Microsoft, every mention
76 scenes (2022), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:51 Hadi Partovi And when I was 26, I think, I quit Microsoft to, to start my own startup, Tell Me Networks, with my former enemies from Netscape.
- ▶ 5:23 Hadi Partovi My early career at Microsoft, since I was, uh, since I was 18 years old, I'd been an intern at Microsoft, uh, since freshman year of college, and even in my freshman year of college, I met Steve Ballmer in the cafeteria and said hello to… 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:09 Hadi Partovi Steve Ballmer does not get anywhere near enough credit for having built Microsoft's into the powerhouse that it is right now. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:37 Hadi Partovi I think I, I escalated quickly within Microsoft and, and my career rose quickly because not only I didn't get crushed, I, I shined in those reviews.
- ▶ 14:31 Hadi Partovi I was at Microsoft at the time, and I was in charge of the Microsoft Internet portal at the time, uh, back when Microsoft was competing with Yahoo and AOL and, and the upstart Google in the world of search. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:54 Hadi Partovi So for me, high performance comes from both working smart and working hard, giving it my all literally all the time at, and in every job I've worked, even when I worked at Microsoft at tens of thousands of person, people company, I would…
- ▶ 29:06 Hadi Partovi I, I saw this in the difference between, um, working at tell me the startup I started, and then I returned to Microsoft into the MSN group, where it was this giant organization.
- ▶ 49:13 Hadi Partovi Uh, and there's many efforts being done by the largest tech companies, by Microsoft, by Google, by Amazon,
Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:07 Ben Chestnut We like, we used Excel. 2 times in the scene
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:18 Marty Cagan You know, windows.
- ▶ 2:28 Marty Cagan Uh, but as you know, after about five or six years, we lost the browser wars to Microsoft and your internet history.
- ▶ 20:02 Marty Cagan You could do, we used to call this the old Microsoft model, and to their credit, they would pull it off, which is you just, you just assume you're going to spend three, four, five major iterations, and you're taking about a year for each… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:02 Marty Cagan Microsoft too.
William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:18 William Hockey One of the reasons that Microsoft, I think, is always troubled in the consumers. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:15 Jason Lemkin The old, the old, old version of is why wouldn't Microsoft or Google or whomever do this, right?
Oana Olteanu: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | 20VC #950 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:17 Harry Stebbings The other thing I would say is actually, I really like it when they send, not slide decks, because they can just be used as like crutches, but like a doc, and then I say send it in a Word doc, not a Google doc, because if you send it in a… 2 times in the scene
Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:21 Cathie Wood I think a lot of it has been, you know, last year, uh, uh, the market reached all-time highs in twenty-twenty-one as we were selling off, and it was, it was the Fangs, it was Microsoft, it was Nvidia, and those, those, if you look at the…
- ▶ 55:59 Cathie Wood It is the first, the, it and Microsoft are the two beneficiaries of the first rip and replace cycle that we've seen in the enterprise communication space since the early nineties when Cisco was building out the internet now, but, but that… 2 times in the scene
Michael Mauboussin: The Single Biggest Mistake Investors Make In Decision-Making | 20VC #945 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:41 Harry Stebbings So the way I do it is I send out actually a Word doc, not a Google doc, because that's obviously collaborative. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:34 Michael Mauboussin So that's, that's finding the whatever, you know, apples when they're turning or Amazons or Microsoft when they're, when they're starting to emerge.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:13 Emil Michael And I was able to, to help get it sold to Microsoft to be the base of their speech recognition technology today.
- ▶ 8:25 Emil Michael For one hour with Steve Ballmer at Microsoft, one hour, and everyone thought it was crazy. 2 times in the scene
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:24 Drew Houston And then it was also clear that like we were inviting competition from like the best and most capitalized companies in the world and that Microsoft and Google and Apple and literally everyone was coming after us, um, cloning our products,…
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22 Tristan Handy Like you could just sit down and do the work and not make PowerPoint slides about doing the work.
Parker Conrad: How I Got Ousted from Zenefits and Came Back with a Vengence | 20VC #932 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:48 Parker Conrad You know, there's, there's the only other company that I know of that, that sort of looks like that is Microsoft.
David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC #927 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:03 David Lieb Google, um, Microsoft Word.
