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Building High-Growth Tech Ventures in the AI Era with Kory Jeffrey of Inovia Capital
- ▶ 31:26 Corey Jeffrey And so the big fight between all the, the platform companies, you know, Microsoft and Facebook and all this was like, what is the tool set that that next generation of builders in those countries are going to use, right?
Building the Intelligence Engine for Finance and National Security with Shaun Modi of Capitol AI
- ▶ 1:22 Shaun Modi So those automations can be things like PowerPoint due diligence documents, Excel workbooks, interactive web applications.
- ▶ 1:22 Shaun Modi So those automations can be things like PowerPoint due diligence documents, Excel workbooks, interactive web applications.
- ▶ 14:47 Shaun Modi And what users, these analysts sitting at Northcom Norad were, uh, they were tasked with seven days a week producing these PowerPoint decks and reports, uh, for policymakers and leadership on what's going on.
- ▶ 35:07 Shaun Modi Fact faction of your team is using co-pilot faction of your team is using cloud code and other factions using Gemini chat GPT.
Reinventing Insurance Through AI with Shaju Puthussery & Deepak Ramaswamy of Lightspun
- ▶ 8:10 Shaju Puthussery Think of a Windows or an Apple operating system.
- ▶ 25:59 Kristian Marquez I think of, um, I think of AI now as a tool the same as Excel.
Securing the AI Frontier with Anar Bayramov of Polygraf | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 8:34 Anar Bayramov Things like plot code, or they're using Microsoft Copilot to increase their productivity to do faster code reviews.
- ▶ 22:40 Anar Bayramov So what we did is we, it's a product that, uh, also runs in the background, uh, and whenever you type something, um, in, in any window, whether that's a browser or black teams where, uh, you probably use Grammarly. 2 times in the scene
Investing in Human Capital for a Sustainable Planet with Cyrus Wadia of Activate | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 15:54 Cyrus Wadia One example of that is at New York climate week, just last year, we ran, um, uh, a session with Microsoft because as they, uh,
Mastering Growth Equity with Melanie Nabar of Volition Capital | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 25:25 Melanie Nabar I learned skills that will be redundant, like Excel and PowerPoint.
- ▶ 25:25 Melanie Nabar I learned skills that will be redundant, like Excel and PowerPoint.
Building Scalable Venture Strategies with James Paul Costa of Grapetree Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 37:41 James Paul Costa And what I realized, and I want to know from you, Christian, if you felt the same way, because you deal with a lot of guys that are about Excel sheets.
Scaling Revenue Intelligence with Jason Ambrose of People.ai | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 9:53 Jason Ambrose That's, that's open AI, that's anthropic, you know, Microsoft maybe has a play in that, uh, Google, right?
S2E8: Indian Mythology x Gaming: The Age of Bhaarat ft. Amish Tripathi & Mukul Deora
- ▶ 22:45 Amish Tripathi But where the market will be cannot be based on market research and PowerPoint presentation.
- ▶ 56:54 Amish Tripathi One version of Word or Microsoft Point was being launched.
- ▶ 56:54 Amish Tripathi One version of Word or Microsoft Point was being launched.
- ▶ 1:01:21 Mukul Deora For example, as you know, uh, Microsoft launched, there's something new called cloud gaming. 3 times in the scene
Eliminating Missed Revenue with David Yang of Newo.ai | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 29:14 David Yang If we put aside for a moment that this giant clusters of thousands of servers of AWC or Azure are not deterministic just because they fall, they fail from time to time that you should, someone should re reset them.
Redefining the AI Application Layer with Sandhya Venkatachalam of Axiom Partners | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 26:50 Sandhya (Sonia) Venkatachalam Uh, we ended up selling the company to Microsoft a few years later, uh, for eight and a half billion dollars.
How Eugene Johnson, CEO of Revi is Disrupting Retail Transactions with AI and Customer Data
- ▶ 17:06 Eugene Johnson Imagine when Microsoft or, you know, Facebook or whoever decides to do that.
Ep2: From GCC to Global Growth Hub: The 7-Eleven Playbook
- ▶ 37:57 Malhar Pinnelli Um, I got into tools group, uh, where I was building Excel macros to utilities, which I was not happy with.
