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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 7:36 Danny Rimer So whether it's Dropbox, or Slack, or the Microsoft, the three, six, five efforts, or what Adobe is magnificently doing, a lot of the enterprise is actually moving towards the consumer metaphor to sell software.
- ▶ 7:36 Danny Rimer So whether it's Dropbox, or Slack, or the Microsoft, the three, six, five efforts, or what Adobe is magnificently doing, a lot of the enterprise is actually moving towards the consumer metaphor to sell software.
20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- ▶ 25:44 Avidan Ross So we think that big companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft have built out fantastic engineering manager programs.
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?
- ▶ 19:22 Dennis Mortensen It's kind of a mess, but you can do that in, uh, in Excel.
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 5:03 Howard Lerman I will say that I think if you historically look back at the greatest companies in history, they typically have come from more of a grassroots organic type of feel like Microsoft or Apple or even IBM or going back to the Ford Motor…
20VC: The Mindset The Best Investors Assume When Assessing Opportunities, Why So Many Hardware Startups Fail Today & The Right Way To Think About Employee Retention with Andrew Farah, Founder & CEO @ Density
- ▶ 17:04 Andrew Farah Sometimes that's a big deal with IBM and in Microsoft's very early days.
20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partn
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings As for Barry himself, he's led investments in Snapchat, Metasolve Software, which was acquired post-IPO by Oracle, Callista Technologies, which was acquired by Microsoft, Arbor Networks, acquired by DHR, Growth Networks, acquired by Cisco.
20VC: Why Founders Must Use VCs as a Barometer, How to Make Distributed Teams Work Successfully & The Biggest Mistake People Make Early In Their Career with Dylan Serota, Founder @ Terminal
- ▶ 4:50 Dylan Serota Meanwhile, all the big players were already doing this like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, but earlier stage companies weren't taking the strategy.
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings As for Fritz, prior to ClassPass, he was the founder and CEO at Livestar, a mobile recommendation startup that was acquired by Pinterest, and before that, he was a senior director in the corporate strategy group at Microsoft, where he led…
- ▶ 4:05 Fritz Lanman Microsoft was starting a program to hire undergrads onto the business side, and I was in the inaugural class of that. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:43 Fritz Lanman Microsoft had things that they were great at. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:23 Harry Stebbings Okay, so starting on the Facebook investment and the background with Microsoft leading several multi-billion M&A projects, I'd love to start with a question from Charlie Songhurst. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:42 Fritz Lanman I mean, my first one was square and I had looked into payments a bit for Microsoft because, you know, we had so much cash in the balance sheet that one of the things we could have done was become a bank.
- ▶ 19:51 Fritz Lanman I wrote my check into Square straight out of my personal checking account, and then I teamed up with this guy, Hank Vigil, who was one of my mentors at Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:07 unnamed speaker And, um, it's always just served me well, especially since I left Microsoft, because I was in the big comfortable cocoon there and had an incredibly rich intellectually stimulating job and financially rewarding job with great colleagues.
20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
- ▶ 18:21 Elad Gil And so that's everything from Microsoft starting with their OS and then launching different components of the office, which they either bought or built themselves and distributing it as a bundle.
- ▶ 28:52 Elad Gil And really, if you look at the other most valuable companies in the world, be it Google or Apple or Microsoft, these actually tend to be companies with extremely high profit margins. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Serial Entrepreneurship is Overrated, Why You Will Get Fired If You Listen To Your Board & How To Construct Investor Update Emails The Right Way with Joe Fernandez, Founder & CEO @ Joymode
- ▶ 5:25 Joe Fernandez We had Microsoft as investors.
- ▶ 19:09 Joe Fernandez The next release, a really big release we were working on was coming up about the same time we were talking to Microsoft about a, they made a, like basically a twenty million dollar investment in us. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Most The Value In Crypto Will Accrue in Governance, When Institutional Capital Will Enter The Space and How To Think About Liquidity In Crypto with Joel Monegro, Founding Partner @ Placeholder.VC
- ▶ 8:12 Joel Monegro And so we see in the sixties and seventies and eighties, we see that the rise of the software industry or the development of the software industry that began as an explosion and then later consolidated around Microsoft in the late eighties… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:33 Joel Monegro And if you think about Microsoft's business model at the time, it was almost 100% based on proprietary software combined with proprietary distribution, proprietary software, largely meaning a proprietary operating system that Windows that…
20VC: Why The Days of Spray and Pray at Seed Are Over, How To Compete In A World of Sequoia Seed Funds & Why Price Doesn't Matter with Dan Scheinman, Angel Investor @ Zoom & Arista Networks
- ▶ 14:05 Dan Scheinman Maybe it's less true now, but there are still groups or things that are harder to raise, and if you can stay focused on those things, you know, I used to get taken out every once in a while for the patronizing lunch, where someone would…
20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
- ▶ 3:36 Marco Zappacosta Microsoft did that.
20VC: How To Strategically Build The Right Investor Base, Why Startup Timing is Like Surfing & How To Determine Whether Someone is Scaling with the Organisation or Not with Daniel Lewis, Founder & CEO @ Convoy
- ▶ 0:46 Harry Stebbings Before Convoy though, Dan served as general manager of new shopping experiences at Amazon, and also spent time at Google and Microsoft.
- ▶ 4:15 Harry Stebbings I do want to touch on your time at Amazon there because you also worked at Google and Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- ▶ 4:51 Leore Avidar Was really exciting to me, and so when I was at AWS, I began seeing the success and thinking about, hey, what are the other ways that I can create superpowers for developers, and so when I moved to Seattle, my co-founder Harry was there at… 3 times in the scene
20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
- ▶ 13:42 Andy Pflaum The biggest, I'd say, element of that is, of course, AWS, or the similar services from Google and Microsoft, cloud services, but also the rise of more online services for managing a company.
- ▶ 17:30 Andy Pflaum One is that we believed what we were getting into in workplace communications was going to be a long play, that there are big players in this space that we partner with, as well as, you could say, kind of compete alongside, and those are…
20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 21:02 Crystal Huang Or Microsoft or Google, but you've got to bet
20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
- ▶ 25:38 Kevin Thau Earlier in my career, he was a superstar that came out of Microsoft, and then I worked with him at OpenWave.