- ▶ 6:07 David Lieb Uh, Windows.
dLocal CEO Sebastian Kanovich: The $8BN Company You Might Not Know | 20VC #926 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:56 Sebastian Kanovich Not only that they sign up PowerPoint or a presentation of how the solution should look, that's not high performance.
- ▶ 33:11 Sebastian Kanovich This is the Excel sheet.
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Wesley Chan: How I Created Google Analytics; The Founding Story of Gmail & Canva | 20VC #919 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:29 Wesley Chan Like, you know, like you look at Photoshop, you look at Office and look at these other companies.
20VC: The Memo: What is a Sales Playbook? Does the Founder Need to Create It? Should the First Sales Hire Be a Leader or a Rep?
- ▶ 13:43 Zhenya Loginov Moving from selling into one country to a global sales team and covering the global market from sort of one set of competitors that are maybe small, pure plays to entire different another set that may include the likes of like Microsoft…
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:10 Tony Fadell Microsoft laughs, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Sam Taylor: How I Became VP of Sales at Loom; Lessons from Dropbox | 20VC #908 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:44 Harry Stebbings I've got us to kind of, um, should I create like word docs with like the script that I use, the core value props that I say to the different people within orgs?
Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:57 Des Traynor And equals basically it connects spreadsheets like Excel
- ▶ 16:59 Des Traynor So I think the easiest thing for a company like Miro to do, I think is to get notions about becoming Microsoft Office and start starting to branch out and becoming a document editor and all that sort of stuff, because everyone tells you…
- ▶ 25:13 Des Traynor And if the answer is they're doing it in Excel or whatever, then
Mike Chalfen: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | 20VC #904 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:37 Harry Stebbings And so what I always suggest is like a comment in an isolated word doc, then you, the founder can bring everyone's independent thoughts
20 Product: The Ultimate Guide to Product Reviews: What Makes the Best vs the Worst | How Often Should They Be | Who Should Be Invited | Who Sets The Agenda | How to do Follow-Ups Post Product Reviews
- ▶ 1:50 Scott Belsky The first thing is, you know, I deeply, deeply believe in the fact that a prototype is worth a hundred meetings, and if you can have a discussion around a PowerPoint with bullet points and stuff, I mean, you're gonna miss so much
Henri Pierre-Jacques: How I Founded Harlem Capital; Our $134M Fund | 20VC #901 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:04 Harry Stebbings I think one thing that I've also done is, like, being aware of the weight of words, I make people comment on Word docs, not on Google docs, because then they send them back to me the night before, and then I can pick on them in the meeting… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:08 Henri Pierre-Jacques So first it's in PowerPoint, not Word, because I don't believe in Word docs.
- ▶ 39:08 Henri Pierre-Jacques So first it's in PowerPoint, not Word, because I don't believe in Word docs. 2 times in the scene
Mire CRO Zhenya Loginov: Hiring Tips for Sales; Why Dropbox Lost Enterprise | 20VC #900 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:22 Zhenya Loginov Two entire different, another set that may include the likes of like Microsoft and Google and so on.
Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:48 Adam Fishman Um, it basically lived in Excel.
- ▶ 39:38 Adam Fishman So like when I joined, um, imperfect foods as their chief product officer, chief product and growth officer, I built this out in an Excel file or a Google sheets file, I should say.
Ruchi Sanghvi: My Job Interview with Mark Zuckerberg; Deep Dive on DAOs | 20VC #895 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:24 Ruchi Sanghvi I built an Excel sheet to figure out my relationship to money.
Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:19 Tony Fadell And the reason being was it didn't work with Windows based PCs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:38 Tony Fadell Um, that was a embedded operating system from windows.
- ▶ 39:41 Tony Fadell Uh, for doing mobile, for mobile computing for professionals, like a mobile Excel and email and stuff like that.
20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How to Structure and Conduct the Most Efficient Customer Discovery Process & The Framework to Determine Your North Star and When To Change it with Darius Contractor, Former VP Growth @ Airt
- ▶ 1:55 Harry Stebbings The platform provides founders with free resources like Azure credits, development tools like GitHub, mentorship resources, productivity software, training, and so much more.
- ▶ 50:30 Harry Stebbings The platform provides founders with free resources like Azure credits, development tools like GitHub, mentorship resources, productivity software, training, and so much more.
20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of Entitled Assholes, Harley Finkelstein on What Great Fatherhood Really Means, Deena Shakir on How Kids Make You a Better Investor and Anne Wojcicki on How Children Change Your Approach to R
- ▶ 0:42 Harry Stebbings The platform provides founders with free resources like Azure Credits, development tools like GitHub, mentorship resources, productivity software, training, and so much more.