- ▶ 55:25 Subramanya Rao So this entire journey, there's a lot of different teams coming into play, different applications like Teams, Zoom, in the initial conversation, then email, back and forth of negotiation, contracts, where important negotiations are done.
The New Economics of Startups in the AI Era with Peter Walker of Carta
- ▶ 41:22 Kristian Marquez You know, imagine before the advent of Excel, you basically had a lot of back office businesses that were mimicking what Excel is today, and when Excel came out, it made them more productive, but if they had a good business on their hand, 2 times in the scene
S2EP6: Modern Day Spirituality for High-Output Leaders ft. Dr. Shubha Vilas
- ▶ 9:18 Kristian Marquez You've taken more than 5000 sessions across 20 countries and large organizations like Microsoft's, Google's, Apple's, and Samsung's of the world.
Karnataka's Billion Dollar Playbook ft. Sanjeev Gupta
- ▶ 2:47 Abhay Tandon A very, very seasoned leader who is an ISS bash topper, who has done so much of work for the government projects and beyond that has exemplified leadership in his private stints across companies like Accenture, Microsoft and others too.
- ▶ 48:12 Abhay Tandon You were in Microsoft, which was, you know, the platform side of things and building that out and scale that up.
Inside Visa Ventures: Strategic Corporate Investing, Global FinTech Insights, and Founder Success with David Rolf
- ▶ 23:28 David Rolf and, you know, numbers in an Excel spreadsheet.
EP1: The GCC Revolution of India ft. Lalit Ahuja
- ▶ 33:43 Abhay Tandon When Target, SAP, and Microsoft set up their innovation arms in India, accelerators, as we would call them back in the day, ah, there was no concept of paid POCs.
- ▶ 57:17 Lalit Ahuja Meta is hiring, and so is Google, and so is Microsoft, and they'll do anything and pay everything, anything to get people.
Empowering Work with AI: Inside Dash Labs' Vision of Workstation
- ▶ 3:41 Andrew Hoag Obviously an enterprise, um, co-pilot is a very big one and everybody's familiar with co-pilot. 2 times in the scene
Building Trustworthy AI: Navigating the Challenges and Future of Agentic Software with Shane Emmons
- ▶ 24:26 Shane Emmons I think about, uh, accountants who before Excel had giant pieces of paper and probably closed books for weeks, if not months. 2 times in the scene
Transforming Due Diligence with AI: Wokelo’s Automation of Private Market Research and Risk Analysis
- ▶ 1:29 Sid Masson All the way to creating end deliverables in well-formatted PowerPoint decks.
Evolutionizing Mortgage with AI: How Tidalwave Transforms Mortgage Lending
Matt Schappell on Healthcare Innovation: Investing in Tech-Driven Value-Based Care
- ▶ 21:29 Matt Schappell Let's give Matt Outlook.
Howard Morgan on AI, Global Venture Investing & Founder Insights | NVCA Award Recipient Series
- ▶ 17:14 Howard Morgan Um, and I guess I, and we, I, we had done for my, uh, Office of Naval Research projects and DARPA, uh, windowing systems long before Microsoft Windows.
- ▶ 19:18 Howard Morgan But what really changed it, and that's kind of when Google started, we at Idealab had GoTo, which was, um, you know, the first big search engine became called Overture, ended up in Microsoft's hands.
EP14: Reimagining Innovation in the world of everyday Finance ft. Vijay Rajagopal
- ▶ 1:04:30 Vijay Rajagopal Um, I mean, if you were to take names, uh, let's say right from Kunal Shah to, uh, Mukesh Bansal, uh, to a lot of, uh, CEOs whom I have a deep respect for, the Tata Group Chairman Chandrasekharan, uh, you know, to, uh, you know, some of…
Solving Liquidity Challenges & Enhancing Transparency in Private Markets
- ▶ 4:01 Charles Anselm So I think one of the key, um, variables, you know, in a private market also is that if you buy a stock or a bond like Apple or a Microsoft, like you mentioned, right?
- ▶ 10:48 Charles Anselm They use the reporting platforms, put all the data into an Excel spreadsheet, and then they start thinking about investment decisions, right?
