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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
How to Not F*ck Up Your Meetings
- ▶ 3:21 Alex Lieberman Plus as Steve Sinofsky, who's the former president of Windows at Microsoft shared in the course of building a company, the most important tool you have to create a culture of shared values is communication and meetings are critical to…
Pitching preseed investors
- ▶ 21:27 Alex Lieberman Before that, he was working on co-pilot at Microsoft, building AI tooling before ChatGPT ever existed.
- ▶ 21:27 Alex Lieberman Before that, he was working on co-pilot at Microsoft, building AI tooling before ChatGPT ever existed.
How to Identify Top 1% Talent (Keith Rabois, Investor in Doordash, YouTube, Airbnb & Lyft)
- ▶ 18:29 Keith Raboi Think Google, think Apple, think Amazon, think Microsoft, or even these days open AI.
How to Use Entrepreneurship to Propel Personal Growth (Jesse Pujji, Ampush & Gateway X)
- ▶ 13:41 Jesse Pujji And he's been doing that now longer than he's been doing Microsoft.
How to Reverse Engineer Great Business Ideas (Sam Parr, The Hustle & Hampton)
Why Software is Eating the World
- ▶ 13:08 Alex Lieberman Today's fastest growing telecom company is Skype, a software company that was just bought by Microsoft for 8.5 billion dollars.
- ▶ 18:30 Alex Lieberman Great incumbent software companies like Oracle and Microsoft are increasingly threatened with irrelevance by new software offerings like Salesforce.com and Android, especially in a world where Google owns a major handset maker.
Visionary vs. Fraud
- ▶ 8:53 Alex Lieberman Microsoft, perhaps the most successful tech company in history, got its break when Bill Gates sold IBM an operating system he didn't have. 2 times in the scene
Momentum is Everything
- ▶ 13:00 Alex Lieberman When we were launching Google Apps, we were coming out against Microsoft Office, which had this dominant monopolistic ownership of the business.
- ▶ 13:12 Alex Lieberman We offered one price of 50 dollars per employee per year compared to the wacky, twenty-page price list Microsoft would drop on you.
Why The Next Big Thing Looks Like a Toy? Ft. Apple Vision Pro
- ▶ 2:45 Alex Lieberman Number three was Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
1,000 True Fans
- ▶ 13:22 Alex Lieberman Even web search companies like Google, Bing, Baidu found it in their interest to reward searchers with the obscure because they could sell ads in the long tail as well.
25 Lessons in 25 Years
- ▶ 9:43 Alex Lieberman He got Hail Mary financing from Microsoft to keep the company alive.
A Founder’s Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
- ▶ 25:08 Sahil Lavingia Um, you've seen Satya Nadella like absolutely kill it at Microsoft.
How to Spend a Startup’s $ Wisely
- ▶ 15:23 Alex Lieberman Microsoft was bootstrapped in the 19 seventies and did not raise any venture capital until a round right prior to their IPO.
Measuring Product Market Fit
- ▶ 6:32 Rahul Vohra We basically have to rebuild the entirety of Gmail or the entirety of Outlook before we even start to make it better.
- ▶ 29:21 Rahul Vohra If you drive it quickly, if you drive Gmail or outlook quickly, well, first of all, you can't do that via the keyboard.
Lessons from Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 21:17 Jeff Bezos And this is so much better from having a slideshow presentation, you know, a PowerPoint presentation of some kind, where 6 times in the scene
Week In Review: Thoughts on OpenAI, Morning Rituals, and Momentum
- ▶ 1:24 Alex Lieberman But now that the, the saga at least seems complete for now, where Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, a lot of the leaders at OpenAI who had left the company originally to go to Microsoft, they're back at OpenAI now. 2 times in the scene
Avoiding an OpenAI Fiasco by Successfully Building Your Board
- ▶ 0:56 Alex Lieberman Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is mediating this discussion, but since it's all speculation and more will likely happen before this episode even comes out, I don't want to focus on what might have happened, and I do want to focus on a topic…
- ▶ 3:38 Alex Lieberman To cause the board to make this move, a move that Microsoft, OpenAI's biggest investor, found out about one minute before the press release and ended up losing fifty billion dollars in market cap from, um, as their stock continued to trade. 2 times in the scene
A Rewind for Your Money Matters: Season 4 Recap
- ▶ 27:02 John Gagliardi We're talking about Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla, JPMorgan Chase, ExxonMobil,
This Tragedy to Triumph Story is Why I’m an Entrepreneur
- ▶ 3:18 Alex Lieberman It's almost like a juiced up Excel, Microsoft Excel that has a lot of different integrations and automation.
The Difference Between Demand and Product Market Fit
- ▶ 20:47 Alex Lieberman You have everything from Saudi Aramco, which was founded in 1933 to Microsoft and Apple, which were founded in 1975 and 1976.
Why Successful Business Minds Have Paranoid Brains
- ▶ 22:53 Alex Lieberman Go to your Gmail, or your Yahoo, or your Outlook, or whatever you use for sending email, and type in the email address alexatmorningbrew.com.
