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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
20 VC: How To Say No Fast and Efficiently and Why UX Must Always Be At The Core Of What You Do with Sitar Teli, Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures
- ▶ 23:27 Sitar Teli City Mapper, Outlook, which I'm kind of amazed, but I'm actually using two Microsoft products at the moment.
- ▶ 23:27 Sitar Teli City Mapper, Outlook, which I'm kind of amazed, but I'm actually using two Microsoft products at the moment. 3 times in the scene
20 VC 095: How VCs Find Startups and How To Add Value Once Invested with David Teten @ ff Venture Capital
- ▶ 2:28 David Teten I was earning money through computer consulting and teaching people how to use Excel.
- ▶ 19:29 David Teten And Adapart was started because Joe was setting up a family office for himself and realized that family offices usually run on Excel and PDF and said this is sort of ludicrous.
20 VC 090: Balderton Capital's General Partner, Suranga Chandratillake on What It Takes To Be A Great CEO
- ▶ 11:12 Suranga Chandratilake If you listen, if you talk to any early Microsofty about, you know, how much Bill G, as he was known internally, the product, um, you know, it's just sort of legendary. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:25 Suranga Chandratilake Uh, Microsoft Word and the downloaded, um, Office products.
- ▶ 24:25 Suranga Chandratilake Uh, Microsoft Word and the downloaded, um, Office products.
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings Having started off his career with Microsoft, he then made the leap into venture with the world-renowned Axel Partners, where he was a board observer with the likes of Playfish, which were acquired by Electronic Arts, and he made seed…
- ▶ 3:01 Hussein Kanji Most of my life has been building companies, uh, whether inside of very large companies like Microsoft,
- ▶ 12:36 Hussein Kanji It's Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
FF 016: Chad Fowler, CTO @ Wunderlist, App Of The Year 2013
- ▶ 11:49 Chad Fowler App of the year and, and won so many other awards and, and ultimately were, uh, acquired by Microsoft.
- ▶ 18:48 Harry Stebbings And we have to touch on now the, the acquisition, um, a huge congratulations to you for that, and we've actually got a question from Carolina Bruchado, a friend of ours who was on the show from Atomico with Matthias, and Carolina wanted to…
- ▶ 23:10 Chad Fowler Uh, working at Microsoft, obviously, on Wunderlist. 3 times in the scene
FF 013: 'Make Bets And Believe In What You Are Doing' with James Borow @ Shift & Brand Networks
- ▶ 9:07 James Borow And so we were calling brands like Microsoft and, um, you know, original clients like Jamba Juice, companies like that, saying, listen, we can go ahead and help you advertise within this Facebook ecosystem in a programmatic way. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 070: Do Investors in California Outperform The Rest of The World with Eric ver Ploeg @ Recursive Capital
- ▶ 18:44 Eric Ver Ploeg I mean, people like to talk about how when Microsoft went public, it was a sub one billion dollar market cap company. 2 times in the scene
FF 012: Acquired by Microsoft for $200m with Javier Soltero @ Microsoft
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings You're listening to the 20 Minute VC with your host, Terry Stebbings, and on this incredible episode of Founders Friday, we welcome the amazing Javier Soltero, Corporate Vice President of Outlook at Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings You're listening to the 20 Minute VC with your host, Terry Stebbings, and on this incredible episode of Founders Friday, we welcome the amazing Javier Soltero, Corporate Vice President of Outlook at Microsoft.
- ▶ 18:13 Javier Soltero Thought I'd be doing an email company and much less be working at Microsoft as a result.
- ▶ 21:51 Harry Stebbings Two hundred million dollars to Microsoft. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:43 Harry Stebbings And then finally, the next five years for you and for accompli in Microsoft.
- ▶ 28:49 Javier Soltero So, uh, we are now Outlook Mobile. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital
- ▶ 25:47 unnamed speaker Most startup companies will have done this years ago, but I switched over from, from Exchange and Outlook to, to Google Apps, Google Mail, and it has been absolutely fantastic.
