Microsoft, every mention

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▶ 1:17:10 Doug Leone They didn't buy Microsoft, but Dave Marquardt was on a board of Microsoft. 4 times in the scene

▶ 3:09 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) When we launched Basecamp back in 2004, it was often contrasted with Microsoft Project and other kind of enterprise-y, heavy tools, and our pitch was always 2 times in the scene
▶ 7:05 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) This is actually the reason why when we got started, I was never worried about Microsoft. 7 times in the scene
▶ 7:11 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) When we got started, everyone was like, uh, Microsoft's just gonna make Basecamp a feature of project or teams or whatever.
▶ 8:08 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) I'm not quite sure, but I do know that I don't trust that if I was running Microsoft in 2004, that, uh, I wouldn't also have made the sprawling mess that is the office or the, the joke today is I think they have four version of Outlook.
▶ 8:08 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) I'm not quite sure, but I do know that I don't trust that if I was running Microsoft in 2004, that, uh, I wouldn't also have made the sprawling mess that is the office or the, the joke today is I think they have four version of Outlook. 4 times in the scene
▶ 39:39 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Windows certainly is not for me. 5 times in the scene
▶ 51:02 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Like we talked about Microsoft a bit.
▶ 1:00:49 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) It felt familiar. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:04:25 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) We had a tiny team, and Microsoft had all the money and all the whatever.

▶ 38:24 Jeff Zalaznick I had never even opened an Excel spreadsheet.
▶ 47:08 Jeff Zalaznick For all my VIP guests at the Mandarin Oriental, I had been building, I built my own, using my JP Morgan skills, I built my own Excel database, right, of restaurants. 2 times in the scene

▶ 39:09 Jonathan Ross We've, we've now gotten LLMs to be able to do code completion, even though, you know, we're part of Microsoft and everything, um, you know, we, we just can't get GPUs. 2 times in the scene

▶ 16:46 Scott Wu I'm gonna look for this and that or whatever, or I'm gonna go fill out these forms, or I'm gonna do this data analysis and put this Excel sheet together with this research that I found, right?
▶ 52:44 Scott Wu And if you do everything, you will lose to Microsoft or Google who does everything, but also has like trillions of dollars, more resources and a 100,000 more people than you.
▶ 55:54 Scott Wu The, the, the number one pushback that you would always hear from investors, from other people, people, it was like, but like Microsoft already has GitHub Copilot. 3 times in the scene

▶ 57:38 David Senra Yeah, and Microsoft was involved.
▶ 1:47:40 Marc Andreessen So when Microsoft was on top of the world and Craig McCaw basically built cellular telephony in the US, built what's now AT&T Mobile.

▶ 1:03:10 Brian Armstrong Email is a decentralized protocol, but you can use Gmail or Outlook or whatever.

▶ 4:59 David Senra And when I talk to these young founders, I'm like, just go study the early days of Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
▶ 1:06:31 Jason Fried I blame Microsoft for making shit email products that they just don't care about.

▶ 1:13:15 David Senra I want Oracle to be in the same vein as IBM or Microsoft. 3 times in the scene

▶ 2:00:10 David Senra And so, me and him were born in the eighties, because, like, what about Microsoft? 2 times in the scene

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