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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
20VC: Inside The World's Leading Crypto Fund, The Future Exit Environment for Crypto Assets & The Beauty Of Benevolent Dictatorship with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder @ Polychain Capital
- ▶ 13:51 Olaf Carlson Wee So for example, with Filecoin, you could look at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Dropbox, say, and add that all up and see what's kind of the current addressable market for Filecoin.
20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Well, I'm thrilled to be featuring Excel this week, and joining me in the hot seat from Excel, we have Rich Wong, general partner and the man behind investments in the likes of Rovio, which IPO'd earlier this year, SwiftKey, which was…
- ▶ 4:02 Rich Wong And I think that was relatively logical and empirical in that, you know, most of the big outcomes of the previous era, whether in the software, the internet, or the networking space, were all largely, Microsoft being obviously the…
20VC: Why Convertible Notes Are Ridiculous, Why Party Rounds Are Bad For Both Founder and Investor & Why Pro-Rata Rights Are A Mess with David Waxman, Founding Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures
- ▶ 1:22 Harry Stebbings An early pioneer in personalization and privacy technology, which he sold to Microsoft in 1998.
20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- ▶ 3:27 Alex Rampell But I got a Mac, and this was, I was born in 1981, so I got a Mac probably in the late eighties, maybe 1987, 1988, and all of the software out there was for Windows.
- ▶ 6:47 Alex Rampell So when I was a little kid, I would say, ah, like, Microsoft Outlook is slow, and this was literally the premise of a lot of my shareware products.
- ▶ 9:12 Alex Rampell Like, the big gorilla 20 years ago was Microsoft, and everybody feared Microsoft and 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:19 Alex Rampell All these things were focused on Microsoft and their Windows monopoly, but you didn't really talk about like five other monopolies back then.
- ▶ 11:10 Alex Rampell And the thing that's also different about this era, I think, versus the Microsoft era, is that Microsoft said, oh, the mobile phone is stupid, the iPhone is overpriced. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 6:28 Paul Buchheit So I don't know if you know about, about Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:14 Paul Buchheit And I kind of told him, I was like, you know, there's just like one of me and Microsoft probably has like hundreds of people working on this.
- ▶ 9:33 Paul Buchheit And literally just get users one at a time, and so for some of them, they would say, essentially, it has to do all the things Outlook does,
20VC: YC's Ali Rowghani on Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull and Jack Dorsey & The 3 Traits All Truly Successful Leaders Share
- ▶ 8:23 Ali Rowghani And so, I started to sort of polish my PowerPoint presentation in preparation for Steve. 8 times in the scene
20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
- ▶ 23:34 Mario Schlosser He's seen everything on the political sides, in, in the business sides, um, started companies by himself before, uh, sued Bill Gates at Microsoft back in the days, you know, he was the one who let the, the government's lawsuit under…
20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Prior to Index, Mike was a director at Cloud.com, which was acquired by Citrix, and Store Simple, acquired by Microsoft.
- ▶ 20:56 Mike Volpi And many of those still run good old-fashioned on-premise software running on Windows or DOS or something like that.
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 22:04 Daniel Gross An Oracle or a MySQL, that is to say, a company that empowers all the verticals, because I think the incumbents today, Google and Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, to some extent, are far less naive than the incumbents in Oracle's time, and so…
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 31:17 Jason Calacanis We go there, we sit, we eat some food, we talk about the book, then we walk home, maybe get a coffee, and sit and write a little bit more, go back to my house, and we'd organize the table of contents in an Excel spreadsheet, and then we'd…
20VC: When Should CEOs Ask Their VC For Help, When Do Companies Really Need A Board & What The Series A Expansion Means For Startups with Max Gazor, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 21:16 Max Gazor And a couple of years later, the company was acquired for a lot of money by Microsoft actually, and she did very well.
- ▶ 24:38 Max Gazor But in particular, the investment thesis that we got excited about was this concept of the unbundling of Excel, and we felt like Airtable could become the all-in-one collaboration platform that could kind of redefine how consumers think…
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 24:42 Peter Fenton It's tragic that most of the board meetings that are practiced in the Silicon Valley involve over 10 PowerPoint slides. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How Both Founders & GPs Should Construct Their Pitch, Why VCs Are Eternal Optimists & What Makes The Best Post-Investment VC/Founder Relationship with Brian Ascher, Partner @ Venrock
- ▶ 6:19 Brian Ascher They're not only useful for fundraising, but the PowerPoint deck has become the de facto business plan.
20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
- ▶ 9:44 Josh Wolfe What was the comp for Microsoft before it existed?
- ▶ 11:59 Josh Wolfe Was on the board of besides Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.
