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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Microsoft Access comes up on A Product Market Fit Show, Another Podcast, Top Founders, the MAD Podcast, 20VC
Most people and companies aren't tool-builders
- ▶ 0:27 Benedict Evans And I kind of looked at this a little bit and scratched my head and thought, so is this, you mean the way Microsoft Access destroyed databases?
- ▶ 10:54 Benedict Evans And to go back in our previous generation, I mean, I mentioned in part of the passing access, which I don't think access even exists anymore, but like nobody will need databases anymore because you can just make your own with access. 2 times in the scene
Compliance at scale and why TAM is a distraction with Christina Cacioppo of Vanta
- ▶ 35:33 John Collison They had servers in the closet, they had Microsoft Access database.
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 1:07:45 John Collison This impression I have is that when you took over Microsoft, you shifted the culture from a highly bundled, you'll buy your Windows machines, and they're running Microsoft Access, and you know, every, their SQL Server, and everything is…
Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 6:12 Brett Queener And I built a custom database on the old people in the room, like Access, Visual Basic, and Fox Pro, where I built a
How his $2B startup grew to $10M+ ARR with zero marketing. | Avery Pennarun, Founder of Tailscale · PMF Show
- ▶ 6:45 Avery Pennarun My favorite example is like back in the 19 nineties, Microsoft Access was really popular. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:35 Avery Pennarun What if it was more like the world of like the 19 nineties where there was no internet and this like Microsoft access app, which had lots of features, but was certainly not secure. 2 times in the scene
He didn't raise VC for the first 7 years— then grew to $1B in ARR. | Dax Dasilva, Founder of Ligh... · PMF Show
- ▶ 6:49 Dax Dasilva They were the, the reason why we did take funding for the first seven years, you know, these, these initial customers, the dealerships, basically, instead of each of them building their own FileMaker or Microsoft Access database, which is…
DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- ▶ 1:18:18 Aaron Levie Uh, you do that in Microsoft access.
He grew to $90M ARR, was about to exit for $1.5B—and then, it all fell apart. | Yanni Giannaros, ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:27 Yanni Giannaros They posted something in the intranet in there, like Microsoft access, like internet or at all of the Bitcoin white paper.
Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:42 Dax Dasilva It was like a, you know, an access, Microsoft Access database, homegrown.
These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 15:32 Manav Garg Let me create a small database in access first. 2 times in the scene
Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
- ▶ 10:30 Benedict Evans It's like trying to build, it's like trying to build Gmail with access.
GPT-4 is here, now what?
- ▶ 29:06 Benedict Evans Adding sharing to access or adding sharing to, um, to Photoshop.
Flooring engineers builds tool for himself, breaks $11k MRR as 1 person team
From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
- ▶ 44:42 Ramon Van Meer He gave me a book about Microsoft database access, access database programming.
20VC: Why "Founder Insight" is Overrated, Why Big and Bold Product Visions Can Be Dangerous & Why Getting To Product Market Fit by Accident Can Lead to Danger with Hubert Palan, Founder & CEO @ ProductBoard
- ▶ 20:57 Hubert Palan And just like with Excel, like Microsoft Access, I don't know whether you remember, remember, but you would build your CRM in a spreadsheet or in Microsoft Access, right? 2 times in the scene
Slack, Salesforce and the future of work
- ▶ 22:22 Bernadette Kevins As I was saying, if you, if anyone remembers using Microsoft Access, like, you could probably write an email client in Microsoft Access using the scripting tools. 2 times in the scene
Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
- ▶ 13:47 Dan Martell Grabbing this magazine, hiring my little brother Mo for like two bucks an hour, three bucks an hour to sit there and transfer all the addresses and information into a Microsoft Access database.
Episode 505 | 42 Side Projects and the #NoCode Movement
- ▶ 22:29 Helen Ryles Yeah, Boundless is more focused on the sort of app calculators, that kind of side, in terms of like the functionality of Excel, or even going back, you know, into Access and things like that.
20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 39:50 Mike Tuchen and, you know, having lived through the multiple iterations of this, we saw, you know, the spreadsheet hell problem, we saw the Access database problem, we saw the SharePoint sprawl problem.
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down
- ▶ 5:50 unnamed speaker That's when we started building the real platform before it was really just, um, access databases and it's on the spreadsheets.