Microsoft, every mention
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every year 2026 anyone Brett Berson 43Jon Noronha 30David Cramer 20Sam Schillace 15Steve Blank 12Christopher Payne 12Jay Parikh 11Dennis Pilarinos 9Jeremy Epling 7Amjad Masad 6
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
- ▶ 8:25 Brett Berson There's probably a few other variables, but like how do you think about driving and maybe a way to sort of frame it as if I'm working on your team 10 years ago at Facebook and I'm working on your team today at Microsoft, are the cultures…
- ▶ 19:55 Jay Parikh I mean, we have teams now in Core AI and, and, and Microsoft that, you know, that I support, that I work with, that,
- ▶ 24:50 Jay Parikh Even in, you know, the team at Microsoft, my team, Corey, I like one of the things we have, uh, just as a cultural thing right now is like, you know, there is this like FTE thing out there.
- ▶ 33:36 Jay Parikh Some of these people come from very, very different backgrounds, very different cultures, so onboarding of folks into a company like Facebook, or even in our team at Microsoft, was something that our teams meet put a lot of time into,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:13 Jay Parikh The other, I think, shifts we're trying to make in Core AI at Microsoft is this balance between more ICs leading things, and what I also saw and what we did at Facebook is when these things like mobile or other things came in that were… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:53 Jay Parikh I mean, just, it's a long list as I was reflecting as I was moving from that company, and then after a couple months ended up at, at, uh, at Microsoft, but where I feel the learning has really propelled is a lot deeper understanding of the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:35 Brett Berson And let's remove sort of this last chapter of Microsoft and you look back at the, the previous couple of decades.
How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
- ▶ 2:25 Jon Noronha The target was always PowerPoint. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:27 Jon Noronha A tool like PowerPoint is not a vertical solution.
- ▶ 17:32 Jon Noronha And so they actually caused all this pain for us of trying to figure out how to bridge this interactivity with this legacy format that was not interactive.
- ▶ 20:35 Jon Noronha Versus the sort of obvious realization that no, everybody is still exporting this thing to PowerPoint early on because that's where their team lives. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:51 Jon Noronha PowerPoint came out in 1987, and in the last 39 years, basically nobody else has managed to unseat them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:46 Jon Noronha So Excel is such a dominant tool for spreadsheets and I love Excel. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:07 Jon Noronha PowerPoint felt so ripe to attack because it doesn't have the same feeling. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:44 Jon Noronha If you think about who's buying the Google suite or the Microsoft Office suite, nobody's doing it by comparing the feature set of PowerPoint versus Google Slides.
- ▶ 30:53 Jon Noronha They're, instead, they're comparing Outlook versus Gmail, and maybe after that, like, Word versus Google Slides, and PowerPoint and Google Slides are afterthoughts in their product roadmap.
- ▶ 30:53 Jon Noronha They're, instead, they're comparing Outlook versus Gmail, and maybe after that, like, Word versus Google Slides, and PowerPoint and Google Slides are afterthoughts in their product roadmap.
- ▶ 58:08 Jon Noronha You should choose Gamma over PowerPoint because we are so much faster at getting you to the polished outcomes.
Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash)
- ▶ 1:11 Christopher Payne You know, a Microsoft or other companies like the finance problem is like, you know, I don't know, add up the money if you build the right product.
- ▶ 5:05 Christopher Payne So I worked at Microsoft.
- ▶ 16:11 Christopher Payne I was in Microsoft during the early nineties.
- ▶ 19:14 Christopher Payne So I was in Microsoft coming into Amazon, and Microsoft's a very challenging environment, very competitive environment, uh, and when, you know, Bill challenges you, you respond with force. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:22 Christopher Payne I ran web search for Microsoft, what became Bing, and it was a great experience on the one hand. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:22 Christopher Payne I ran web search for Microsoft, what became Bing, and it was a great experience on the one hand.
- ▶ 27:31 Brett Berson You sort of said this is a passing comment, but if you go back to sort of Microsoft in the nineties, it, you talked to a lot of people, it was very competitive internally battling out of ideas. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:19 Christopher Payne Uh, and so on the cool thing about that, I had experienced that type of growth at Microsoft, but not that acutely, not that like crazy.
- ▶ 56:43 Christopher Payne I would be like, you know, many people, when I was at Microsoft, like we would enter a space and they'd be like, oh my God, Microsoft, Microsoft's in the personal finance space. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:15 Christopher Payne I got some good feedback from, from a leader at Microsoft about that.
The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
- ▶ 0:08 Brett Berson So, normally when you look at someone with a background like yours, basically, 20 years in various roles at Microsoft, they then join, not a small startup, but a scale-up startup, certainly relative to Microsoft, a tiny, tiny company. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:41 Jeremy Epling I think that loop I had a little bit at Microsoft, but was not nearly as tight as it was at GitHub, where I felt like I was talking to our head of SE, like, almost every single day, and I was working on new products. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:22 Jeremy Epling The nice thing is I could still go and talk to people in Azure that I knew and worked with of, like, how did they go through that transformation, but then think about what does that mean for GitHub where, hey, we're selling a product every…
- ▶ 23:31 Jeremy Epling Uh, Microsoft had this term called, like, fetch a rock, where, like, someone's like, hey, can you go fetch a rock?
- ▶ 1:00:00 Jeremy Epling Like when I thought about my first years at Microsoft or even before I went there and like,
- ▶ 1:09:45 Jeremy Epling And I think I didn't really understand how I could do both of those, and I remember the first time I, like, signed, when I signed up for, like, the big mission that we had, you know, when I, when we came over, Microsoft bought GitHub, I…
Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)
- ▶ 48:50 Chris Degnan We're competing against Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, right?
- ▶ 55:11 Chris Degnan And I, I was like suspect of him cause he had managed like 10,000 people at Microsoft