Microsoft PowerPoint, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft PowerPoint comes up
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 17:14 Steven Sinofsky Right, or in Excel, or in PowerPoint, and, and so we were, like, watching the sequence of events, and so in particular things that would catch our attention, like, try something, undo it, try something, undo it, try something else, undo…
- ▶ 19:05 Steven Sinofsky Well, there, we had group called Word and a group called Excel and a group across the street in Silicon Valley called PowerPoint. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:18 Steven Sinofsky I just gave my, I just opened PowerPoint, started doing my slides, and.
- ▶ 49:52 Steven Sinofsky And so, I did this demo 50 times for reporters, and, and the problem we had was, the Word team was busy building more wizards, just like the Excel team was in the PowerPoint team.
- ▶ 1:02:23 Gilbert Gottfried I told them I make PowerPoint hip.
a16z Podcast | Finding Go-to-Market Fit in the Enterprise
- ▶ 9:26 Bob Tinker You put together some PowerPoint pitches. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
- ▶ 17:56 Dave Turetsky But if you look at some of the other tools that have changed our society, not everybody went and learned how to set type, but then we made PowerPoint, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 6:51 Benedict Evans And of course, now it seems entirely normal that you can basically use PowerPoint written in HTML inside a web browser, and you can create all of these tools and applications in a browser, but it took 20 years for it to really become a…
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 30:10 Benedict Evans Every two weeks, they do a, they pull a bunch of data out of SAP into a CSV, they put the CSV into Excel, they make charts, they put the charts into PowerPoint, they write bullet points, they email the PowerPoint to everybody. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 19:10 Benedict Evans Um, so if you want to open something from box or iCloud or Dropbox in PowerPoint or Excel or something, you have to jump through about five hoops and this sort of stuff that they could have cleaned up there that they haven't.
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 3:30 Benedict Evans The gap for me is doing, um, charts in PowerPoint.
- ▶ 21:50 Steven Sinofsky Like, but other things about that abstraction layer, like, so much of what, and remember, I worked on all these things, so they're very emotional for me, but, like, all of these things that I used to do with a mouse, like, aligning text… 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Making the Most of the Data That Matters
- ▶ 1:22 Steven Sinofsky Generate reports, print them out, move them up the chain, and distill them down, and, and as Benedict talked about in PowerPoint slides, and now we have the opportunity, um, if you build out the right infrastructure, to access that data,…
a16z Podcast | London Calling for Tech Done in a Different Way
- ▶ 26:40 Russell Davies It makes you, makes your PowerPoint really bad.
a16z Podcast | Beyond Lean Startups
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 11:16 Benedict Evans Um, you know, you can have email and PowerPoint, or you can have email and a web browser, and so you can multitask in a way, again, that you can do on the surface, you know, with Windows, from starting from Windows eight, you had this…
a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything
- ▶ 31:08 Connie Chan Um, and when you're communicating, you can use text, you can use audio, but you can also send Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel.
a16z Podcast | Verizon Plus AOL -- Why? -- The Short Answer is Mobile
- ▶ 0:51 Chris Dixon Somewhere there's a, you know, there's a power, probably a McKinsey PowerPoint that has the words, ah, mobile video, programmatic, advertising, synergy, um, user tracking, et cetera, which, you know, was the, the kind of justification for…
a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
- ▶ 18:44 Bill Krauss No PowerPoints.
- ▶ 21:34 Spencer Rascoff Um, we switched about a year ago to a memo system after Bezos and Amazon's, um, model of kind of no PowerPoint, um, for, for one or two meetings in a row.
a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat
- ▶ 22:06 Michael Copeland So it's not 300 slide PowerPoint presentation?
a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
- ▶ 22:53 Diane Greene No PowerPoints, um, didn't always have the whole team in there, didn't use the board as a way to make people feel important, or, anyhow, I'm just curious what you, you think should happen in, along those lines. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Getting Sales Right
- ▶ 10:59 Daniel Shapero And so, um, so I think for us, simple thing, like give, give a person a PowerPoint deck or a context in which to come in, um, find someone that you know that has sales experience and have them sit in with you.
a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
- ▶ 33:50 Benedict Evans I mean, there's a classic kind of use case I always talk about, which I think of my friends in big companies who, once a week or once a fortnight, they have to go into an internal system and put out a bunch of operating data, and then drop… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
- ▶ 16:38 Benedict Evans There's an awful lot of people whose job, who make a PowerPoint every fortnight and need a mouse and a keyboard, but their job doesn't actually revolve around PowerPoint, and they should be using a SAS dashboard or something. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 6:30 Benedict Evans And the second answer is, is it actually your job to make a 45 slide PowerPoint once a month, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile
- ▶ 7:45 Benedict Evans A lot of, there's a lot of people whose job involves using PowerPoint or Excel or perhaps Word, and who would feel quite rightly that they couldn't do the tasks they need to do without it, and therefore can't do those tasks on a tablet. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Engineering a Revolution at Work
- ▶ 5:04 Benedict Evans Uh, but then there's a kind of, as you say, it's like, I think to my time working in big companies, the kind of the PowerPoint Excel paradigm, uh, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:09 Benedict Evans But that then, just to finish the point, that then flows into this question, the analogy I gave earlier, of the, the, somebody doing a weekly PowerPoint reporting document.