Microsoft, every mention
38 scenes (2021), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2021 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
Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
- ▶ 15:52 Alejandro Velez Was an Excel monkey, and I pulled out Excel, and I modeled it out as Nikhil's talking, and I said, this could be a big business, and like, that was our, off our first meeting.
Audible: Don Katz
Title Nine: Missy Park
- ▶ 12:25 Missy Park Finance, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, and I was the only one that actually ended up not getting one of those good jobs, so I had to figure out something else to do.
Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
- ▶ 44:08 Bruce Heavin A lot of people who taught web design and Photoshop were using our courses, and they were bringing it into their schools and into their companies, so we'd be installed in all of Apple, all of Adobe, all of Microsoft, all of Google, and the…
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018)
- ▶ 24:47 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…
- ▶ 40:13 Chris Zarou So we ended up getting back and I'd, I'd later put everything into, you know, an Excel spreadsheet and, and try and, you know, log everything. 2 times in the scene
Robert Reffkin: Compass
- ▶ 34:30 Robert Reffkin And we just started talking about it, and the idea was, what's, what's an industry that's really, really big, that the big companies, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, aren't competing within, and it really came down to real…
- ▶ 1:03:00 Robert Reffkin What Microsoft did, what Google did, they didn't invest it back in research and development to create a better company for their customer.
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 31:06 Ben Chestnut And we started, you know, to put the numbers in Excel, just to look at the numbers.
- ▶ 1:19:43 Ben Chestnut And, um, these days, these days, you know, MailChimp is much bigger, and I get invited to ritzy events with some really great business leaders, and I remember being in one recently where a head of one of Microsoft's cloud units was 3 times in the scene
Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton
- ▶ 2:10 Guy Raz And in the early 19 nineties, a young Microsoft employee named Rich Barton was obsessed with this kind of disruption.
- ▶ 5:09 Rich Barton My, really, one of my great friends from Stanford, she took a product manager job there at Microsoft and moved to Seattle right out of school, which was an interesting little company that recruited on Stanford's campus. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:55 Guy Raz I, I, so it's still pre-Windows. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:21 Guy Raz So you work on, on the DOS system, you worked as a product manager on the DOS system for, I guess, um, two or three years, and, uh, I guess around 90, 19, 94, you actually request a transfer to Microsoft's consumer division, which, can you… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:03 Rich Barton One was called Cinemania.
- ▶ 10:32 Rich Barton Um, Bill Gates, at the time, Microsoft was still relatively small and ran these, uh, what were called product reviews every year, and the product teams would come through his boardroom and say what they're working on, what they wanted to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:26 Rich Barton Kind of a Windows version of this and giving it to consumers could be a complete game changer for consumer empowerment. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Rich Barton Um, and Microsoft was scary. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:47 Guy Raz Microsoft spun out Expedia as a public company in, in 1999, and, uh, and you became the CEO, still pretty young, um, of a public company at the time.
- ▶ 21:31 Rich Barton And so in order to stay out of my wife's hair, I took an office with an ex Expedia, early Microsoft Stanford friend of mine, Lloyd Frank.
- ▶ 29:13 Rich Barton We both had resources from Expedia and Microsoft.
- ▶ 29:28 Guy Raz Alright, so from what I understand, you recruited a pretty high-level team that you'd worked with at Microsoft and then at Expedia, but a year, like almost a year into this Zillow venture, like, you really, you weren't really kind of going…
- ▶ 47:20 Rich Barton I've always liked to do lots of things, and we had just such a great, the kind of Microsoft slash Expedia diaspora was such a talented group of people that I loved, and one of those great people, Robert Homan, who had been a development…
Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald
- ▶ 47:57 Jennifer Fitzgerald We then had to get access to their, uh, rate filings for their products, and then, uh, I think, yeah, Francois in Microsoft Excel, in a spreadsheet, built the first, uh, like, comparative rater and pricing engine for pet insurance, working…
- ▶ 57:22 Jennifer Fitzgerald Into the system to get, to generate quotes, then we put those quotes into a custom PowerPoint presentation for the quote requester. 2 times in the scene
Live Episode! Wellness Coach and Podcaster: Jay Shetty
- ▶ 40:18 Jay Shetty I made a list of every single exec at every single media company in an Excel spreadsheet, and I emailed, tweeted, and mailed every exec every week when I released a new video.
Robinhood: Vlad Tenev
- ▶ 16:24 Vlad Tenev And I guess the observation that Bijou had made, which convinced us to get into business together, was that, you know, a lot of these firms are building their software on Microsoft Windows. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Lisa Baird of National Women's Soccer League
- ▶ 8:30 Lisa Baird What I later learned is that some people just loaded in one Excel spreadsheet and got their loan, but I was so worried that
How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew
- ▶ 3:08 Alex Lieberman It was a PDF that I would put together using Microsoft Word, and then I would export it into a PDF.
Canva: Melanie Perkins (2019)
- ▶ 3:19 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…
- ▶ 3:53 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.
- ▶ 6:48 Guy Raz Go on Microsoft Word or, or like? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:51 Melanie Perkins Yeah, Microsoft Word or Publisher.
- ▶ 12:28 Melanie Perkins And it had a picture of us beating Microsoft Office, and Adobe, and Google Docs, and a whole bunch of other companies.
- ▶ 24:06 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.
Simple Mills: Katlin Smith
- ▶ 35:39 Katlin Smith Uh, so I had put in all that I possibly could, and I had modeled out my little Excel model that we needed probably 200,000 dollars
Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
- ▶ 49:03 Jack Conte And so, yeah, we made an Excel spreadsheet with, with those folks, and I found their contact info, and, um, reached out to all 40 of them, and, uh, and, and all 40 of them said no.