Microsoft Copilot

product on 36 shows · 29 statements across 27 episodes · said 409 times in 186 episodes since 2023

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29 statements about Microsoft Copilot, every show

TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Partly supported
Danzy brought AI to Excel and Sheets before Copilot and Gemini
“We were first in bringing AI in Excel and Sheet way before Copilot, way before Gemini and Sheet.”
Stéphane Danzy Aug 18, 2026 ▶ 7:12 Why Does Google Pay Him $2M A Year?
NEON SHOW Assertion Supported
Zoom AI Companion beat Microsoft Copilot to market by two weeks
“We wanted to beat Microsoft to market, and we did beat Copilot to market by a couple of weeks.”
Mahesh Ram Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 14:05 The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
20VC Disclosure
Jain: Glean loses more sales to Microsoft Copilot than to frontier labs
“If we look at our experience with as we go and prospect the, I think we would hear this answer more often that, well, like, you know, we are a Microsoft customer and we already have, you know, we're getting co-pilot. And so, therefore, like, it doesn't make se…”
Arvind Jain Jul 11, 2026 ▶ 20:07 ⁠Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Bayramov: Using Copilot for Code Reviews Exposes Proprietary Codebases to AI
“Engineers, they're using like Things like plot code, or they're using Microsoft Copilot to increase their productivity to do faster code reviews. That's that, that's the benefits, but at the same time, you're basically giving a full access to your full code ba…”
Anar Bayramov Jun 16, 2026 ▶ 8:30 Securing the AI Frontier with Anar Bayramov of Polygraf | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
MORE OR LESS Assertion Supported
Dave Morin: Copilot Has Around 20 Million Paid Seats
“Like, it's like, twenty million paid seats or something like that in Copilot.”
Dave Morin May 15, 2026 ▶ 37:33 Google's AI-First Laptop, Meta's Spy Games, AI Monks in Middle America · More or Less Podcast
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Evans: Initial enterprise deployments of Microsoft Copilot were largely unsuccessful
“Everyone deployed co-pilot and went, oh, okay, that wasn't very successful.”
Benedict Evans Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 53:32 Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
20VC Assertion Supported
Junestrand: Legora beats Harvey as top UK law firm AI tool
“I was on Bloomberg a couple of weeks back and they had a big infographic that said that the most deployed generative AI tool in the top 200 law firms in the UK outside of Microsoft Copilot is Legora. Number two was Harvey.”
Max Junestrand Jan 26, 2026 ▶ 3:15 Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
SAASTR Opinion
Lemkin: Customers Rejected Microsoft's $20 Per Month Word Copilot
“No one wanted to pay an extra 20 bucks a month to talk to word. Okay. That was the great innovation. And even Microsoft couldn't get people to buy that. It doesn't work. No one wants a mediocre co-pilot.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 2, 2026 ▶ 46:06 AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind | Jason Lemkin
CHEEKY PINT Assertion Supported
Nadella: Microsoft Copilot supports both OpenAI models and Anthropic's Claude
“On Copilot today, you use OpenAI models, you use even Claude, right? I need the system to work across both of those.”
Satya Nadella Nov 18, 2025 ▶ 8:33 Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
BIG TECHNOLOGY Disclosure
Suleyman: Copilot Surpasses 100 Million Users Across All Surfaces
“Our consumer product is growing from strength to strength. You know, we just crossed a hundred million. Wow. Across all our co-pilot surfaces.”
Mustafa Suleyman Nov 12, 2025 ▶ 33:13 Could LLMs Be The Route To Superintelligence? — With Mustafa Suleyman
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Abel: Most enterprise clients cite Gemini and Copilot over Anthropic
“Most enterprises I'm talking to mention Gemini. Yeah, or Microsoft Copilot. So I don't hear much about Anthropic, to be honest.”
Jen Abel Nov 9, 2025 ▶ 36:24 $1M to $10M: The enterprise sales playbook with Jen Abel
BG2 Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nadella: Copilot adoption pace is bigger than any Microsoft product in decades
“In fact, one of the things about Microsoft three six five was what was the next big thing after E five? Guess what? We found it in co-pilot. It's bigger than any suite. Like, you know, we talk about penetration and usage and the pace. It's bigger than anything…”
Satya Nadella Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 41:32 All things AI w @altcap @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥BG2 w/ Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
TBPN Assertion Partly supported
Houston: Copilot lacks Slack context and Gemini lacks Salesforce data
“Copilot doesn't know about your Slack and Gemini doesn't know about your Salesforce.”
Drew Houston Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 15:40 Are AI Agents Further Away Than We Think? | Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Joins TBPN
MIXERGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shim: Microsoft Copilot launch drove 15x surge in Teams usage on Read.ai
“We've seen more than a 15 X increase in Microsoft team meetings that we've measured since Microsoft Copilot launched for teams meetings.”
David Shim Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 37:15 #2280 Read.ai is adding 50k users per day
BIG TECHNOLOGY Disclosure
Suleyman: Copilot will take control of Windows mouse to execute tasks
“Things like it will now be able to take control of your mouse on windows, navigate around, show you, for example, where to turn on a particular setting or to fill out a form or like you may not know how to edit a photo and it'll point out where you need to adj…”
