Microsoft, every mention
20 scenes (2024), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2024 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
BARK: Matt Meeker
- ▶ 7:53 Matt Meeker And it meant we spent a lot of days in conference rooms talking about PowerPoints, and when we got stuck on things, we hired consulting firms to help solve those.
21 Seeds: Kat Hantas
- ▶ 23:22 Kat Hantas Spreadsheets, Excel.
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 10:45 Guy Raz But, uh, but this was, from what I understand, it was like the Australian arm of, uh, of Microsoft, of, of Microsoft's MSN network, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:53 Rod Cuthbert Two software developers who were at Microsoft in Seattle.
Advice Line: Growing Beyond Your Niche
- ▶ 4:49 Oney Colston I didn't have a lot of money for us to go out on this fancy dinner, so I just started creating cards on Microsoft Word. 2 times in the scene
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
- ▶ 5:00 Andrew Mason Like, I had made some using Microsoft front page at home, and thought this might be a way that I could do something that I, that I really love to do and get paid a bunch of money for it.
- ▶ 7:01 Andrew Mason Yeah, so I put out an ad to be a computer consultant for people, like an Apple specialist that was helping people, like, set up their printer and get their camera working, and I started out as a consultant who was writing reports for…
- ▶ 1:02:49 Guy Raz But this would be like a Word document, right? 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- ▶ 29:31 Jamie Siminoff I could, like, on an Excel sheet, show exactly what it was going to be.
Thrive Market: Nick Green
- ▶ 6:25 Nick Green It's a Word document that I printed out of my house for the students.
On athletic shoes: Olivier Bernhard and Caspar Coppetti
- ▶ 45:07 Olivier Bernhard So why, instead of trying to convince them what our tech does, and you know, with a PowerPoint presentation, why don't we just bring shoes, we go run in their environment.
AI is smarter than you think with Shane Legg of Google DeepMind
- ▶ 9:34 Guy Raz We're going to come back to that, um, and later in this conversation, but I want to talk about what you would go on to do, because while you were in graduate school, you met, um, Demis Hassab is still at Google today, and, and Mustafa…
- ▶ 20:33 Guy Raz I mean, Sam Altman signed this letter, Jeffrey Hinton, the sort of the godfather of AI, the heads of AI at Microsoft and, and Anthropic and everyone signed it.
The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2
- ▶ 23:51 Tristan Harris Now it's not smart enough to have accurate, really deeply accurate instructions about how to do that, but we probably don't want to be releasing Lama three, Lama four and Microsoft and, you know, Mark Zuckerberg has publicly stated within…
Sonos: John MacFarlane
- ▶ 6:46 John MacFarlane But, uh, while it made a lot of sense, the folks that kind of were the gatekeepers at the big software companies at that time, Microsoft, Borland, Lotus, uh,
- ▶ 8:27 Guy Raz And this is before Microsoft Outlook or Gmail or any of that stuff.
Building a decarbonization army with Shashank Samala of Heirloom
- ▶ 14:40 Shashank Samala So today we have customers like Microsoft and Stripe meta who are buying removals from us to help them reach net zero. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:05 Shashank Samala Um, this year we, we signed a contract with Microsoft.
Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson
- ▶ 32:12 Tiffany Masterson Yeah, I mean, I opened up an Excel spreadsheet.