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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 20:17 Chris Dixon There's the cathedral is Microsoft is this tower and priests and secretive.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 14:14 Chris Dixon And like Excel and Word are still very popular products after 40 years.
- ▶ 14:14 Chris Dixon And like Excel and Word are still very popular products after 40 years.
- ▶ 22:04 Chris Dixon So I think the most popular was Encarta, which was created by Microsoft.
- ▶ 22:04 Chris Dixon So I think the most popular was Encarta, which was created by Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:17 Chris Dixon There is also sometimes an advantage to starting later in the same way that you had Apple and the other tinkerers, but then you had Compaq and Dell and Microsoft and all these other people take the baton and run with it.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 27:14 Chris Dixon I mean, people say windows, Microsoft missed mobile phones. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:14 Chris Dixon I mean, people say windows, Microsoft missed mobile phones.
- ▶ 31:09 Chris Dixon The information superhighway was Microsoft, Disney, Comcast, which was to have these big centralized systems and you would go buy a box and they would have these video on demand stuff and a bunch of like, it'd be like this little play pen,…
- ▶ 45:45 Chris Dixon Microsoft building the word processor and all these other, you know, that was really what drove a lot of the early PC stuff.