Microsoft, every mention
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every year 2024 anyone Alex Lieberman 35Jesse Pujji 23Austin Rief 7Jeff Bezos 6Ankur Jain 4Rahul Vohra 2Sam Parr 1Sahil Lavingia 1Keith Raboi 1John Gagliardi 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
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.