Mustafa Suleyman Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 5:35 Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Building AI Personality
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Suleyman: Copilot uses real-time classifiers to block romantic attachment
“We have classifiers that detect for any of that kind of interaction in real time and will very respectfully and, but very clearly and very firmly push back before anything like that develops. So we have a very, very low instance rate of that.”
Mustafa Suleyman Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 14:33 Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Building AI Personality
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: SimilarWeb Data Shows Gemini at 10.9M and DeepSeek at 16.5M Daily Visits
“Google's Gemini web traffic grew to 10.9 million average daily visits worldwide in March. That's up seven, four, 7.4% month over month, while daily visits to Copilot, that's Microsoft's bot, Increased to 2.4 million, up 2.1% from February. SimilarWeb also says…”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 19:44 OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
20VC Opinion
Torres: Nobody is using Microsoft Copilot because the product doesn't work
“Copilot, everybody was like, they're just ahead making all the money first because people, the problem is people are, they just have so much hard time trusting someone, right? And so they're reaping the benefit of being early, But nobody's using the product, r…”
Elias Torres Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 13:34 Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Benioff calls Microsoft Copilot 'really a terrible product'
“And I'm running aggressive marketing against Microsoft because they have really a terrible product co-pilot that I'm have to position against and market against.”
Marc Benioff Dec 22, 2024 ▶ 20:45 Behind the founder: Marc Benioff
BG2 Opinion
Nadella: Only four AI products qualify as true hit applications
“In fact, we talk a lot more about AI scale, but there is not that many hit apps, right? There is ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, there's Copilot, and there's Gemini. I think those are the four. I would say in a DAO, like, is there anything else that comes to your min…”
Satya Nadella Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 44:53 Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Only 4 of 123 surveyed IT leaders saw major Copilot value
“In October, when the management consultancy Gartner published a survey of 123 IT leaders, only four said co-pilot provided significant value to their companies.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 24, 2024 ▶ 34:10 OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: 40% of IT managers delayed Copilot due to security fears
“In the Gartner survey, 40% of IT managers said their company has delayed implementing the tool for at least three months, citing oversharing and security concerns.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 24, 2024 ▶ 41:15 OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Many enterprise customers say Microsoft Copilot is falling flat
“Look at like Microsoft Copilot, I mean, Many customers are saying it's falling flat. Like, it's just not delivering the value that was advertised.”
AJ Tennant Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 26:42 AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Houston: Dropbox is not building a Copilot or Gemini competitor
“You know, we also know there's like infinity investment going into like the work agents. So we're not really building like a copilot or Gemini competitor.”
Drew Houston Oct 18, 2024 ▶ 34:48 Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
ALL-IN Opinion
Benioff calls Microsoft Copilot a universal failure and a complete disaster
“I think in the last few years, what we've kind of heard, and you know, some of it has come from OpenAI, but especially from Microsoft, that we're in this co-pilot world, and these co-pilots have universally failed. The level of accuracy, the spillage of inform…”
Marc Benioff Sep 15, 2024 ▶ 30:10 Marc Benioff | All-In Summit 2024
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gomez: Microsoft Copilot will not achieve complete enterprise workforce augmentation
“I think Copilot is great, and it's like the right idea of augmenting a workforce with a, with an assistant but it's siloed, again, within an ecosystem, so it's, it plugs into Office and, you know, the Microsoft suite of products, but enterprises don't just use…”
Aidan Gomez Aug 19, 2024 ▶ 42:54 Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Moore: Microsoft Copilot is a low-risk Main Street adoption product
“If you go to Chat to Microsoft Copilot. You're on Main Street. You're not taking any risk. You're experimenting with a new thing. It's kind of cool. Makes you more productive. God bless. You know, it's just kind of like just an add-on to Teams or to your whole…”
Geoffrey Moore Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 59:49 Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market
MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Contradicted
Hoffman: Developers accept over 50% of Microsoft Copilot code suggestions
“In the Microsoft co-pilot product, developers who are using it for the suggestion of code that they're writing are accepting over 50% of the code suggestions.”
Reid Hoffman Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 15:58 Reid Hoffman confronts the AI critics | Masters of Scale
Gerstner: Microsoft Copilot is the fastest-growing product in company history
“Co-pilot, which has 30,000 beta customers at Microsoft, I think is the fastest growing product in the history of Microsoft.”
Brad Gerstner Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 16:20 Ep 67: Brad Gerstner on the AI Supercycle & Restoring Faith in Capitalism · Joe Lonsdale

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