- ▶ 17:24 Josh Wolfe And so, if you can do the kinds of things that you used to see in the Bell Labs and the Intels and the IBMs and even Microsoft researchers,
20VC: How LPs Can Add Strategic Value To Portfolio Companies & Why Real Estate Is On Every Whiteboard In Silicon Valley with Brendan Wallace, Co-Founder @ Fifth Wall
- ▶ 29:11 Brendan Wallace They are competing with my old job at Blackstone, crunching numbers in Excel and telling my boss what the role schedule is for some office building.
20VC: Investing; A Game Of Access Or Picking, Why Technical DD At Seed Is Irrelevant & Why A Contrarian Mindset Does Not Always Lead To Optimal Returns with Leo Polovets, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- ▶ 20:26 Leo Polovets I think he works at Microsoft, but he kind of publishes a weekly blog post on basically summarizing all of the materials he's read on a famous investor.
20VC: Why Young VCs Must Have Cheque Writing Ability & Why Corporate VC Is The Best Training Ground For New VCs with Nagraj Kashyap @ Microsoft Ventures
- ▶ 0:19 Harry Stebbings Now, Nagrash is the head of Microsoft Ventures, the early stage investment arm of Microsoft, and they've made investments in the likes of 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 Harry Stebbings Um, and now obviously you're at Microsoft Ventures, and so I do want to start with a question from, from one of the partners, uh, with you at Microsoft and, and the man who introduced us, Matt. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 Harry Stebbings Is that because the fiduciary responsibility of LPs is different to you now as a corporate with Microsoft as the LP?
- ▶ 15:41 Nagraj Kashyap The way to think of LP relations, obviously, is a single LP, so Microsoft is the sole source of funds for, for the group, and that means that we have to report to Microsoft. 6 times in the scene
20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
- ▶ 27:31 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I cannot wait to bring you Wednesday's episode with Nagraj Cash App at Microsoft.
20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam
- ▶ 21:15 Kevin Chou But there's actually a lot of money being put into this, and the companies that are able to run esports, whether it's League of Legends, Activision, EA, Microsoft, these are all very deep-pocketed companies and are incredibly profitable,…
20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software
20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+
- ▶ 16:08 Harry Stebbings 400 K of dollars of Amidzad money into Danger, and eight years later, you received a two extra ton, despite the sale for five hundred million to Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- ▶ 1:30 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:25 Ted Blosser Uh, they can help us from a coaching perspective and even Charlie Songhurst, who actually understood, uh, enterprise extremely well from his time at Microsoft.
- ▶ 15:40 Ted Blosser And I remember even when we went public, he put posters around the office, uh, talking about companies that were built for the longterm, like Apple and IBM and Microsoft.
- ▶ 25:19 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Preparing For The Next Big Trend, Why Conversational Will Be The Next Big Thing & How Entrepreneurs Should View Market Size with Sarah Guo @ Greylock Partners
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:35 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 1:21 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Sirius Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook, which automatically updates activities in Salesforce so you don't have to,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:15 Harry Stebbings The plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Test The Strength Of Co-Founder Relations, The Dangers Of Raising A Large Series A & Why The Biggest Challenge For Consumer Companies Is Finding The Second Big Hit with Rishi Garg, Partner @ Mayfield Fund
- ▶ 1:33 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros to use Gmail and Outlook, which automatically updates activities in Salesforce so you don't have to. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:08 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund
- ▶ 1:39 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Sirius Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:18 Harry Stebbings The plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Building An AI Company For The Long Term? How Humans & Machine Learning Can Work Together? What Applications Are The Conversational Interface Best Suited To with Maran Nelson, Founder & CEO @ Clara Labs
- ▶ 1:31 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine, though, for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:27 Harry Stebbings The plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Should Not Invest From Patterns, Why No Good Business Was Built As An Analogy Of Another & Why The Rise Of The 'Celebrity Investor' Is Concerning with Emily Melton, Partner @ DFJ
- ▶ 1:34 Harry Stebbings It's the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:03 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 1:42 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Sirius Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:01 Josh Stein We realized that businesses were using it for sharing things like PowerPoint, Excel documents, and that was the genesis of this pivot to the enterprise.
- ▶ 13:01 Josh Stein We realized that businesses were using it for sharing things like PowerPoint, Excel documents, and that was the genesis of this pivot to the enterprise.
- ▶ 24:13 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is also productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
20VC: eShares' Henry Ward on Why Portfolio Theory Is Wrong? Why Investors Will Never Take Market Risk & Why You have To Have A Line of Sight To A $Bn Outcome
- ▶ 1:31 Harry Stebbings It's the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:21 Harry Stebbings It's a plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook, which automatically updates activities in Salesforce, so you don't have to. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
- ▶ 1:32 Harry Stebbings Another target of mine for the new year is productivity, and there's no better for that than Serious Insight, the plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:34 Harry Stebbings The plugin for sales pros who use Gmail and Outlook. 2 times in the scene