Introducing Storyarb, My Content Agency + A Temperature Check
- ▶ 14:10 Alex Lieberman Go to your Gmail, or Yahoo, or Outlook account, type in the email address, foundersjournal, it's the name of the show, foundersjournal at morningbrew.com, and type three letters in.
How Founders Should Be Integrating AI To Their Business
- ▶ 5:12 Jesse Pujji I think it's, I think it's genuinely novel because, you know, Microsoft doesn't run around making ten billion dollar investments out of nowhere, and Google, if Google had something that could be in a similar vein to it, it would, it would… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:53 Jesse Pujji Like, he's like, Microsoft Teams. 2 times in the scene
How This Founder Wants to Reward You for Paying Rent
- ▶ 5:10 Ankur Jain So he sent his interview to all these companies and this little startup at the time in Seattle called Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
How to Not F*ck Up Your Meetings
- ▶ 1:51 Alex Lieberman Plus, as Steve Sinofsky, who's the former president of Windows at Microsoft shared, in the course of building a company, the most important tool you have to create a culture of shared values is communication, and meetings are critical to…
Exclusive: Selling My Company & Making Life-Changing Money
- ▶ 10:54 Jesse Pujji We had financial models and PowerPoint presentations, and we didn't know anything.
How an Entrepreneur Turns Self-Hate into Love
- ▶ 25:15 Jesse Pujji That's the, that's what's next for me, and that's what has sustained him actually longer than Microsoft sustained him.
Our 2023 Predictions, from AI to the Creator Economy
- ▶ 28:08 Jesse Pujji Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
Co-founders Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman on Building Morning Brew
- ▶ 0:00 Austin Rief We said, you know what, what if Alex pitches, and Austin walks around with, like, a printed out Excel document, basically, and basically stares people in the eyes until you, they give you your email, and that's what we did.
- ▶ 16:39 Alex Lieberman I had been writing this for a little while, and the original product was a Microsoft Word template
- ▶ 18:24 Austin Rief You know, a hundred hour weeks, and building Excel models, and eight to 10 years before you have any real responsibility.
- ▶ 22:08 Austin Rief And Alex and I would sit down, like, once a week or once a month, and we'd look at the Excel model and be like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:25 Austin Rief What if Alex pitches, and Austin walks around with, like, a printed out Excel document, basically, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:51 Austin Rief I can look at an Excel spreadsheet.
Building a Multimillion Dollar Business…By Yourself
- ▶ 3:26 Jesse Pujji I forgot the name of it, but it was like a plugin into Excel that made your PowerPoint size or into PowerPoint.
- ▶ 3:26 Jesse Pujji I forgot the name of it, but it was like a plugin into Excel that made your PowerPoint size or into PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
The Genius of Spotify Wrapped and How to Copy It, and How to Sell Your Business for 9 Figures
- ▶ 29:55 Alex Lieberman Microsoft would oftentimes launch, uh, businesses or buy businesses that it would integrate into its operating system.
What Generative AI Means for Startups and Are Executive Coaches Worth It?
- ▶ 9:10 Alex Lieberman Open AI was only allowing Microsoft to use their technology, and it was recently open to the public, so now that people can access the API of these
- ▶ 18:18 Jesse Pujji Eventually, AWS will offer it, Microsoft will offer it, OpenAI offers it, whatever.
- ▶ 29:11 Jesse Pujji Sent a coffin of, of Lotus software to Lotus after he crushed them with Excel, which is, you know, notoriously that crazy, like intense guy became the richest man in the world.
- ▶ 29:30 Jesse Pujji And, and Microsoft didn't sustain his motivation.
How to & How NOT to do Layoffs, the Tax Tip to save you MILLIONS and is the Gas App Going to Solve Bullying?
- ▶ 1:56 Alex Lieberman There, unfortunately, is a lot of news this week about layoffs at companies big and small, from Microsoft to Twitter, and Elon Musk wanted to layoff maybe 75% of the company, to Stripe, who is doing something that's known as a backdoor…
- ▶ 23:23 Alex Lieberman We had Microsoft announcing, uh, a thousand employees are going to be laid off.
How Liquid Death got a $700 Million Valuation, Making Your Pitch Deck Undeniable & The Hidden Truth of Being a Tech Entrepreneur
- ▶ 19:23 Jesse Pujji I'm a PowerPoint master.
- ▶ 37:19 Jesse Pujji One is Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:59 Jesse Pujji Why are we using AWS or Azure?
Great Startup Ideas, Bad Businesses
- ▶ 11:44 Alex Lieberman And two more of them, Apple and Microsoft, have two-sided marketplaces within their business, mainly in the way of their app stores, that you have developers on one side, you have consumers on the other side, and they are taking a…
Ethereum 101 & How It Could Top Bitcoin in Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 7:25 Alex Lieberman It's not like me having an Excel sheet on my computer, and if other people wanted to see the changes made or wanted to see the information in it, I would have to send it to them over email.
The Billion Dollar Builder
- ▶ 4:32 Alex Lieberman Called Microsoft. 4 times in the scene