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Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 29:34 Alex Rampell Yeah, so Amit took over, we implemented, he was very, very excited, but, uh, and I remember I, I, I came up in Microsoft, I think I did this in Microsoft Word or Excel, like, here's our pricing sheet, because we needed the pricing sheet,…
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 44:09 Steven Sinofsky Well, it's also, to your earlier point, you know, expertise exists in this cloud in an organization, and, and it is the, the untapped resource of the modern era, and Aaron Levy at Box has done the, the most eloquent job of explaining…
Box CEO on AI Agents & Why Enterprise Can't Keep Up | a16z
- ▶ 34:25 Steven Sinofsky And I, I think like there was a moment at the internet that, that I really was thinking about when, when you guys were, when I was seeing the timescale difference, which was suddenly the eight million quadrillion pages of how to use Word…
- ▶ 56:46 Aaron Levie I think we may be over, like, I mean, as a big lover of technology, I wish this was true, but I think we just over assume that like everybody's job is, is just, they're just inside of Microsoft Word and they're just typing a Word document. 2 times in the scene
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 12:12 Steven Sinofsky Well, and, you know, it was, because it hurt, physically hurt, to watch somebody suffering with bullets and numbering in Word, or trying to figure out, you know, like, oh, let me just make a two-sided, a two-axis graph in Excel.
Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
- ▶ 51:58 Mike Cannon-Brookes Think of Microsoft Word without a toolbar, but with chat only. 2 times in the scene
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 39:24 Benedict Evans So you would have your web pages on your PC, and you'd leave your PC turned on, and that would be how your colleagues would look at your Word documents, or your web pages.
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 8:13 Alex Rampell And you kind of see this if you use Microsoft Word. 3 times in the scene
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 21:22 Keith Rabois Not in LinkedIn, not in Word, probably not in Excel. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:38 Alex Rampell But like Microsoft Word has overshot the market, but they do have the distribution, which is, which I think is the hardest part. 2 times in the scene
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 25:54 Steven Sinofsky Like, when email came along, you know, it used to be to prepare an agenda for a meeting, somebody would open up Word and type in all the things, and then print it out, and everybody would show up to the meeting with this very well format. 2 times in the scene
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 42:55 Steven Sinofsky And so we finally figured out that like editing on the internet was not going to be like Word.
Agents, Lawyers, and LLMs
- ▶ 19:22 unnamed speaker Um, the, the two tools that they use the most are Word and email or basically Outlook. 2 times in the scene
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 17:48 Steven Sinofsky And the reason it's important is because it looks like Canva or, you know, it looked like Word or it looked like PowerPoint or it looked like Excel.
How AI is Reshaping Labor Markets: A $Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Explained
- ▶ 26:23 Alex Rampell Like, I don't like Excel, Word, Microsoft Edge browser looking for bad things.
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 0:59 Frank Chen And Clippy was a feature inside Microsoft Word for a couple releases, and based on Chloe's tweet, we wanted to do the definitive history of Clippy, because I know a lot of you
- ▶ 8:33 Steven Sinofsky Like, you could fit only two paragraphs of word on the screen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:07 Frank Chen How do you use Microsoft Word? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:29 unnamed speaker You're actually getting off easy compared to what the government did to Clippy, that annoying paperclip icon that pops up on your Microsoft Word software all the time.
a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
- ▶ 16:17 Anil Sethi It's like turning a Word document into Excel.
a16z Podcast | M&A and Innovation, Inside Out
- ▶ 23:58 Stephanie Cohen Because Microsoft Word. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Construction Under Tech -- Info Flows
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 27:30 Steven Sinofsky And so the, the interesting thing is, like, you know, how much, and this is really where people really push back, because what, what's gonna happen is people, as you've pointed out many times, like, people's jobs are gonna change, and…
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 13:22 Benedict Evans There's stories in Facebook, and there's stories in Instagram, and there's stories in WhatsApp, just as like there was a charting tool in tables, because of course you should be able to do tables in a slide, and of course you should be…
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 15:19 Steven Sinofsky And it turns out they backed away from saying that because it was just so confusing to everybody because you ask, oh, then can I run Mac word on it?
- ▶ 27:10 Benedict Evans I can draw on that Word document if I was going to print something out, and I don't think I printed anything out this year, except for, like, doing taxes. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | It's Complicated
- ▶ 8:57 Steven Sinofsky And I have to tell you, I've been on a lot of support calls with people with problems with word, and trying to say don't panic hasn't really worked for me personally.
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 6:34 Benedict Evans Yeah, it's kind of like the classic Windows model, where you would open Word, and then you'd hit File, Open, and you'd go and get the file, whereas the Mac was always structured on the idea that you would double-click on the Word file, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:26 Steven Sinofsky But, you know, the flip side of it is what, is that the writing tools were super good, and I wasn't doing what I would do on a PC, because it turns out what I would do on a PC for that experience, I would have started Word, I would have…
a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
- ▶ 33:04 Shaka Senghor I didn't know the difference between Word documents and the Internet.
a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
- ▶ 18:55 Steven Sinofsky Even if you just look at, like, autocorrect in Word, there's a whole history of AI behind that.
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 10:56 Benedict Evans No, then, to be fair, then they show a, um, so there's a plug-in keyboard, there is a stylus, the thing itself is bigger, and it's bigger to the point that you can run two iPad apps in portrait mode next to each other, so you can have Word…
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 | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
- ▶ 1:49 Benedict Evans I think it's something you're going to have to use, um, and the thing about using an iPad as opposed to using a laptop is, particularly if you've got a keyboard on it, is you feel like this ought to be, you know, if you're using Word on an…
a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
- ▶ 22:16 Spencer Rascoff And so, what we do now is, you know, it's like a 12 or 14 page, you know, single line Word doc in PDF.
a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
- ▶ 22:08 Diane Greene Which was, um, ah, so when I was building VMware, ah, for my board meetings, ah, what I would do was, I, back then we didn't have Google Docs, so I'd type up a little Word doc, you know, that, that, you know, in the first paragraph had
a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
- ▶ 6:51 Steven Sinofsky We were trying to build the specs for Office, and of course, we didn't quite know what to build, so we built like a spec place to put all the, the Word documents and spreadsheets, and that became SharePoint.
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.
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 13:08 Benedict Evans Into one file and Word documents into another program. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Engineering a Revolution at Work
- ▶ 7:09 Steven Sinofsky Well, you know, word is. 2 times in the scene