MSN
product on 18 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 60 times in 31 episodes since 2015
Acquired 9 
Top Founders 8 
How I Built This 7 
the a16z Podcast 7 
All-In 5 
20VC 5 
A Product Market Fit Show 4 
Cheeky Pint 3 
We Live to Build 2 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
the Neon Show 2 
Another Podcast 1 
BG2 Pod 1 
American Optimist 1 
the Knowledge Project 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
TBPN 1 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath
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Acquired 9Top Founders 8the a16z Podcast 7How I Built This 720VC 5All-In 5A Product Market Fit Show 4Cheeky Pint 39 more shows
2025 10 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ChatGPT Turns Three, OpenAI x Thrive, David Sacks vs. The New York Times | Diet TBPN
- 1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- He bootstrapped to $4M ARR in 2 years. Here's his LinkedIn playbook you can't ignore. | Noah Gree... · PMF Show
- Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 21 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- He gave up on chasing unicorns. Now he earns $500K+/year from his 3-person startup. | Rand Fishki... · PMF Show
- Inflated GDP?, Google earnings, How the media lost trust, Rogan/Trump search controversy, Election!
- Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- Raman Malik: Inside Perplexity’s Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | E1226 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2019 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
- Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- 1337 How RedisLabs Scaled to $60m+ in ARR More Efficiently than MongoDB
- a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
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2018 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2015 1 mention in 1 episode
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3 statements about MSN, every show
Nadella: Early Microsoft doubted TCP/IP would work over quality-of-service concerns
“Remember, the quality, like, I don't think we believed that TCP IP would work. Right. I mean, at some level, the information highway when I look at what we were trying to do was, man, this quality of service is a thing, this TCP IP, what, it just is not going …”
Barton's Microsoft team secretly pivoted Expedia from MSN to the open web
“We were building for MSN, which we recognized wasn't going to probably succeed as a platform. And so we quietly pivoted to building a web app and we kind of didn't tell anybody. And so we launched, we never launched on MSN, we launched on the broad internet.”