Microsoft, every mention
11 scenes (2017), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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every year 2017 anyone Guy Raz 139Rich Barton 19Oliver Kharraz 7Ben Chestnut 7Tony Hsieh 6Melanie Perkins 6Luis von Ahn 6Chris Zarou 6Tristan Walker 4Sal Khan 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Patagonia: Yvon Chouinard (2016)
Framebridge: Susan Tynan
- ▶ 22:37 Susan Tynan I say we because there were some people on the PowerPoint, um, pitch check who now have joined.
Live Episode! BuzzFeed: Jonah Peretti
- ▶ 6:01 Jonah Peretti We do social protest letters using the Microsoft Word, Wizard, you know, we could do kind of any topic because technology was new, so from the reaction of the students, I could get a sense of what was getting their brains going and do, and…
Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones
- ▶ 32:45 Raegan Moya-Jones You know, you can get by with running your business on Excel spreadsheets at thirty million.
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
- ▶ 1:07 Guy Raz So if you have a PC at home or at work, and you buy some software like Word or TurboTax, it doesn't really matter if you have a Dell or an HP or a Toshiba, because if it's a PC, it will run PC software, and that makes perfect sense, right?
- ▶ 30:34 Guy Raz You think about Compaq, it was such a powerhouse in the eighties, a fortune 500 company, does a billion dollars in revenue within five years, and then you think about all of the companies that, that it was associated with, or that it… 2 times in the scene
AOL: Steve Case
- ▶ 18:44 Guy Raz All of a sudden, Microsoft says, we want to get into this business. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:05 Steve Case They're planning to bundle it with every copy of Windows, but they respected what we were doing, and if we had a 2 times in the scene
Kendra Scott: Kendra Scott
- ▶ 11:47 Kendra Scott So I had a very, um, basic line sheet and an order form that I printed off of Word, and went in
Zappos: Tony Hsieh
- ▶ 7:26 Tony Hsieh And then ultimately ended up selling the company to Microsoft in 1998 for two hundred sixty five million.
- ▶ 8:50 Tony Hsieh Well, in Silicon Valley, usually there's a four-year, what's known as a four-year vesting for your stock, and I'd only been there for two and a half years, so really had to stay for another year and a half after Microsoft acquired us in…