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The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 23:38 Alex Rampell Um, their modes matter, in fact, more than ever, because the one thing that's happened in software is once upon a time there was a company called WordPerfect, and WordPerfect kind of like kept growing for a very, very long time, or once… 3 times in the scene
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 23:01 Keith Rabois Although I grew up with WordPerfect, but it's for the point.
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 30:29 Steven Sinofsky Microsoft came along and, for Windows, built print drivers and a clipboard, and all of a sudden, and also Macintosh did it, all of a sudden, you, there was a way that two applications that had no a priori knowledge of each other, but of… 2 times in the scene
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 20:42 Steven Sinofsky Windows, we were, Windows hadn't cemented itself yet, and we were still coming from behind relative to Lotus and WordPerfect and, and other products. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 16:44 Steven Sinofsky And we, you know, I certainly firmly believe, and we, and we had already experienced this once at Microsoft, where we ran DOS programs on a GUI, and you just, like, started up in a window, and people had all of the same complaints back…
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 23:38 Alex Rampell They did a lot of things that were anti-competitive and monopolistic, and they drove WordPerfect out of business, and they drove Netscape out of business.
a16z Podcast | Engineering a Revolution at Work
- ▶ 7:40 Steven Sinofsky In every module of every productivity tool, tools that Microsoft makes, tools that other companies make, and part of that reason is because those tools were all created in an era where actually getting the software into somebody's computer… 3 times in the scene