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▶ 35:47 Ben Gilbert One was effectively Microsoft Paint for two-D animation, where you could look at all the lines on a computer, you could select a color, you could bring over your little paint tool, and dump your bucket of color into an enclosed area.
▶ 36:00 Ben Gilbert It sounds like I'm describing something that you're like, yes, we've all used MS Paint, but this was
▶ 1:17:36 David Rosenthal Uh, they acquire Starwave, Paul Allen's company, uh, after Microsoft.

▶ 1:56:27 Ben Gilbert And to me, it really symbolizes that animators are the crown of Disney in this era, in the way that at Google, it's engineers, and at Apple, it's designers, and at Microsoft, it's PMs.

▶ 2:43:21 Ben Gilbert They got me when I started my first job at Microsoft
▶ 2:46:04 Ben Gilbert This is like Vanguard is Microsoft and Fidelity is Google, and they could launch Gmail and say that thing, that's your primary business.
▶ 3:22:01 Ben Gilbert Apple, Microsoft, Google, it's all 20% plus these big, uh, Vanguard, Fidelity, BlackRock, State Street, et cetera.
▶ 3:36:00 David Rosenthal Oh, uh, Microsoft.
▶ 3:36:02 Ben Gilbert Microsoft.

▶ 54:42 David Rosenthal Chat SDK, which lets you build agents across Slack, Teams, Google Chat, Discord, and more, all from a single code base.
▶ 3:57:18 Ben Gilbert Folks at Microsoft, uh, here in Seattle, who then would have a second career actually working for Ferrari.

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