Microsoft, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Building a $20B+ Open Source Business with MongoDB and Viam's Eliot Horowitz
- ▶ 6:02 Eliot Horowitz Oracle and SQL server and that whole side of it.
- ▶ 28:26 Eliot Horowitz There's no PowerPoint.
Mastering Your Data with Sajith Wickramasekara
- ▶ 22:47 Sajith Wickramasekara Yeah, my, I'll give you my sort of general approach to, to competition, which is, like, competition, like, I would say one thing actually that's probably worse about vertical companies is you, the markets are not as competitive as…
The 2025 AI Search Race
- ▶ 1:03 Alex Immerman Microsoft Bing, which has been the number two player for a long time, mid single digit market share, so pretty small, they have twelve billion of revenue.
- ▶ 11:58 Alex Immerman They are not investing the capex like Meta and Google and Microsoft and Amazon, but they control a central node to the consumer, and if they wanted to build a search application, the next day they could have a billion users.
Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- ▶ 41:06 Marc Andreessen So, um, Doug Burgum is one of my best friends in, in politics and, and as governor, very, you know, by the way, tech and business legend, Microsoft, longtime Microsoft executive, great founder of a great software company called Great Plain… 2 times in the scene
Can We Detect a Deepfake?
- ▶ 28:49 Martin Casado Microsoft and Google for, for the spam detection doing the same type of thing for the planet.
How to Build a Thriving AI Ecosystem with Lisa Su, CEO of AMD
Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
- ▶ 13:16 David George Because they also are in the business of renting, renting this compute out, um, or at least in the case of Google and Microsoft, they are.
AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
- ▶ 2:49 Kim Branson This is sort of pre, you know, this is pre-Bing, this is the ideas of PowerSet and Bleco, if you remember that, and a whole bunch of, um, search things, so I went, some friends of mine were building a search engine, um,
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 24:55 Ben Horowitz You know, Microsoft didn't own it.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 34:12 Ben Horowitz The internet as we know it probably doesn't happen in that the kind of Microsoft alternative, the Oracle alternative, um, would have had an opportunity to gain a network effect.
- ▶ 35:38 Marc Andreessen Um, and that was, uh, specifically Microsoft with MSN. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:37 Marc Andreessen We're just going to assume that everybody has like windows or a Mac, um, or a Unix workstation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:56 Marc Andreessen And then we, we had other colleagues, um, who, um, you know, who are, you know, very, very famous in the history, um, who developed the Windows version and developed the Mac version.
- ▶ 1:18:15 Marc Andreessen Um, getting to the Windows and the Mac versions were, were a key moment, because, you know, they followed, um,
- ▶ 1:26:56 Ben Horowitz Your TCP IP stack for Windows, all that.
- ▶ 1:52:23 Marc Andreessen Yeah, it's a little frustrating, um, but, you know, again, they have the legal right to do it, but like, it's a little frustrating, um, and, uh, it was fine, and we're, you know, we're competing with them, whatever, but it's a little bit… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:52:23 Marc Andreessen Yeah, it's a little frustrating, um, but, you know, again, they have the legal right to do it, but like, it's a little frustrating, um, and, uh, it was fine, and we're, you know, we're competing with them, whatever, but it's a little bit… 2 times in the scene
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 4:39 Ben Horowitz Um, I feel like a positive example of this was, you know, Microsoft eventually got to such a who like his background was building stuff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:09 Ben Horowitz And I know that, uh, you know, such as very focused on it at Microsoft and I'm sure Sundar's focused on it.
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 0:27 Ben Horowitz Literally the current position of Google and Microsoft right now.
- ▶ 5:36 Ben Horowitz I would say like extremely promising that are kind of ostensibly, but not really competing with open AI or Google or, uh, Microsoft.
- ▶ 19:48 Marc Andreessen And then even, you know, just, or even other, other, another, another improvement area is basically, um, there was at the five Microsoft released their five small language model yesterday, and apparently, apparently it's like, it's, it's…
- ▶ 51:06 Ben Horowitz And then there's this kind of in between question, which is what data would you want to let Microsoft or Google or open AI or anybody get their grubby little fingers on?
- ▶ 1:13:05 Ben Horowitz This is literally the current position of Google and Microsoft right now.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 52:59 Ben Horowitz The Microsoft one, Tay, off the handle from time to time.
Marco Argenti (Goldman Sachs): Turning Developers into Clients
- ▶ 4:23 Marco Argenti And we built, uh, uh, you know, also in collaboration with Microsoft, we built some of the largest online store back then, online stores back then in the US.
Marty Chavez (Sixth Street): Finding a Single Source of AI Truth
- ▶ 11:29 Marty Chavez Object-oriented database that's going to contain our foreign exchange trading business, which is a global, inherently a global business that we can't trade out of Excel spreadsheets, and we need somebody to write a database from scratch…
- ▶ 24:51 David Haber Fortune 100 is using maybe GitHub Copilot in some new organization or Microsoft AI product.
- ▶ 30:57 Marty Chavez To me, that is the exact equivalent of saying, let's make Microsoft
- ▶ 31:02 Marty Chavez Liable for every bad thing that someone does on a Windows computer, right?
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 13:15 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, they didn't really have, you know, and probably most famously Microsoft
- ▶ 24:25 Ben Horowitz So look, I definitely think, and by the way, right, you know, I mean, I should full disclosure, uh, when we were at Netscape, um, we w we were certainly on the side of little tech against big tech and, you know, Microsoft at that time had…
- ▶ 43:49 Ben Horowitz Probably, you know, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, um, um, you know, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:49 Marc Andreessen Uh, the Meta, you know, you can, you kind of mentioned the big companies being Microsoft, Google, Meta. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:54 Ben Horowitz Like we go to the China model that Google and Microsoft are advocating for this Chinese model of only a few can control AI.
The Electric Grid, Explained
- ▶ 29:28 Ryan McEntush Um, you can see, you know, in the news, you've seen Microsoft and some of the other hyperscalers talk about, we want to do nuclear powered data centers.
Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora
- ▶ 5:18 Adam D'Angelo So this is things like building applications across iOS and Android and Windows and Mac, localization of the interface,
- ▶ 25:49 David George And you know, if you just sum up Microsoft and Google's business apps and all these things, it's probably somewhere between 10 and twenty billion dollars of revenue over the next one to two years.
A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?
- ▶ 21:13 David Ulevitch And then companies like Microsoft have spun up nuclear teams, nuclear energy teams to figure out how do they procure energy that comes from a nuclear power plant.
Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA
- ▶ 33:56 Nand Mulchandani Uh, that we're, well, I think the US government is thinking about this writ large is, so, um, uh, when you go talk to universities right now, one point they make is they don't have the compute power to be able to rival Microsoft and OpenAI…
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 4:16 Kathleen Hicks It's more than what Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft combined spent on R&D last year.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 25:06 Ben Horowitz I think it originally started probably with windows and PCs, but then, um, you know, kind of over time where if the platform provider 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:44 Chris Dixon Um, these, these platform decisions, I would actually argue, Ben, with respect to Microsoft, maybe this is a loaded topic with this group, but, uh, I would actually argue they're in some ways benign, relatively like Bill Gates always said… 4 times in the scene
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 45:27 Marc Andreessen So grading on a curve used to be more common, I think, both in educational settings and also in employee evaluation settings, and, you know, companies like Microsoft used to do it kind of famously, um, and GE, 3 times in the scene