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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Xbox comes up on TBPN, Acquired, the a16z Podcast, How I Built This, the Startup Ideas Podcast
Astra Reactions, Jobs Print, Cybercab Launch | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:25 unnamed speaker It's gotta be running on a PC, on Steam, or on a PS five, or on an Xbox.
Big Companies Hiring Again, Anthropic's Open-Weight Position, Zuck Backs AI for All | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:07 unnamed speaker but I, I think, uh, one of my favorite posts was the, and, and obviously these circumstances are never great, but the new CEO of Xbox came out and just was like very honest about the situation.
Senior Decision Makers: Luis Laboy, Hewlett Foundation (EP.512)
- ▶ 47:30 Luis Laboy It's definitely there, and it's bad enough because my nephew heard about it, and he sent me his Xbox, and I am not a video gamer, but I have to tell you, in our living room now, I have a wheel, pedals, and I even bought the seat, and now…
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 38:58 Mehul Nariyawala So if you were Microsoft Kinect was, it came with, uh, uh, their, uh, game, uh, game, gaming console, Xbox, Xbox, and you could use Kinect as a gesture detection.
Model Mayhem: OpenAI’s 5.6 and Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:50 unnamed speaker But, um, the, the interesting dynamic is that when you are willing to sell API access, you're willing to sell compute directly, and then you're also using your own tool internally.
Ben Thompson Explains the XBOX Disaster
- ▶ 0:46 unnamed speaker Uh, I want to talk about the meta narrative, but, uh, can we start with Xbox?
- ▶ 0:51 unnamed speaker I want to know, first, let's go back in time a little bit, and I want you to reality check me on the, the, the story I tell myself about how Microsoft wound up in the situation it wound up in with Xbox, and I think it stems with DirectX,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:45 Ben Thompson So the way I think about Xbox is you go back to Microsoft and Microsoft had this whole thing. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:44 unnamed speaker I always found it very odd that they went from Xbox to Xbox three, 60. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:05 Ben Thompson I wrote multiple times of the years they should give up on Xbox. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:17 Ben Thompson I mean, I don't envy, I don't envy Xbox's leadership at all. 4 times in the scene
XBOX Layoffs, Tesla's New Model Y, $12.8M Lottery Dispute | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:28 John Coogan Anyway, big changes at Microsoft, big changes at Xbox. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:05 Jordi Hays So maybe Asha wants the new culture at Xbox to be thrilling and a little unnerving. 5 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:58 Jason Lemkin It just has, it's, it's, it's a conglomerate with, it's got Xbox, which I'm not a total expert on, and a whole bunch of pieces.
Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
- ▶ 1:09:16 Gavin Baker Microsoft raised the price of the Xbox.
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen’s $56B Plan to Take Over eBay
- ▶ 17:52 Ryan Cohen The original thesis was that there's an upcoming console cycle and that they're probably going to survive until the upcoming console cycle and the new PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox comes out.
Snap SPECS, Taste Labs Timeline Turmoil, AI Execs at G7 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:35 unnamed speaker Plug the HDMI from the Xbox into the device.
SpaceX S-1, Anthropic Revenue Booms, OpenAI Cracks Erdős Problem | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:28 John Coogan Uh, but Matthew Ball is back at Xbox. 3 times in the scene
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 59:05 David Baszucki They're playing on a phone, a tablet, a computer, iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Xbox, PlayStation, MetaQuest.
The Truth Behind the “Solo Founder Billion Dollar Company”
- ▶ 21:15 John Coogan Around AI, specifically around the art generation, like pixel art generation, all of that, but if you think about AI as a tool for writing game logic, and particularly, like, re-platforming, it took him, I want to say, like, a full year,…
Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
- ▶ 12:43 Shawn Wang She's now CEO of Xbox.
S2E8: Indian Mythology x Gaming: The Age of Bhaarat ft. Amish Tripathi & Mukul Deora
- ▶ 49:09 Mukul Deora Some of them would see their kids with a console, you know, with a PS five or Xbox.
