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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud
- ▶ 9:13 David Politis Because in Microsoft, I used to have a tool that did XYZ for my users. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:18 David Politis I used to have a tool for SharePoint that could control how this document was being edited, and then how it was shared in the works.
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 28:53 Rebecca Lynn Because one time when Apple didn't buy anybody or Microsoft didn't pay anything if they did buy somebody.
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 17:07 Ryan Smith You know, why, for example, did Microsoft kind of so-called lose its way for a while?
20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
20VC: How To Assess Founder Psychology, Why Talking About Financial Returns In The First Meeting Is Always Wrong & How To Allocate Time Amongst A VC Portfolio with Kara Nortman, Partner @ Upfront Ventures
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings For Tinder, Cara also spent time at incredible institutions such as Microsoft, Battery Ventures, and Morgan Stanley.
- ▶ 4:38 Kara Nortman It was, you know, two years at Morgan Stanley, and their private equity group was like a professional education, you know, that spent 8000 hours a week in Excel modeling financial statements, and it gave me a really strong
20VC: Why Market Is More Important Than Team, The 4 Key Roles of A Board Member & Why Founders Get Market Sizing So Wrong with Rory O'Driscoll, Founding Partner @ Scale Venture Partners
- ▶ 9:56 Rory O'Driscoll Well, you know, Windows, the operating system is a 15 or twenty billion dollar a year business. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Who Will Own The Data? Is There An Incumbency Advantage in AI? When Will Artificial Super Intelligence Come To The Forefront with Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Director @ Glasswing Ventures
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings And before Fairhaven, she was a senior manager in the corporate development group at Microsoft, where she was responsible for sourcing and structuring and negotiating Microsoft's acquisitions and strategic investments. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:23 unnamed speaker Prior to that, I was at Microsoft 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:00 Harry Stebbings Do you think, then, for startups, there is a really significant data incumbency advantage to the likes of, say, your previous employer, Microsoft, or Google, or Facebook?
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings And before Square Enix, Clinton practiced law, representing clients including Microsoft, Sony, and Yahoo.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 18:00 Mamoon Hamid If you like Facebook and Microsoft, network effect businesses. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Don't Have To Have Operational Experience To Be A Good VC, Why There Is No Optimal Stage To Invest & Why VCs Should Focus on Reputation Ahead of Cash On Cash Returns with Lyon Wong, General Partner @ Spectrum 28
- ▶ 2:34 Leon Wong I went to the University of Waterloo, started in a fairly technical part of the space at Microsoft and Microsoft Research, designing search engines and search and storage.
- ▶ 2:34 Leon Wong I went to the University of Waterloo, started in a fairly technical part of the space at Microsoft and Microsoft Research, designing search engines and search and storage.
20VC: Greenfield Opportunities For Machine Learning, Why Massive Corporates Finally See It's Potential & Why VC's Investment Decision Making Process Needs To Change with James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta
- ▶ 19:30 James Cham It's that horrible little thing in Microsoft Office.
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 17:01 Ryan Sarver You know, Google, Facebook, Microsoft have kind of, like, collectively spent
20VC: How To Win The Strategic Process Of Fundraising and Optimising Co-Founder Relationships and Break Ups with Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO @ The Muse
- ▶ 24:59 Kathryn Minshew It's market validation, but more than that, when is the last time you heard someone say, we were competing with so-and-so, and then they got acquired by Microsoft, and wow, now we really can't keep up. 2 times in the scene
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 2:06 Dave McClure Microsoft and Intel and a few others from 94 to 98 grew that to about 20 people or so.
- ▶ 19:00 Dave McClure Um, initially when I started at PayPal, Dave Sachs was my boss who went on to run Yammer, which got acquired by Microsoft for about a billion bucks. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Data Collective's Matt Ocko on Why "All Fund Size Models Are Wrong" and The Lifecycle of Current Venture Funds Is Inefficient?
20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 11:38 Harry Stebbings Yeah, it seemed like two years ago, Ben Evans did the, the PowerPoint on the phone being the sun, you know, central to our ecosystem, and now we're saying, when's it leaving?
- ▶ 21:56 Sean Flynn To build once and then distribute across multiple voice platforms across both Amazon Echo and Alexa, as well as Siri, as well as Microsoft and Cortana.
20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 11:31 Harry Stebbings David asks, what is your take on how AI startups will interact with the giant corporates, also investing heavily into AI research, meaning your Googles, Facebooks, Microsofts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:59 Dennis Mortensen A little bit more accurate, whether that is playing around with a data set in Excel, and you create a pivot table, or whether that is submitting your receipts, or creating an invoice.
- ▶ 17:54 Dennis Mortensen This is before the Microsoft and Facebook and Google announcements.
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 17:48 Nabeel Hyatt I started working on Excel spreadsheets with them about what it would cost to roll out a sales, sales and marketing plan,
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight
- ▶ 23:35 Byron Deeter So I use, uh, clutter from Microsoft and same later, and it strips out a lot of the, the, the junk in the inbox and saves a ton of time.
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 14:22 Aydin Senkut I mean, look at Google, look at Facebook, look at Microsoft, uh, in the nineties, look at Apple in 2000, look at Google and Facebook beyond 2005.
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings But prior to co-founding White Star, he worked at Facebook and led the international expansion of the company's business development, platform, and developer network groups, and previously held leadership roles in the US and Europe with…
- ▶ 3:13 Christian Hernandez I went to Microsoft, which is not a high growth environment, but I joined the windows mobile group, which was the fastest growing business without within Microsoft, a mobile geek from day one. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:19 Harry Stebbings And then you've had amazing, amazing career, you know, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, now creating Whitestar.
20 VC: Niccolo De Masi @ Glu Mobile on Private Market Valuations, Being A Public Market CEO & The Trends Of Mobile Gaming
- ▶ 7:47 Niccolo De Masi And a lot of people in Silicon Valley thought that I was out there in 2010 believing that there would be more than the iPhone because they wrongly believed that like the PC went all Windows, phones would go all iOS.
- ▶ 10:01 Niccolo De Masi So if you look at companies like Microsoft and Apple that IPO, you know, in the eighties, they were done at an early stage and it was well recognized that they were, uh, you know, I wouldn't say risky bets, but they were growth stage…