Microsoft, every mention

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▶ 27:39 Ben Conniff So pull up that strip and see how many lobster rolls it says we sold at the end of the night, and then we'd back into what we had, and, and it was, you know, I had never used Excel in my life at that point, so 3 times in the scene

▶ 0:05 Tristan Walker I remember the very first pitch deck, which was a PowerPoint of graduated to keynote, but like we had a PowerPoint of like clip art because I didn't have 2 times in the scene
▶ 28:59 Tristan Walker Actually, I remember the very first pitch deck, which was a PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene

▶ 32:28 Raegan Moya-Jones You know, obviously the way you run a hundred million dollar company to the way you run a, you know, a 20 or even a 30, forty million dollar company, you know, you can get by with running your business on Excel spreadsheets at thirty…

▶ 42:23 Mike Sorrentino Right, and our logo is something I made up in Microsoft Paint.

▶ 9:56 Tony Hsieh And then ultimately ended up selling the company to Microsoft in 1998 for two hundred sixty five million. 2 times in the scene

▶ 10:06 Guy Raz It reminds me of trying to sync my Google calendar with my Outlook calendar.

▶ 22:53 Susan Tynan I say we because there were some people on the PowerPoint, um, pitch check who now have joined.

▶ 1:30 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.
▶ 30:56 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

▶ 23:43 Chris Zarou Yeah, it was, uh, I remember I made, and at the time, having to come up with a company name, it was more just to kind of, you know, I formed an LLC when I started to make money because I had to be paid, and, um, I had a little, I remember,…
▶ 39:05 Chris Zarou You know, an Excel spreadsheet and try and, you know, log everything. 2 times in the scene

▶ 5:40 Anthony Casalena Like, that was, like, at the time, Dreamweaver and FrontPage and all that. 2 times in the scene
▶ 7:50 Anthony Casalena Front page Microsoft, Dreamweaver, Macromedia, and later Adobe.

▶ 2:52 Guy Raz And when Melanie went to university to study communications, this was in the mid-two thousands, she started using graphic design and publishing software, programs like Adobe InDesign or Microsoft Publisher, and she was frustrated that the…
▶ 3:27 Melanie Perkins And so I had this very oversized vision for taking on all of these different industries from, you know, Microsoft Office and lots and lots of other industries as well.
▶ 6:23 Guy Raz Go on Microsoft Word or, or like? 2 times in the scene
▶ 6:26 Melanie Perkins Yeah, Microsoft Word or Publisher.
▶ 12:02 Melanie Perkins And it had a picture of us beating Microsoft Office, and Adobe, and Google Docs, and a whole bunch of other companies.
▶ 23:42 Guy Raz but, you know, like, look, Microsoft or Google, the minute they see what you guys do, they'll crush you because they'll just put something else out way bigger, and, and, I mean, you're just going to get crushed right away.

▶ 48:01 Julie Rice Now you know how to look at all those Excel spreadsheets, and P&L, and all that stuff, and you can make yourself crazy, but I think at the time, you know, what we didn't know helped us, and we just trusted our gut, and we went.

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