- ▶ 1:01:26 Mukul Deora It's been going on for a bit before because all these console games, um, are typically need a very high end machine, you know, for the graphics and everything, the Xbox, et cetera.
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz on a16z’s New Media Strategy
- ▶ 44:48 Marc Andreessen Um, but, but basically, like, it, it actually turns out there's, like, a, a, a, a genealogy to it, and it actually turns out, like, a lot of it is literally, literally, it's, uh, it's like Call of Duty lobbies, um, uh, for online gaming,…
OpenAI drops GPT-5.4, Iran War fallout, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 29:01 unnamed speaker All right, we got a new Xbox. 2 times in the scene
What The Citrini Selloff Says About the Stock Market
- ▶ 9:52 John Coogan Like, if Xbox goes away, 9 times in the scene
Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:59 John Coogan Like if Xbox goes away, as people are predicting doom around Xbox, PlayStation gets a lot. 9 times in the scene
Citrini Research’s viral piece, AI and the economy, 90s Nostalgia | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:22 unnamed speaker A Walkman, a Game Boy, an Xbox. 3 times in the scene
Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.
- ▶ 4:32 John Coogan Even Sony and Xbox, like, they can, they don't need to go to CES, even if they have a presence, it, it takes away from, like, the aura and importance of those events.
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 55:39 Tobi Lütke Are there like, is like one chip get really hot next to a soldering thing, but like, you know, I remember the original Xbox desordered itself if you just played certain games too long.
20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
- ▶ 4:08 Luke Harries So we each won an Xbox and immediately put that on eBay.
CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:12 unnamed speaker The lineup of stuff that launched at CES, the Atari Pong console in 1975, the CD player launched in 1981 at CES, the Commodore 64, 1982, the DVD at 1996, the Xbox 7 times in the scene
Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
- ▶ 10:04 Guy Raz Alright, so you moved to Seattle to start working on what is gonna become the Xbox, and what was your role? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:24 Elan Lee Jordan brought Steven Spielberg into my office and said, he's got this new movie coming out called AI, and we're going to do a collection of Xbox games. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:36 Elan Lee And two is, Microsoft immediately wanted us to get started on, uh, the Xbox three 60, the second Xbox. 2 times in the scene
A.R. Rahman: The Genius Who Took Indian Music Global | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF | Ep 15 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:13:53 A. R. Rahman So that's one of the reasons I don't play video games, no PlayStation, no Xbox, and all that stuff, because I don't want to sit in front of a, and I wanted to try something organic.
Google Gemini 3 Reactions, Google Antigravity, Anthropic-Nvidia-Microsoft Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:32 unnamed speaker Build the same Xbox controller in Minecraft.
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 1:05:48 John Collison It's available on the Xbox, and that makes sense.
Blue Origin Lands Rocket, Valve Drops Steam Machine, Cantor Group Surges | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:57 John Coogan Uh, for a fraction of the price and headache, they'll be able to play PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and indie games. 2 times in the scene
How AI Will Change Gaming Forever | Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki Live on TBPN
- ▶ 8:20 Dave Baszucki does a game run on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Xbox, PlayStation, Quest, and more to come?
20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 1:18:55 Tim Ferriss The relationship side, like Alon Lee, the co-founder of Exploding Kittens, worked on the first Xbox.
No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- ▶ 19:35 Alex Rampell Um, or Xbox wants to sell more things, or, you know, Lexus wants to sell more cars.
Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
- ▶ 4:14 Chamath Palihapitiya Specifically, who I'm talking about are folks like Microsoft and Xbox. 3 times in the scene
Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
- ▶ 27:09 Mason Morfit We didn't yet know what to do with Bing or what to do with Xbox.
- ▶ 43:14 Rob Hale On a CD-ROM transitioning to subscription, Xbox was our first exposure to the video game industry, and that went from being a very difficult industry with lots of boom-bust cycles, huge inventories required to distribute the software to a… 2 times in the scene
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 30:19 Dylan Patel Like, I heard a rumor that, or not a rumor, but like a story from someone who's like a graybeard in the industry, and I think would know, was like, yeah, no, no, no, like, Nvidia ordered the volume for the Xbox before Microsoft gave them…
Senior Care with AI: Compassionate Companion Robots with Intuition Robotics
- ▶ 33:25 Ronan Soffer The relationships between them and the humans, they need to serve with value, just like this does, and my nav system does, and my kid's Xbox does, ok?
