Microsoft Office, every mention
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every year anyone Rob Hale 1Josh Wolfe 1Ben Gilbert 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft Office comes up
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 39:51 Josh Wolfe Google, 20 years ago, looked at Microsoft's main cash cow of Office, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook, and they gave it all away for free, because they could, because they have this advertising model in search.
Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 8:16 Ben Gilbert Well, I did computer science undergrad, ended up going to Microsoft, working there as a program manager on Office for iPad, which was super fun to work on that at the time.