Microsoft, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
- ▶ 11:04 Brandon Deer It's, uh, if I had to put it simply, it's kind of like an Excel macro that runs on a mainframe, web app, Citrix environment, or any desktop application, really.
20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- ▶ 18:26 Ash Fontana They could be running the machine learning model and delivering the results to customers in like an Excel sheet or PowerPoint presentation.
- ▶ 18:26 Ash Fontana They could be running the machine learning model and delivering the results to customers in like an Excel sheet or PowerPoint presentation.
20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- ▶ 5:37 unnamed speaker And when you talk about cutting expenses or changing things in a PowerPoint, there's a real human impact of those elements, and you might be having to replace somebody who is a longtime member of your team, or there might be some nuance…
20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- ▶ 10:22 Vlad Magdalin I'd probably be working at Microsoft maybe on, like, Office, like my brother.
- ▶ 10:22 Vlad Magdalin I'd probably be working at Microsoft maybe on, like, Office, like my brother.
20VC: a16z's Ben Horowitz on How To Create An Environment of Trust with Founders, How and Why Creating Shocking Rules Is So Impactful To Culture & What The Samurai, Shaka Senghor and Toussaint Teach Us About Company Culture Building
- ▶ 4:16 Ben Horowitz Our experience being entrepreneurs and, and the big aha that we had or kind of belief that there was a hole in the market was if you were a founder, you know, kind of an inventor who was building a company, we always kind of felt you were…
- ▶ 15:49 unnamed speaker Uh, against Microsoft Office.
- ▶ 16:05 unnamed speaker And like that cultural difference won the day for Microsoft.
20VC: Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed on Why Market Risk Is The Most Dangerous Risk To Underwrite As A VC, How To Determine When to Stretch vs Not on Price Today & The $TRN of Market Cap Up For Grabs Today In Enterprise
- ▶ 4:51 Arif Jan Mohamed We were soldering and building boards and building robotics back in 1997, and then I became a chip designer later on at a company called Web TV, which was eventually acquired by Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:32 Arif Jan Mohamed He's now the chairman of Microsoft, and in between, he ran a company called Virtual Instruments, which we actually invested in, and John is a veteran of the enterprise space.
20VC: Sequoia's Mike Vernal on His Biggest Lessons From 8 Years of Hyper-Growth at Facebook, Why The Strength of Data Moats Is Over-Rated Today and The Challenge of "Overthinking Investments" In Venture
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings Prior to Facebook, Mike spent four years at Microsoft as a PM lead in Microsoft's developer division. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:06 Mike Vernal Separately, at about the same time, a good friend of mine who was my PM at Microsoft before I joined Facebook, also left Microsoft to start a company in 2009. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Former Tinder CPO Brian Norgard on His Biggest Product Takeaways from Launching the Top Grossing App in the World, The Top 10 Reasons Why Products Fail Today & How The Best Founders Assess Risk and Use It
- ▶ 21:47 Brian Norgard It was an Excel.
20VC: IA Ventures' Jesse Beyroutey on Game Theory and How It Impacts Investor Mindset, How To Avoid "The Pressure To Deploy" Today In Venture & Why Ownership Is The Single Most Important Parameter When Investing
- ▶ 8:54 Jesse Beyroutey I think that that's fair in a whole host of markets, and so I think of that as a strong default, and I might compare that sentiment to the strong defaults in the nineties and early 2000 that you can't compete with Microsoft.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter On Lessons From Investing in 14 $Bn Companies, What The Heck Is Going On In Cloud Today and Why Cloud IPO Floodgates Are About To Burst Open
- ▶ 8:01 Byron Deeter Meanwhile, you look at what's happened with Microsoft and the transition they did several years ago, moving to Satya, who was the head of their cloud group, promoting him to the head of Microsoft corporate and seeing this fantastic… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Bill Gurley on 5 Traits Benchmark Look For When Adding To The Partnership, Why The Abundance of Capital Is Today's Biggest Challenge in VC & The Right Way To Think About Market Size When Assessing Opportunities
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings Four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston, where his research coverage included such companies as Dell, Compaq, and Microsoft, and he was also the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO.
- ▶ 12:08 Bill Gurley So we're frequently meeting with two people on a PowerPoint talking about an industry.
20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
- ▶ 3:53 Jonathan Hsu Towards the end of my PhD, it was just clear I didn't want to be an academic, and in the, you know, this is in 2006, so back then everybody was trying to go to investment banks, but, you know, I wanted to go into technology somehow, and…
- ▶ 4:11 Jonathan Hsu And live and Bing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:58 Jonathan Hsu The opposite situation are situations like Facebook, which certainly remains single-handedly untouched in terms of its sheer size, in terms of its sheer market dominance, uh, you know, or Microsoft at its peak.
20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves
- ▶ 25:49 Zach Perret I found a book recently called Hard Drive about the early days of Microsoft.
20VC: Clearbanc's Michele Romanow on Why 40% of VC $ Raised Today Goes To Google and Facebook, How To Create A Financing Mechanism For The Repeatable Parts Of Your Business & Why We Need To Stop Celebrating Fundraises
- ▶ 16:08 Michele Romanow You know, when Microsoft went public, 2 times in the scene
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 24:20 Frederic Kerrest So our PowerPoints were terrible.
20VC: Why Startup Founders Have One Core Job, How To Reduce Risk & Increase Probability In Your Startup & Why You Should Not Send A Pitch Deck Pre-Investor Meeting with David Rogier, Founder & CEO @ Masterclass
- ▶ 16:07 David Rogier You know, there's already proof online that people were going to buy classes on how to use Excel, but you know, were they going to buy classes on acting?
20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings Prior to changing the world of design with Figma, Dylan held roles at Flipboard, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, and was part of the renowned Teal Fellowship.
- ▶ 4:31 Dylan Field And from there, I ended up going to Brown, and I would go kind of in between intern, in between terms, and I got to do a research assistantship at Microsoft Research.
- ▶ 31:10 Dylan Field I think Bill Gates, um, not just because of, like, the riches, but also just the way that he took over the computing industry, and just the amount of strength that Microsoft was able to gather in their early years, and how fast they moved,…
20VC: One Question Founders Must Ask Themselves When Approaching Investor Selection, Why Series B Is One Of The Most Challenging Phases & What Makes For A Successful CEO Transition with Jeff Russakow, CEO @ Boosted
- ▶ 21:35 Jeff Russakow It could be 40 to 60% made, and you have a great PowerPoint, and so you don't need this painful year and all this capital to launch the product, but then you've got to sell the product, and now you can be in sales cycles that are nine
20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
- ▶ 22:13 Harry Stebbings We want to dig into the Excel spreadsheets now.
20VC: The Transition From Founder To CEO, How To Determine When To Stretch On Price in Venture & The Benefits of Attribution for Partnership Dynamics with Jeff Richards, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 4:04 Jeff Richards It was, you know, back in the day before we had Microsoft, before we had Amazon, very grassroots companies that really were part of the scene in Washington State, and I then went to college, Dartmouth College on the East Coast, and then…
- ▶ 12:26 Jeff Richards We give them tools and techniques to become better leaders, and the whole idea was to cater towards founders trying to transition becoming leaders, but also for their management teams to helping their management team become better leaders,…
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- ▶ 6:42 Rahul Vohra So, you know, no team, no prototype, no traction, just a concept, and one slide of PowerPoint to raise that money.