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 1:50:28 Casey Neistat Um, I'm guilty of sometimes playing Call of Duty on my Xbox, but that doesn't work out when you got a wife and kids.
CASEY NEISTAT on Why Analog Is The Future
- ▶ 2:23 Casey Neistat Um, I'm guilty of sometimes playing Call of Duty on my Xbox, but that doesn't work out when you got a wife and kids.
Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- ▶ 2:25:15 Jordi Hays oh, I'm gonna happily give away my, my new, my VR Xbox.
Meta Poaches OpenAI Engineers
- ▶ 25:11 unnamed speaker oh, I'm gonna happily give away my, my new, my VR Xbox.
Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi
- ▶ 45:44 Shaan Puri There's people who build mobile games and Xbox games, but there's nobody who builds car games.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:04:27 Steve Ballmer Xbox, Surface, phone.
- ▶ 1:04:34 Steve Ballmer I think the guy who actually runs hardware design used to be on Xbox.
- ▶ 1:33:13 David Rosenthal If we call Nvidia's first trick a full trick, then Xbox is a full trick.
- ▶ 1:55:52 Steve Ballmer I highlight that 98 to 2004 were kind of tough years plus Xbox.
- ▶ 2:00:26 Steve Ballmer Yeah, we did make a good decision to do Xbox.
Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
- ▶ 23:36 Michael Acton Smith We'd sit playing FIFA on our Xbox in evenings, uh, talking about business and ideas, and we'd throw great dinners and, and parties.
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 5:10 Luke Harries So we each won an Xbox and immediately put that on eBay.
#90 How Startups Can Succeed in a Pandemic 2
- ▶ 1:43 Sarah Downey So I literally have two PlayStations, an Xbox, a Nintendo Switch, an Oculus.
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 12:00 Josh Wolfe And that's what people thought about CPUs back in the day, and then GPUs for just, you know, traditional video graphics, and then the AI researchers came and said, well, wait a second, we can run these convolutional neural nets on these…
#24 unGlue
- ▶ 2:37 Alon Schwartz I decide to put an end to this, I just unplug all of the computer, the Xbox, took his phone, took his tablet, threw it on my bed.
#93 David vs. Godzilla
- ▶ 1:44 Alon Schwartz Well, you know, just to be sure, I come back 20 minutes later, and of course, he's taking a break, and at that point, that's it, I see red, that's it, I decide to put an end to this, I just unplug all of the computer, the Xbox, took his… 2 times in the scene
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 38:42 Steven Sinofsky No, we, Xbox, like, the government came to, or, or, like, actually, 2048 bit encryption in email.
Mickey Drexler: The Art of Selling with Retail's Merchant Prince
- ▶ 24:30 Shane Parrish I bought an Xbox for my kids. 3 times in the scene
How only 2,500 subscribers can make you $1,000,000.
- ▶ 1:52 Jonathan Courtney Um, yeah, it's, I, I, I think I never intended it to be said, spoken out loud because as I, it was my Xbox gamer tag, you know, it was one of those things where I was like trying different things 2 times in the scene
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30:31 David Rosenthal They were making GPUs, like, Nvidia's stock tracked whether they won the next Sony contract for the next PlayStation or the Xbox.
Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- ▶ 22:32 John Coogan But at the same time, it's like, how do people play Madden on Xbox when it comes out or call of duty?
AI Semiconductor Landscape feat. Dylan Patel | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 1:53 Dylan Patel Uh, so when I was eight, my Xbox broke, and I have, uh, immigrant parents. 2 times in the scene
Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 52:34 Satya Nadella This is everything from Xbox support to Azure support.
