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Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 6:21 Frank Chen So think about today, if you wanted to build custom clothes to sell to an influencer, and you're trying to figure out what kind of clothes to build, that would probably be a lot of summer interns, a lot of Excel spreadsheets, a lot of…
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 12:12 Marc Andreessen It seems like more of the same, but you know, the, if you want, the experience you can have now is like, you can wear one of these things basically all day and you can, you can talk to it all day and, you know, they're getting, you know,…
- ▶ 17:55 Marc Andreessen The, the, the, the, it was written at the time, I don't know if it still holds, but it was, um, somebody did benchmarks of you take Microsoft Office, 2000 on a PC from 2000, and you take Microsoft Office, 2007 on a PC from 2007, and every… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:10 Marc Andreessen So, like, literally, like, the, the, the, the old, the old adage in, in, in, in tech in the nineties was when Andy Grove was running Intel and Bill Gates was running Microsoft, it was Andy Gibbeth in the form of Moore's law, and then Bill…
- ▶ 23:02 Marc Andreessen And if you want to have fun on your plane flights home, it's like, just go on Excel and like chart, you know, n, n squared, and two to the nth, right?
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 25:36 Olaf Carlson-Wee Um, is, is, if, if there was like an intranet and Microsoft owned it, like Microsoft MSN and Microsoft Net back in the day, we would never have seen Amazon, Google, and, and all these companies grow like they have. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:29 Chris Dixon And it just gets this, you know, it starts off, if you go back to, like, when Linux came out in, like, whatever, early nineties, it was definitely worse than Windows, but then it just followed this much faster, like, innovation curve…
- ▶ 44:49 Olaf Carlson-Wee And so, um, anything today that's sort of a one-to-one service, um, with, for example, in the case of Filecoin, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, whatever,
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 0:24 Frank Chen Before he came to us at A-sixteen Z, he had a storied career at Microsoft, and unless you're like three years old, you've used his products, Windows and Office.
- ▶ 0:24 Frank Chen Before he came to us at A-sixteen Z, he had a storied career at Microsoft, and unless you're like three years old, you've used his products, Windows and Office.
- ▶ 0:24 Frank Chen Before he came to us at A-sixteen Z, he had a storied career at Microsoft, and unless you're like three years old, you've used his products, Windows and Office.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 3:15 Steven Sinofsky Now, the, the Office products were relatively new. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:19 Steven Sinofsky The, the first successful version of Office on Windows was, was only two years old.
- ▶ 3:34 Steven Sinofsky Actually, just in Microsoft lingo, it would become Microsoft Office for Windows.
- ▶ 5:13 Steven Sinofsky In fact, it was invented for Excel and on making charts.
- ▶ 8:15 Steven Sinofsky There was a research group, um, in Microsoft Research that was working on a, an actual social interface, a project
- ▶ 8:33 Steven Sinofsky Like, you could fit only two paragraphs of word on the screen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:48 Steven Sinofsky Who, coincidentally, his brother was the development manager for Word, but that was Microsoft back then, like, you know.
- ▶ 10:54 Steven Sinofsky And so, that was really the origin of the next level true assistant with Microsoft Bob. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:24 Frank Chen And the idea that when you booted your PC, you'd see Bob. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:42 Steven Sinofsky And, and we're over in Office planning, like, what to do for these two releases of Office. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:07 Frank Chen How do you use Microsoft Word? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:39 Steven Sinofsky And that was where we tapped into another group at Microsoft Research, um, uh, Stanford-based, um, doing, uh, research on, on using Bayes Theorem and a little bit of NLP, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 17:52 Steven Sinofsky We're not sending this all back to Microsoft or anything.
- ▶ 18:40 Frank Chen So maybe, um, talk a little bit about what was your role at Microsoft at the time, and we'll start talking about the team. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:59 Steven Sinofsky This newly formed group called Office. 10 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. 4 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. 4 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
- ▶ 19:12 Steven Sinofsky Um, and, but, and we were selling Office on the Mac and just started selling it really well on Windows. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:50 Steven Sinofsky And so it was a, it was a pretty exciting time, and they basically, that was what they said, hey, let's just go do this, and he partnered with Karen Fries, and with Microsoft Research, and both of those groups came down, worked with Nass… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:11 Steven Sinofsky And, but Bob has started to become more Bob, like the punchline. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Steven Sinofsky And so POGO is like a, uh, it's a VB program in Excel five, uh, which is the 16 bit version of Excel that existed at the time they were shipping. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:52 Steven Sinofsky Like it had to be a, it had to be a Windows H wind to, to really do this, especially because we wanted to share the code across the products and all this other confusing stuff.
