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Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired Apr 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:32:57 Ben Gilbert Now, they haven't acquired PowerPoint yet, or Forethought, as we talked about eight years ago on Acquired.

ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired Oct 4, 2022 · 1 mention

Benchmark Part I · Acquired Sep 28, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 16:24 David Rosenthal Forethought.
  • ▶ 16:34 David Rosenthal And Forethought were the makers of a little Mac application that then became a Windows application called PowerPoint.
  • ▶ 16:45 David Rosenthal Forethought, of course, got acquired by Microsoft, absorbed into the office juggernaut, and that their campus there in the Quadris office complex became Microsoft's original Silicon Valley
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