Forethought
company on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 8 times in 5 episodes since 2019
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Valiante: Anxious People Create Their Own Anxiety by Over-Indexing on the Future
“Forethought tends to lead to people over-indexing to the future. So essentially what we start asking is, what if questions? What if I, what if this plane crashes? Oh my god. We know that people who are anxious are, live in the future. They create their own anx…”
PowerPoint creator Forethought was Microsoft's first major acquisition
“Forethought was the company that made PowerPoint. Microsoft acquired the first major acquisition for the company.”
Enterprise search is solved by targeting specific interactions, not search bars
“Where in his opinion, if you really wanted to solve the problem of enterprise search, it was actually, you go narrow, not broad. Search isn't actually a text box anymore. It's the interactions that people internally or externally are having with the informatio…”