- ▶ 33:33 Steven Sinofsky So one amazing, amazing opportunity that, uh, between, uh, the consumer Bob team and, and Sam that we had was to speak with, um, the, these animators from Walt Disney named Frank and Ollie. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:27 Steven Sinofsky Different characters, like what should be the character for Microsoft Office? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:08 Steven Sinofsky So Mike is this native Oklahoman, worked for IBM for many years before he came to Microsoft, and we're all like, we're going to show this to Mike, and we wonder what he's going to pick.
- ▶ 39:05 Steven Sinofsky We had this dot that was sort of a derivative of some of the work in Bob.
- ▶ 44:18 Steven Sinofsky I just gave my, I just opened PowerPoint, started doing my slides, and.
- ▶ 46:18 Steven Sinofsky You could install Office without Clippy even being installed, and admins would do that, and so, but this notion that, that, like, someone always said it would is very interesting because that describes the 10 years after Clippy from, like,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:10 Steven Sinofsky And we, uh, we had lots of discussions about, about the technology, about Microsoft research, about NASA and Reeves, about all of these parts that, that contributed artificial intelligence and all that.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 58:27 Promo Video Actor Next to Microsoft, Bob, you are the most annoying thing in computer history. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:20 Gilbert Gottfried I pleaded my case to Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:23 Gilbert Gottfried I told them I make PowerPoint hip.
- ▶ 1:04:01 Steven Sinofsky And it was really funny, because, you know, I, you know, a few years later, after Office, 2007, I would move to Windows.
- ▶ 1:04:58 Steven Sinofsky It had become, like, some weird cultural icon of sorts, and, and, and I remember, like, one time I was in a hotel room during the evolution of the downsizing of Clippy, and, like, a incident, I mean, um, a moment in the Microsoft versus…
- ▶ 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.
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- ▶ 23:55 Benedict Evans You know, Microsoft would do some big event, and then you'd look in the tech tech press, and you'd discover what your brilliant Dr.
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- ▶ 26:46 Qasar Younis Your consumers actually don't care if you're running on-prem, AWS, GCP, Azure, or whatever.
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- ▶ 35:48 Ryan Caldbeck I'm stuck in, you know, Excel, Windows, that's, that's what I'm stuck using here.
- ▶ 35:48 Ryan Caldbeck I'm stuck in, you know, Excel, Windows, that's, that's what I'm stuck using here.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
- ▶ 21:40 Joel Monegro But then what happened is that value moved one layer up to the software layer, and so we have Microsoft and the PC software boom of the seventies and eighties. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:58 Dennis Nazarov We can compare the foundational layer of a blockchain smart contract platform and decentralized applications being built on top of it to general cloud computing infrastructure, you know, such as Azure or Google Cloud or Amazon AWS.
a16z Podcast | Stories and Lessons in Enterprise Sales
- ▶ 13:06 Peter Levine We did this big deal at Microsoft and it took months and months and months. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 9:26 Bob Tinker You put together some PowerPoint pitches. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- ▶ 3:51 Steven Sinofsky Microsoft's not really there.
- ▶ 18:34 Benedict Evans This is Apple putting QuickTime on Windows. 2 times in the scene
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 7:06 Ken Kocienda It was still part of the, uh, agreement that had been made a couple of years earlier with Microsoft to provide 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:17 Frank Chen He brought Office to the Mac, and then IE became the default browser.
- ▶ 11:54 unnamed speaker Microsoft.
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 22:04 Frank Chen They are, uh, the company was started by a set of Microsoft Office people who worked on Microsoft Office, and what they're writing is a real-time guidance system for writing things like job descriptions. 2 times in the scene
What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- ▶ 21:15 Frank Chen And then there's sort of business self-improvement, like I want to learn how to use Excel better, or I want to be a better offer-up seller, or something like that.
a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
- ▶ 16:17 Anil Sethi It's like turning a Word document into Excel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:17 Anil Sethi It's like turning a Word document into Excel.
