Nadella: Copilot is Microsoft's fastest-adopted Office product in history
“I mean, you know, I always say, at least compared to anything we have done in terms of all the office suites over our history, this is the fastest.”
Jessica Lessin: In-office employees work fewer hours due to psychological shifts
“People are just going into the office for fewer hours on the days they go into the office because the psychology shifted and Getting up at your desk at four or five PM is, feels very different post COVID than it did before.”
Gurley: Microsoft is a clear net winner from generative AI
“People looked at the Microsoft portfolio of assets, especially where they make money around the office suite, right? And said, and the developer community where they also, you know, control a lot of the IDEs that are used to program. And they said, oh, this is…”
Walling: Getting an Office as a Startup Is an Anti-Pattern
“Getting an office in this day and age as a startup is an anti-pattern now.”
Evans: Crypto builders must make products uniquely enabled by crypto
“Don't clone office, make Google drive. Like that's making something that where it matters that it's the internet, make something where it matters that it's crypto.”
Evans: Video calls eliminate peripheral vision and serendipitous workplace interactions
“The problem with a video call is there's no peripheral vision. So you can't kind of see what else is going on. You can't see what other people are looking at or thinking about. You're sitting in an office, you can't hear what other people are doing. You can't …”
Evans: 'Who's in the office?' is the defining quote of 2021
“The quote of twenty-twenty was you're on mute, and the quote of twenty-twenty-one is, who's in the office?”
Evans: The idea that a standalone YouTube would build a search engine is insane
“Like, I genuinely heard somebody say the other day that if YouTube was a separate The company, the first thing it would do would be make a general purpose web search engine and compete with Google. You're out of your fucking mind. That's like saying that if yo…”
Nahm: Remote work demands communication systems that physical offices get free
“You've got to build a culture that can support remote work as a first class citizen. And I think there's some people that really nail it and they think about the details. They think about how meetings work. They think about how information's transferred. They …”