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings Learn more and sign up at startups.microsoft.com. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:20 Harry Stebbings The platform provides founders with free resources like Azure Credits, development tools like GitHub, mentorship resources, productivity software, training, and so much more.
- ▶ 34:35 Harry Stebbings Learn more and sign up at startups.microsoft.com.
20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 1:45 Harry Stebbings Including Microsoft, Zoom, UiPath, and Gainsight, to name a few.
- ▶ 38:52 Harry Stebbings From startups to industry titans, over 5000 companies rely on Product Board to get the right products to market faster, including Microsoft, Zoom, UiPath, and Gainsight, to name a few.
20VC Exclusive: Fast's Domm Holland on What Really Happened at Fast? Were they really Burning $10M per Month? Where did Bolt Succeed Where Fast Did Not? What is It Really Like To Have Stripe Invest in your Company?
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings The platform provides founders with free resources like Azure Credits, development tools like GitHub, mentorship resources, product
- ▶ 1:00 Harry Stebbings Learn more and sign up at startups.microsoft.com.
- ▶ 27:04 Harry Stebbings The platform provides founders with free resources like Azure Credits,
- ▶ 27:19 Harry Stebbings Learn more and sign up at startups.microsoft.com.
20VC: Why Crypto is Software Eating Money, Why Crypto Firms Will Outcompete Traditional Venture Firms, How To Price Tokens and When To Have Them, DAOs: How Are They Structured and What Makes One Successful with Avichal Garg, Co-Founder @ Electric Capital
- ▶ 19:28 Avichal Garg And instead of it being 19 seventies infrastructure and PDFs and Excel and email that is sort of moving all this stuff around, which is, I mean, you've done venture for a long time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:26 Avichal Garg I think it's equivalent to Microsoft still had a fantastic business despite Google breaking through, and Google still has a fantastic business despite Facebook breaking through.
20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated
- ▶ 6:01 Eddie Vivas I had given them nine months notice that I was going to be leaving, and about a month into that, Microsoft acquires the company.
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 1:08 Harry Stebbings From startups to industry titans, over 5000 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, UiPath, and Gainsight rely on Product Board to get the right products to market faster.
- ▶ 40:39 Harry Stebbings From startups to industry titans, over 5000 companies, including Microsoft,
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- ▶ 17:26 David Friedberg The scientists, the academics, the engineers, the researchers that we primarily start businesses with are not out there going up and down Sand Hill Road with PowerPoints with their crazy idea.
20VC: 3 Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Scaling, Management 101 on Trust Building, Morale Maintenance and Hiring & What We Can Learn About Parenting From Nature Programs with Scott Dietzen
- ▶ 33:43 Scott Dietzen You know, I had the chance to be early on at Microsoft, early on at Amazon, earlier on at Google.
20 Product: Scott Belsky on How to Hire Your Product Leader and Team, 3 Questions All Great Product Leaders Ask, How To Structure and Run Effective Product Reviews & Is Product More Art or Science?
- ▶ 1:32 Harry Stebbings From startups to industry titans, over 5000 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, UiPath, and Gainsight rely on Product Board to get the right products to market faster.
- ▶ 11:31 Scott Belsky And if you can have a discussion around a PowerPoint with bullet points and stuff, I mean, you're going to miss so much.
- ▶ 43:31 Harry Stebbings From startups to industry titans, over 5000 companies, including Microsoft,
20VC: Biggest Lessons and Challenges Building One of the Most Successful Seed Funds, How To Manage Investor Psychology, Self-Doubt and Insecurity & The Secret to Truly Successful Venture Partnerships with David Frankel, Co-Founder @ Founder Collective
- ▶ 11:56 David Frankel So in 2004, Microsoft was number 46 on the Fortune 500.
Mac the VC on the Journey from Homeless To Becoming A VC | Full Interview with Harry Stebbings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:17 Harry Stebbings I mean, Jesus, whenever I open Excel, it says sign in or register, and I'm like, ooh, don't like this.
20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
- ▶ 30:24 Roger Ehrenberg You know, a Microsoft or a Google, FTC might be like, can't do that.
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- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings The first, Link Exchange, which he sold to Microsoft for two hundred and sixty-five million dollars in 1998.