- ▶ 22:28 Anil Sethi It is a early warning system, where if you digitize the data, you could literally have an Excel function, and I'm, you know, I'm trivializing it, that is scanning for populations, and where it sees a concentration of certain things…
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 5:37 Chris Dixon Being pushed by companies like, I believe you know better, Comcast, Disney, Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:05 Brian McCullough So it's that sort of chicken and egg thing where people see the web for the first time in the mosaic browser, cause it's easy to use cause you can get it on windows and they say, I want to create a cool thing like what I just saw.
- ▶ 35:53 Brian McCullough When, when you had Web two point O flower, Microsoft had already had the antitrust thing, so they're not gonna buy anybody, right? 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 11:36 Chris Dixon Open source started as a political movement in the eighties, and then it morphed into a technology movement, but was in the nineties, through things like Linux, but was dismissed by almost everybody, including Microsoft and other people,… 5 times in the scene
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- ▶ 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 | M&A and Innovation, Inside Out
- ▶ 23:58 Stephanie Cohen Because Microsoft Word. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 45:49 Martin Casado And Microsoft are doing some of the more, you know, innovative fundamental contributions, and then, I still sit on program committees, it's interesting, they publish a paper, I'm in the PC committee, and then all of the professors are… 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 25:45 Michael Ovitz That are well financed, getting into content, and that's without Microsoft and Facebook and Google.
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- ▶ 12:55 Fred Wilson Like Microsoft would have made me pay for that, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 Fred Wilson They would have said, you're going to pay for, uh, Explorer or you're going to pay for Outlook and, and that's how we're going to monetize it.
- ▶ 19:00 Chris Dixon And where, but where, how do you think about, so, you know, in that, in the cloud infrastructure world, you have AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
- ▶ 19:34 Fred Wilson But I, I think it could be like Amazon has 60% of the market, Google has 30% of the market, and Microsoft has 10% of the market. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:21 Chris Dixon You already have office, you have all this other stuff.
- ▶ 22:12 Chris Dixon I mean, it's still, people are still using, you know, I don't know, you go to the, whatever, you go to the United desk, and they've got like a DOS interface, you go here, and they've got Windows, you know, I mean, the government hack was… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:47 Chris Dixon I include, I think Windows is a network, right?
- ▶ 34:14 Chris Dixon Microsoft Netscape, you know, Facebook Zynga, like Twitter and the Twitter apps, or whatever, right?
a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- ▶ 2:55 Benedict Evans PC companies became low margin commodity companies, and the people who got the benefit were Microsoft and Intel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:59 Steven Sinofsky People at Microsoft would say that too.
- ▶ 23:12 Steven Sinofsky This is one of the things that happened with the original tablet PC that we made at Microsoft, which was, um, in around 2000, all of a sudden, like we did these internal surveys. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:56 Steven Sinofsky When, when we were building Surface and ARM PCs at Microsoft, like one of the things that happened is we showed up and we said, look, when you use ARM chips, the graphics card is like,
- ▶ 36:55 Benedict Evans They weren't just trying to compete with Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 26:41 Steven Sinofsky Like, there used to be this old saying when I was at Microsoft called, share is air.
a16z Podcast | Earned Secrets
- ▶ 0:38 unnamed speaker But first we start with the moral of the story of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 20:39 Chris Dixon So, you know, the equivalent of a hot dog and a hot dog bun is, you know, is Windows and, you know, Quicken or something back in the old days, and like in the modern world it would be Twitter and TweetDeck or something, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:42 Chris Dixon Um, you know, the, they're famous, there are books written about all the stuff that Microsoft did, and huge antitrust case, and everything else, around all the things they did to fight with their complements, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:43 Chris Dixon And the information superhighway was going to be, like, it was like Comcast and Disney and Microsoft, and they were, they were, like, running broadband fibers into, like, a town in Florida.
- ▶ 35:25 Chris Dixon So, an example I like to use, it's not, it's not a strict analogy, but it's Wikipedia versus Encarta. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:30 Chris Dixon So Encarta was a Microsoft-owned Encyclopedia product 2 times in the scene
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