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▶ 46:58 Zack Kanter And I remember when Slack came out, I knew a guy who was a, was an investor in Microsoft, which at the time, this guy didn't know anything about tech 2 times in the scene
▶ 47:09 Zack Kanter He's like, teams is going to kill Slack. 3 times in the scene

▶ 32:14 Jake Stauch So supporting Microsoft ends up being much, much harder than supporting the current stack of products because you have to rebuild every single thing that you're doing. 2 times in the scene

▶ 27:19 Kiren Sekar They weren't even big tech companies like the Microsofts of the world.

▶ 39:05 Sam Chaudhary And we sat in on a few of these and we're like, we could just give you like a really good PowerPoint presentation and we could probably put like a QR code at the end of it or a link that you could, you know, flash up on the screen and…
▶ 1:11:04 Sam Chaudhary oh my God, we're gonna get taken out by Microsoft basically.

▶ 2:46 Abhinav Asthana Like he was like, kind of, I think he mastered Microsoft Excel to such an extent that eventually you could just press a button and he would get all his work done.
▶ 13:33 Abhinav Asthana So if I go back to my childhood, I was, you know, I was in two camps, you know, I'm building on open source or I'm using all the stuff that Microsoft did.

▶ 2:44 Ankur Goyal I started studying CS, and then, again, trying to be like a good Indian kid, I interned at Microsoft, and I did research with a professor, and I hated both of them, so I had my second existential crisis, and decided to move to San…
▶ 4:13 Ankur Goyal Um, and there was one guy at MemSQL named Adam, uh, and he was a pretty senior database engineer from Microsoft, and
▶ 49:44 Ankur Goyal Braintrust now has like amazing support for Azure. 2 times in the scene

▶ 1:04:36 David Cramer I was talking to Microsoft a long time ago, strategic partnership, and they had this Azure, or this was the era where everything was Azure. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:04:36 David Cramer I was talking to Microsoft a long time ago, strategic partnership, and they had this Azure, or this was the era where everything was Azure. 4 times in the scene
▶ 1:26:07 David Cramer Um, it could also be like non-founders, but it's like less common, but at large companies that often, the Microsoft non-founder, right? 8 times in the scene
▶ 1:26:16 David Cramer They're the co-pilot thing feels a little bit messy these days, but the sort of move towards open source, like they rebranded Microsoft entirely and he's not a founder. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:26:34 David Cramer And I was like the old school, like hate on windows kind of guy, you know, and now I use windows almost exclusively for like even work. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:36:52 David Cramer And what I'm, I'm very interested to see what happens in the space with like VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, because Microsoft has a distribution. 2 times in the scene

▶ 54:40 Rick Song And that original thought emerged from, it was actually a joke, a bit self-deprecating of one, but I think when I was at Square at that time, I was joking with someone once that, uh, have we ever thought that all of our work at Square is… 3 times in the scene
▶ 55:00 Rick Song Like, you know, like, and like Microsoft Word is just a speck in Microsoft's universe, and it's like a speck of a speck, and I think at that time we were joking about, like,
▶ 1:06:47 Rick Song Saying I'm going to like redo Google docs or like beat Microsoft word at their own game.

▶ 3:26 Jeff Shiner I think they had a reader for Android and something similar for Windows, but it was really very much of an Apple focused company.
▶ 54:02 Jeff Shiner So, you know, for instance, when I came in in the first couple of years, it was very much of just, you know, the first year in particular was just trying to figure out what were the opportunities and getting us into things like…

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