junestrand And so in your work, you're using Microsoft Word, you're using Outlook, and you use your document management system.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:42 Fabien Pinckaers Uh, everybody uses the same Word and Excel and Slides and PowerPoint and everything.
- ▶ 1:14:07 Fabien Pinckaers Um, after the complexity of operating system, we, we, we were purely technical, came the office with the complexity of user experience, Word, Excel, and so.
Jeff Wang: Sequoia Capital's $9BN Global Equities Fund on The Future for NVIDIA, Google & Meta|E1212 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:10 Aravind Srinivas Then, on the other hand, Word, Docs, Gmail, Google search.
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:30 Daniel Dines I think the science of things, the spring was just about to, I remember early days of tech crunch, so I started to, to be connected, actually, more with what happened in the Bay Area, from Romania than when I was in Seattle, when I was… 2 times in the scene
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:13 Girish Mathrubootham Like how you do in Word doc, right?
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:04 Erik Allebest I opened up Microsoft word and I started building wireframes in Microsoft word. 3 times in the scene
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:25 Guillermo Rauch The best example would be, I have a competitor to Microsoft Word coming to market, right? 2 times in the scene
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:36 Harry Stebbings Do you just do Word docs, Google docs?
Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:05 Emad Mostaque Because it's going into Word, it's going into workspace, you know, like, it helps already.
Oana Olteanu: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | 20VC #950 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:17 Harry Stebbings The other thing I would say is actually, I really like it when they send, not slide decks, because they can just be used as like crutches, but like a doc, and then I say send it in a Word doc, not a Google doc, because if you send it in a… 2 times in the scene
Michael Mauboussin: The Single Biggest Mistake Investors Make In Decision-Making | 20VC #945 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:41 Harry Stebbings So the way I do it is I send out actually a Word doc, not a Google doc, because that's obviously collaborative. 2 times in the scene
David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC #927 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:03 David Lieb Google, um, Microsoft Word.
Sam Taylor: How I Became VP of Sales at Loom; Lessons from Dropbox | 20VC #908 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:44 Harry Stebbings I've got us to kind of, um, should I create like word docs with like the script that I use, the core value props that I say to the different people within orgs?
Mike Chalfen: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | 20VC #904 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:37 Harry Stebbings And so what I always suggest is like a comment in an isolated word doc, then you, the founder can bring everyone's independent thoughts
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:04 Harry Stebbings I think one thing that I've also done is, like, being aware of the weight of words, I make people comment on Word docs, not on Google docs, because then they send them back to me the night before, and then I can pick on them in the meeting… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:08 Henri Pierre-Jacques So first it's in PowerPoint, not Word, because I don't believe in Word docs. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Qualtrics Founder, Ryan Smith on The 2 Hour Decision Whether To Sell Qualtrics for $8Bn in Cash, Why Tying Your Identity To Your Company Will Never Make You Happy and His Relationship To Risk, Wealth and Responsibility as a Result
- ▶ 34:39 Ryan Smith Lost the processor, the business to Microsoft Word, and they bundled, and then they sold to Novell, and it didn't work out the way that it probably could have, and they missed a window from being the biggest player, and Duff, having Duff…
20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom
- ▶ 29:13 Phil Libin So everyone had smartphones, but companies knew the old reality, which was, you know, Microsoft, like knew how to make Microsoft word. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 44:36 Shishir Mehrotra You need to open up Coda instead of your notepad, instead of Word, instead of your Google Doc, and take your meeting notes in it and have it be a delightful, thrilling experience.
20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
20VC: Alexa Von Tobel on Raising NYC's Largest Ever Female Led Fund , Portfolio Construction, Compression of Fundraising Timelines, Reserves Management & Personal Branding in Venture
- ▶ 1:38 Harry Stebbings But for me, the main reason I just love it is because it takes your audio, and it turns it into text, and so you can actually edit the text, almost as if it's a Word document, and remove the audio and the text that you don't want, and it's…
- ▶ 36:58 Harry Stebbings and so you can actually edit the text, almost as if it's a Word document, and remove the audio and the text that you don't want, and it's super simple, and just the best tool that I've seen for editing by far.
20VC: The Most Successful Companies Are Not Where Employees Work The Most, How To Know When To Promote From Below Or Bring in External Candidates & Why It Is A Unique Advantage To Be Building A Company Outside A Tech Hub with Rick Nucci, Founder & CEO @ G
- ▶ 1:37 Harry Stebbings But for me, the main reason I just love it is because it takes your audio, and it turns it into text, and so you can actually edit the text almost as if it's a Word document, and remove the audio and the text that you don't want, and it's…
- ▶ 39:39 Harry Stebbings and so you can actually edit the text, almost as if it's a Word document, and remove the audio and the text that you don't want, and it's super simple, and just the best tool that I've seen for editing by far.
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 1:55 Harry Stebbings and so you can actually edit the text, almost as if it's a Word document, and remove the audio and the text that you don't want, and it's super simple, and just the best tool that I've seen for editing by far.
- ▶ 56:00 Harry Stebbings and so you can actually edit the text, almost as if it's a Word document, and remove the audio and the text that you don't want, and it's super simple, and just the best tool that I've seen for editing by far.
20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings And so you can actually edit the text, almost as if it's a Word document, and remove the audio and the text that you don't want, and it's super simple, and just the best tool that I've seen for editing by far.
- ▶ 34:17 Harry Stebbings It's because it takes your audio, and it turns it into text, and so you can actually edit the text, almost as if it's a Word document, and remove the audio and the text that you don't want, and it's super simple, and just the best tool…
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 12:08 Dennis Mortensen Because it's obviously not in Microsoft Word, but if not that, where?
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.