Microsoft, every mention
21 scenes (2022), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Alienware: Frank Azor and Nelson Gonzalez
- ▶ 17:36 Nelson Gonzalez It's, it's Windows based.
- ▶ 47:28 Frank Azor And then at the same time, you had Microsoft taking notice of all of this and saying, they're gonna get into the gaming space with the Xbox. 3 times in the scene
Roku: Anthony Wood
- ▶ 46:14 Anthony Wood PCs have windows and I felt like TVs needed Roku.
Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
Bluemercury: Marla and Barry Beck
- ▶ 17:20 Marla Beck I think at a certain point, we knew we had hidden the idea, and we developed like a ten-page PowerPoint, and we were gonna go try to raise money.
ButcherBox: Mike Salguero
HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
Roblox: David Baszucki
HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler
- ▶ 5:12 Polina Veksler And so the first chance that I got, um, I was able to move to Seattle and work in strategy at Microsoft.
Twitch: Emmett Shear
- ▶ 9:37 Emmett Shear Like there should be a, like Outlook has a calendar. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- ▶ 33:32 Donnel Baird And so, the majority of the capital that we've raised is actually from Goldman and Microsoft, and we have to repay them.
HIBT Lab! Climeworks: Jan Wurzbacher
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- ▶ 37:33 Max Levchin Yeah, I, I was very awkward, and this totally did not work in venture capital, where I would show up, like, with a disheveled hair and a t-shirt that said, Microsoft sucks, or something like that, and people were like, all right, this is…
- ▶ 1:03:42 Max Levchin Definitely some interesting, very loud debates between engineering teams on religious matters between Windows and Unix.
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
- ▶ 30:19 Michael Horvath Why won't that just be handled by Microsoft outlook or, you know, the other email software companies out there that just, they didn't understand the translation between personal email and customer service via email.
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
- ▶ 16:19 Lloyd Armbrust I did the worst PowerPoint presentation of my life.
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 8:12 Matt Mullenweg There was early website publishing software, web services like GeoCities, software like Dreamweaver or FrontPage that would allow you to make, uh, honestly kind of cool for the time websites.
Discord: Jason Citron
- ▶ 4:54 Guy Raz In the case of Discord, it now has more than a hundred and fifty million monthly users, and in twenty-twenty-one, it was widely reported that Microsoft offered Jason ten billion dollars for Discord.
- ▶ 36:34 Jason Citron So I'm talking, you know, Nintendo, Sony with their PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, you know, Valve has their Steam store.
- ▶ 1:17:54 Guy Raz You, um, uh, this has been widely reported, so I'm not, I'm not saying anything that you don't know or haven't heard a million times, that in March of, of twenty-twenty-one, um, uh, Microsoft, uh, you were in talks with Microsoft,… 4 times in the scene
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur (2020)
- ▶ 11:16 Sarah LaFleur Uh, I didn't know how to do PowerPoint.