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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
- ▶ 19:18 Tristan Handy You can see that in Excel or Tableau or other products that like existed before that.
How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
- ▶ 1:51 Brett Berson Microsoft, YouTube, and Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 Brett Berson And in the sense of Figma and Uber, Microsoft, Google, all, I assume, build products differently are all known for great products in sort of different contexts. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:35 Yuhki Yamashita Like for example, at Microsoft, I started and it was very much about the super detailed spec, um, where if you were the PM, you could be the PM just on control Z or, you know, undo feature of Excel or something.
- ▶ 40:13 Brett Berson Why has it not made sense for Figma to make meaningful acquisitions in terms of getting into the next product where you really buy something that's working and start to cross sell it away a la Microsoft, Salesforce, so many other companies.
How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
- ▶ 16:37 Bob Moore You get a landing page for every company that details their partnership, but also every combination of two companies that might have a partner, or if they do or don't, you can show how their ecosystems kind of like overlapped or intersect…
- ▶ 56:28 Bob Moore This is this really, really fraught process that was basically completely run, uh, even in multi-billion dollar market cap businesses by spreadsheets and email spreadsheets and, and, you know, writing V lookup functions in Excel.
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- ▶ 0:00 Sam Schillace I've got a team right now at Microsoft that's this sort of experimental prototyping team.
- ▶ 0:59 Brett Berson For today's episode of In-Depth, I'm thrilled to be joined by Sam Scilace, who's the deputy CTO and corporate vice president at Microsoft.
- ▶ 12:33 Sam Schillace I've got a team right now at Microsoft that's
- ▶ 17:42 Sam Schillace We had to build the PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:52 Sam Schillace We will not fight the war of features that everybody had been fighting and failing against Microsoft.
- ▶ 19:32 Sam Schillace To be honest, like, I'm a little bit sad at the state of Gdocs these days because I think they're losing sight of the idea that, you know, they're kind of turning it into Office and like making it very complicated to use again.
- ▶ 21:12 Brett Berson It's very hard to take word and instantly compete with Google Docs if you want to compete on that specific dimension.
- ▶ 21:17 Sam Schillace It's weird being at Microsoft and talking about this now because I've talked about this before I was there, so none of this is like inside or anything, but you can kind of see this from the outside. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:59 Sam Schillace Could kind of get their head together on what their response was going to be, you know, the office three 65 response that they eventually came up with.
- ▶ 22:52 Brett Berson In the case of Google Docs versus Office, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:54 Brett Berson It also feels, you know, and I haven't studied this closely, that Google Docs was, was actually far less disruptive than one would imagine, meaning that Microsoft, that both suites ended up winning and doing very well. 6 times in the scene
How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling, Apple)
- ▶ 49:06 Matt MacInnis Yeah, there's Microsoft
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
- ▶ 2:23 Brett Berson Like if you think about Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft, you go back and they're all 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:42 Adam Nash But if you look at how spreadsheets built out, obviously, Excel, for a lot of reasons, ended up dominating. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:13 Adam Nash I mean, I don't know what it'd be like if, if Bill was running Microsoft today, but I think it's amazing what Microsoft is doing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:12 Adam Nash Microsoft has a family plan.
Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- ▶ 2:18 Brett Berson One of the interesting things is that going all the way back to the start of AWS, Azure, et cetera,
- ▶ 8:25 Dennis Pilarinos Microsoft, relatively straightforward. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:35 Dennis Pilarinos When I was at Microsoft, I remember people had gone and started companies, and I'd be like,
- ▶ 38:01 Dennis Pilarinos And they're geographically distributed, and they only use Microsoft Teams. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:27 Dennis Pilarinos I worked at a big company at Microsoft and Amazon.
- ▶ 43:56 Dennis Pilarinos It'd be interesting if you went back and talked to the employees who were early at Microsoft and early at Amazon, how much historical retrofitting has been done to go and do, and I, I see a couple, there's actually a couple interesting… 2 times in the scene
Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 34:16 Amjad Masad I described the current era we're living in, in terms of AI add-ons, where you get Windows and you get Copilot for 10 bucks.
- ▶ 34:16 Amjad Masad I described the current era we're living in, in terms of AI add-ons, where you get Windows and you get Copilot for 10 bucks. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:34 Amjad Masad You would, you know, pay Microsoft 50 bucks to get the Windows add-on. 2 times in the scene
The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
- ▶ 3:19 Michael Lopp And then he expanded that over in Scotts Valley here in Northern California to be really a Microsoft competitor at the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:43 Michael Lopp When it's the CEO, going back to Philippe at the beginning, he, this Borland did office before there was office, man.
- ▶ 25:52 Michael Lopp They got the ask, they got, they're gotten problems with Microsoft, but that's these, what these product people do is they really, these are visionaries and they see these things and they can, and we're talking about CEOs, but I think…
Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
- ▶ 19:21 Kyle Parrish I couldn't come in and read the notes on working with Microsoft and what that relationship looked like.
- ▶ 29:36 Brett Berson Did you spend as much time thinking about and caring about Microsoft being a potential early customer as it was kind of a 250 person venture backed tech startup? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:04 Kyle Parrish anyone that's using Figma, whether you're an individual, uh, you know, designer and building a consultancy shop, you work at SMB, you work in an agency, or you work at Microsoft, Google, or any of these large companies, you're using it in…