No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons
- ▶ 25:17 Eric Simons Cause they're like 200 bucks a pop instead of an Xbox, you know, and then we learn how to code together.
How to build great products—lessons from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & Deel. | Aaron Goldsmid, Head... · PMF Show
- ▶ 7:10 Aaron Goldsmid Like I was at Microsoft when we launched the first Xbox.
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 13:19 Eric Simons And so, um, instead of like an Xbox, we got, you know, programming books, but the hardest part for everyone learning to code is getting an environment set up locally, you know?
Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:51 Ben Gilbert The Internet, Windows XP, Xbox, the browser, search, and mobile.
- ▶ 1:54:26 David Rosenthal So these three-year agreements that you're talking about, Ben, and that covered Windows, that covered Office, that covered all the products that Microsoft offered except, like, Xbox.
- ▶ 2:07:56 David Rosenthal Certain Microsoft fans have probably been listening to this episode and gripping their phones with all their strength, like, when are you gonna talk about Xbox?
- ▶ 2:08:05 David Rosenthal We're gonna talk about Xbox briefly right now.
- ▶ 2:08:08 David Rosenthal We will do a whole nother episode on Xbox someday.
- ▶ 2:08:14 David Rosenthal My case is I love my Xbox, so.
- ▶ 2:08:18 Ben Gilbert Well, it's important to know Microsoft didn't start in gaming with the Xbox.
- ▶ 2:08:34 Ben Gilbert Amazing piece of technology, put Microsoft on the map, and you have the whole rise in PC gaming for the next six years, even before the Xbox.
- ▶ 2:09:19 David Rosenthal Huge story to tell another day, but you're right, that leads into Xbox and Microsoft's entry into the home console.
- ▶ 2:10:02 Ben Gilbert Ok, while we're in Xbox land, should we finish our Xboxiness right now for this episode?
- ▶ 2:10:08 Ben Gilbert Xbox has become an important part of our world.
- ▶ 2:10:16 Ben Gilbert David and I sort of heard people utter things in our research, like Xbox has kind of been a lifetime breakeven business, or it's never meaningfully contributed to Microsoft.
- ▶ 2:10:55 Ben Gilbert So this is five years after the Xbox has come out, loss making.
- ▶ 2:12:46 Ben Gilbert If I had to make the case of why Xbox has been somewhat of a folly,
- ▶ 2:12:53 Ben Gilbert It would be, there was a lot of Microsoft's best people worked on Xbox.
- ▶ 2:13:13 Ben Gilbert The aesthetics of Xbox from a physical perspective, but also the software.
- ▶ 2:13:27 Ben Gilbert The culture at Xbox was so hard driving to produce, at least in this point in history, up to the 2010 time frame, very little in the way of contributing to Microsoft's business, but soaking up a huge amount of the talent.
- ▶ 2:43:45 David Rosenthal We may or may not do an episode on Xbox someday, Ben, that's for Ben and I to discuss, you know, privately for parents to discuss after the kids go to bed, but we're definitely going to do an episode on Google.
- ▶ 3:04:04 Ben Gilbert They were all over an Xbox.
- ▶ 4:18:40 Ben Gilbert And they did make some good, you know, Xbox is good.
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 1:04:13 Jason Calacanis Three 65 plus OneDrive and Xbox plus game Xbox plus Game Pass. 2 times in the scene
My favorite money-making hack of 2024 is called nostalgia hacking
- ▶ 8:21 Jonathan Courtney You literally would like connect your Xboxes with a cable.
- ▶ 27:53 Jonathan Courtney Like, refurbishing controllers, uh, like, PlayStation One controllers, or Xbox controllers.
- ▶ 35:42 Jonathan Courtney So I would choose the original Xbox, just because I have somehow shit tons of nostalgia for that, even though I had the N-sixty-four, I had the Dreamcast, and I had the Xbox. 4 times in the scene
How to meet anyone you want
- ▶ 32:51 Jonathan Courtney It's, it's actually my Xbox gamer tag, which, you know, I wasn't ever thinking of becoming a business guy. 2 times in the scene
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