Microsoft, every mention
24 scenes (2023), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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every year 2023 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
Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian
- ▶ 18:58 RJ Scaringe Yeah, so they're with like a PowerPoint explaining who is Rivian.
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 18:06 Guy Raz Yeah, and I guess, like, around this time, too, I don't know if this is apocryphal or not, but I read that Bill Gates personally called you to try to convince you to leave your job at Carnegie Mellon and to go work for Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:50 Luis von Ahn And so I had good ties with Microsoft, and they really wanted to hire me for Microsoft Research.
- ▶ 20:19 Luis von Ahn So I use, I use PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:30 Guy Raz And presumably, Luis, I mean, given that you'd already turned down Microsoft like four years earlier,
Priority Bicycles: Dave Weiner
- ▶ 7:32 Dave Weiner And all of a sudden, I realized that Microsoft owned this software, and they were going to be putting tremendous resources behind it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:45 Dave Weiner And so I started to look for, uh, for, for a role in, in doing this new, uh, new software, uh, Mike, which was later called Microsoft Dynamics.
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
- ▶ 30:28 Scott Norton So we go to Wickenden Pub, and, and we end up writing for him, like, a couple of page Word document of, like, the annals of what we had done, and we sort of bulleted out, like, well, what would be next?
Leading through radical change with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite
- ▶ 38:24 Julia Hartz Yeah, I mean, I think it's, I think if you flip it, and you look at it from a blank slate opportunity perspective, rather than a recapturing of what was and what worked for us when we were wee little pups, I tend to find that, um, great…
Vuori: Joe Kudla
Orgain: Andrew Abraham
- ▶ 31:13 Andrew Abraham I don't have a fancy PowerPoint presentation prepared.
When AI is your personal tutor with Sal Khan of Khan Academy
- ▶ 19:42 Sal Khan Microsoft Azure money, which then uses that money to go buy expensive NVIDIA chips.
- ▶ 32:25 Sal Khan The more that I thought about it, and I'm, I'm writing a book about all of this right now, so I've been interviewing folks, and, you know, I interviewed Kevin Roos, who, who famously, you know, New York Times writer, uh, who had that…
Spikeball: Chris Ruder
- ▶ 2:02 Guy Raz In around 2000, Microsoft released a tablet computer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:04 Guy Raz And by the way, I think around this time, you get a new job working for, I think for Xbox, for Microsoft Xbox.
- ▶ 26:27 Guy Raz Alright, so you got, so you've got this new job at Microsoft Xbox, um, and, and also kind of, you know, the side project, and, and with a 100,000, roughly 100,000 dollars, where, where did you start?
- ▶ 34:56 Guy Raz I mean, you were working for Microsoft, so I have to assume you weren't super stressed out about that.
- ▶ 45:53 Guy Raz I guess you'd moved on from, from Microsoft at this point.
HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton
- ▶ 2:11 Alex Lofton But when you're around a bunch of babies of Microsoft.
HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
- ▶ 14:57 Lily Hevesh There's a couple of programs, um, one on Excel, and a couple that are coded by domino builders, uh, like from scratch, where essentially you can insert an image, and that will transform it into a pixelated version, um, of what you're…
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
Chomps: Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali
- ▶ 28:45 Rashid Ali I love living in Excel.
- ▶ 34:58 Pete Maldonado Um, I think I was using, like, Microsoft WordArt or something like that to, to create this logo.
Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly
- ▶ 12:54 Maureen Kelly I just, I wasn't a business person, and I'd never created, like, a business plan in my life, or had never done an Excel spreadsheet, but