- ▶ 25:47 unnamed speaker Most startup companies will have done this years ago, but I switched over from, from Exchange and Outlook to, to Google Apps, Google Mail, and it has been absolutely fantastic.
- ▶ 26:02 unnamed speaker Um, the ability to, to search efficiently, to respond efficiently, the depth of the keyboard shortcuts, um, I feel like I'm twice as productive as I was in the old Microsoft products.
20 VC 067: Scaling Startups Into Unicorns with Atomico's Mattias Ljungman and Carolina Brochado
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings In that time, Matthias has been involved with exits including Supercell, sold to SoftBank, Six Wonder Kinder, acquired by Microsoft, the Climate Corporation, acquired by Monsanto, and Matthias works closely with a number of these portfolio…
20 VC 061: Roxanne Varza on Pitching A VC in 10 Minutes and Maximising Media Exposure For Your Startup
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Roxanne is currently the startup lead for Microsoft in France, running both Microsoft Ventures Paris and BizSpark, and prior to Microsoft, Roxanne was the editor of TechCrunch France and has been a guest author for the likes of The… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Roxanne is currently the startup lead for Microsoft in France, running both Microsoft Ventures Paris and BizSpark, and prior to Microsoft, Roxanne was the editor of TechCrunch France and has been a guest author for the likes of The…
- ▶ 9:39 Roxanne Varza So Microsoft actually has had a very long relationship with startups. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:47 Roxanne Varza So back in 2007, the program was called Ide, and it was launched in France, and then that grew to become BizSpark, and today it's present in 165 countries.
- ▶ 10:37 Roxanne Varza So that's the Microsoft Ventures program. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:27 Roxanne Varza Um, and that is really something that we're looking for and we're encouraging, even though obviously at the end of the day, if everybody was full stack Microsoft, it would be great, but it maybe actually wouldn't be great in the long term…
- ▶ 22:38 Roxanne Varza Um, with Microsoft, we actually do this annual event called Digi Girls, where we bring in girls that are usually about somewhere between 10 and 12, and we can show them, you know, we're trying to show them what they can do with a career in…
- ▶ 28:44 Harry Stebbings And then finally, the company from Microsoft Accelerator that you're most excited about.
- ▶ 29:16 Roxanne Varza When they came to Microsoft, it was one person, one algorithm. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 053: Inside Union Square Ventures with Jonathan Libov @ Union Square Ventures
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings But before we jump into today's episode, if you are stuck in the 20th century using Excel spreadsheets to keep track of all your candidate applications,
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 28:58 Harry Stebbings Then you simply export the information to other sources whenever you like, or if you need to escape Excel hell, Hiring Screen can help you import information from other files and databases directly.
20 VC 045: From Idea to Pitch with Alan Jones, Founding Investor @ Startmate
- ▶ 2:05 Alan Jones I went to work at Microsoft for a few years for things that became part of the MSN network, and then took what I imagined was a, uh, a huge risk, and joined, um,
20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
- ▶ 7:27 Charlie O'Donnell I've funded PowerPoints.
20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
- ▶ 2:38 Jon Staenberg And so, following Woody's advice, I went to Microsoft, and almost five years to the day, left, Whit called him up and said, ok, I did my tour, I'm ready to be a VC.
- ▶ 3:06 Harry Stebbings And what would you say was your most valuable takeaway from working at Microsoft?
- ▶ 4:31 Jon Staenberg And you have to bring people on, and that's, again, you asked what Microsoft taught me.
- ▶ 19:17 Jon Staenberg Um, but you know, working at Microsoft back in the day for me was just fabulous.
20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
- ▶ 6:40 Keith Teare It wasn't really for consumers at all, and, um, the experience was DOS-based, so there was no Windows internet, it was all DOS. 3 times in the scene