- ▶ 34:49 Kristian Marquez But at the same time, you know, you have to get the word out, um, because, um, I imagine you compete with Excel a lot, um, and. 2 times in the scene
Diamonds in the Rough: Investing Where Grit Meets Innovation
Navigating Startup Success: Insights on Venture Capital, Market Disruption, and Mentorship
- ▶ 10:14 Sriram Sundararajan Like, you know, you have AWS, you have Microsoft, you have, you know, Meta, everybody's investing in that infrastructure space.
- ▶ 10:27 Sriram Sundararajan Um, as consumers, we are in our lives today using a certain level of automation, and you can think of this evolution as being very similar to when the PCs actually had Microsoft DOS and Windows evolve over time that helped enhance…
Revolutionizing Application Security: Transforming Risk Management and Facilitating Startup Success
- ▶ 25:17 Greg Martin But if you ask yourself honestly, you're probably able to, to, to understand your business and the market dynamics to say, you know what, this is probably a strategic asset that, uh, maybe another tech company, uh, like a Microsoft or…
Unlocking Multifamily Real Estate Success: Direct Investment Strategies and Insights with Veritas Equity Partners
- ▶ 35:41 Alex Birch We've got Microsoft.
Finding the Needle in the Data Haystack: How AI is Revolutionizing Enterprise Decision-Making
- ▶ 1:32 Vikram Srinivasan Uh, there is a whole bunch of information scattered within the enterprise in your SharePoint, in your drives, uh, in your team's messages, and so on and so forth.
- ▶ 7:01 Vikram Srinivasan There could be PowerPoint documents in here.
- ▶ 12:31 Vikram Srinivasan Like I said, PowerPoint documents where there are charts, there are tables, uh, complex documents from very disparate sources is a very hard problem, uh, for two reasons, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:17 Vikram Srinivasan So where we have, you know, some of the hyperscalers like a Microsoft or an Azure who are partnering with us.
- ▶ 17:17 Vikram Srinivasan So where we have, you know, some of the hyperscalers like a Microsoft or an Azure who are partnering with us.
Bridging Investment and Operations: AJ Dye on Scaling Tech with Vertex Innovations and Unifi Ventures
- ▶ 6:57 AJ Dye I do think that that skill set, um, I continue to use it, you know, and I continue to run financial models and excel and do some of the basics that, that that kind of stuff taught me, but then it's also just a ton of deal reps, which is…
- ▶ 28:38 AJ Dye Um, back to the PowerPoint though, there, there is certainly a major question of like, okay, have those areas kind of cat is the grid maxed out in those areas.
Revolutionizing Home Remodeling: How VeraAI is Streamlining the Design and Sales Process
- ▶ 21:00 Andrea Dattilo Putting those numbers together and then crunching them with our CTO into a consumption calculator, whether it be Google, AWS, or Microsoft.
Building Long-Term Success through Operator-Led Investing in AI-Enabled SaaS
Unlocking Legacy Systems: Modernizing Mainframes via AI with Mechanical Orchard
- ▶ 29:53 Edward Hieatt Um, you know, as a startup, the best thing you can do, and I was told this by, uh, Paul Moritz, I don't know if you know Paul Moritz's name, but he's, um, he was, um, I think number three at Microsoft in the nineties, famously was the guy…
Disrupting Higher Education and Embracing AI at Lumen Learning
- ▶ 35:53 Kim Thanos Saying using chat GPT is going to become as common as somebody using Microsoft Word to write an essay.
Empowering Vehicle Owners: Automotive Data Ownership & Monetization with MyAutoData
- ▶ 26:03 Manfred Heiss Um, and, uh, and again, so that Microsoft was very interested in it as a, we had a contract with SAP, which I canceled, uh, because, uh, I figured out that they wanted to sell our users data, which is, I said, no, there's no way.
How BrightHive is Unlocking the Power of AI to Transform Data-Driven Work
- ▶ 8:14 Suzanne El-Moursi These Excel spreadsheets have hundreds of thousands of rows.
- ▶ 18:01 Suzanne El-Moursi By the time you get all your data in one warehouse, for example, on a Snowflake or Azure, that's an 18 month deployment.
Harnessing High-Performance Computing: Todd Smith’s Vision for OpnBook’s TAHO Infrastructure
- ▶ 7:44 Todd Smith It's no secret that, uh, Google meta, uh, Microsoft, uh,
EP7 Nationalistic Interests, Humanitarian Efforts & Future of AI ft Vinayak Hegde
- ▶ 5:36 Vinayak Hegde Um, and, uh, before that also book for brief stint in Microsoft, uh, working on open source tools, uh, called, uh, services for Unix, which was very, very interesting because I was doing open source work in Microsoft during the Baltimore… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:17 Abhay Tandon So talking about giving back to the ecosystem, giving back to the society, not just these two, uh, in your role in Microsoft as the CTO in residence, you know, for Microsoft for startups, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:11 Vinayak Hegde Microsoft also has been at the forefront talking about responsible AI and ethical AI.
- ▶ 33:40 Abhay Tandon What I mean by that is there's, there are days that I see they're leading organizations, including that of Microsoft, uh, you know, where, uh, some of these organizations are trying to get ahead of each other because they have to remain…
- ▶ 50:21 Vinayak Hegde Again, there is a pre and post deep seek is, is that with lesser amount of money, but good amount of talent and understanding, it is actually becoming easier to build a model, and sometimes in, in, in some cases, you can use like an open…
40 - Empowering Investors: Navigating Value Investing with Tykr's Sean Tepper
- ▶ 2:38 Sean Tepper So I decided to put things into Excel, used it for about four years, making returns between 15 and 50% consistently per year. 2 times in the scene
39 - Deep Tech and National Security: Insights from J2 Ventures' Yeri Lopez
- ▶ 15:35 Yeri Lopez Um, I love to give the example of Microsoft and Microsoft being a New Mexico product.
37 - Cultivating Innovation: BoodleBox's France Hoang on AI, Culture, and Customer-Centric Strategies
- ▶ 3:36 France Hoang That starts not on a PowerPoint slide that you show employees when they join your team.
36 - From Startup to IPO Success with Founder and Family Office Head Rick Lasch
30 - Automating Airborne Intelligence with Overwatch Imaging's Greg Davis
- ▶ 16:57 Greg Davis Yes, I would love to kind of just work on the future, but being out there and relevant today is how we learn what really works versus what sounds like it's going to work in PowerPoint, but doesn't actually meet the need.
19 - From Exit to Empowerment: A LegalTech Operator’s Journey with Ishan Girdhar
- ▶ 1:58 Ishan Girdhar So I went back, got a job, and one of my partners approached me and said, hey, I just started having to fill out security assessment questionnaires, and it was in a Word document, and it came from a big four. 2 times in the scene
10 - Investing in Early-Stage Cybersecurity and Enterprise Software Startups with Rain Capital Partner David Cross
- ▶ 1:10 David Cross I spent a number of years at Microsoft and Google and Oracle.
- ▶ 6:56 David Cross Do you need the same thing if you're a Windows laptop shop versus a Linux server environment?
- ▶ 11:35 David Cross Let's go back to way back in the late nineties, nineties in where Microsoft and Windows NT for an internet information server, right?
8 - Transforming Post-Acute Care with Citus Health Founder Melissa Kozak
- ▶ 20:02 Melissa Kozak I went into every meeting, every boardroom, and I was in some boardrooms in New York City as this young founder, not an age, young in experience with only a PowerPoint deck talking to men in suits and holding my own.
4 - Investing in Legal Innovation with The LegalTech Fund's Co-Founder and Managing Director Zach Posner
- ▶ 25:36 Zach Posner I actually think it was Microsoft's best acquisition ever.
3 - AI-Driven Marketing for Law Firms with FirmPilot Founder Jake Soffer
- ▶ 17:31 Jake Soffer An idea I would have never had is so much better than someone who's X Google, Microsoft, MIT, whatever.
- ▶ 19:11 Jake Soffer A lot of the people on our sales team call me old or old fashioned because like my way of selling is literally get an Excel spreadsheet and just hammer the freaking phone and email.