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What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 48:54 unnamed speaker You know, he called Microsoft, Bill Gates, the arch enemy. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:02 unnamed speaker They were gonna produce Word for Apple, and they were gonna invest
- ▶ 50:45 unnamed speaker That's what Windows was. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:31 unnamed speaker Bill Gates and Microsoft are the future.
The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 1:13:15 Brad Jacobs It's a story that's being told by management, and it's done by PowerPoint, it's done by rehearsed presentations that come up, and it's a complete waste, almost a complete waste of time.
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 5:01 Bill Gurley So if I know what they value, even if we're starting at a very early place, two people in a PowerPoint, you're still thinking about when this thing grows up, is it going to be something they're excited about?
- ▶ 19:36 Bill Gurley People point to Microsoft, you know, starting with the OS, and then, you know, there were, there was Lotus one, two, three, and there was, I forget, I can't even, oh, there was a WordPerfect.
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 10:00 Mark Pincus Like, you know, 1991, and I figured out, like, the PowerPoint animation, and I showed their graph with a flashing X in it.
The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik
- ▶ 31:29 Mario Harik In some cases it's an Excel spreadsheet.
- ▶ 1:20:47 Mario Harik And however, before I even ask the questions, I actually would have reviewed the Excel spreadsheets of data if I have to, to be able to look at the information and what the data is saying.
Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
- ▶ 8:42 Connor Teskey There's almost a false degree of precision in, in today's world of Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:16 Connor Teskey I, I don't know that when people think I work hard, it's, you know, I was crunching more Excel models or building more PowerPoint.
- ▶ 13:16 Connor Teskey I, I don't know that when people think I work hard, it's, you know, I was crunching more Excel models or building more PowerPoint.
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 1:52:22 Morgan Housel I think I can be like, oh, let me just pull up Excel, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna calculate this and figure it out.
How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
- ▶ 1:42:12 James Clear I just had this word doc.
Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- ▶ 21:37 Shane Parrish Perot had built EDS and the Microsoft of its era through military precision and sheer will, and Ken set up a meeting in Dallas.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 36:05 Rory Sutherland So there was a very smart person I met at Microsoft who, when they, uh, when they took over some fairly niche Microsoft product, they put the call center in the middle of the development team. 2 times in the scene
Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
- ▶ 38:58 Shane Parrish Because in Boston, Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin had been working on something called VisiCalc, short for Visible Calculator, the world's first electronic spreadsheet, Excel's ancient ancestor. 2 times in the scene
Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- ▶ 30:39 Anthony Scilipoti So you have the likes of the NVIDIAs of the world, and let's say Microsoft, and you have OpenAI and such, and NVIDIA is investing in OpenAI, and Microsoft is an investor in OpenAI. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:36 Anthony Scilipoti So if, you know, if one of the large, if, if Microsoft were to miss, and I'm not saying they're going to miss anything, but if they, if their earning growth slows.
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 0:51 Benedict Evans Does it end up kind of getting Microsofted in the sense that...
- ▶ 3:42 Benedict Evans It wasn't clear that the browser wasn't where the value capture was, because Microsoft 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:10 Benedict Evans I'm pretty sure people thought Microsoft had an advantage on the internet, and Google and, um, Meta had an advantage on mobile, and everyone thought IBM was going to win PCs.
- ▶ 1:00:37 Benedict Evans Like, this was a technology that had been kind of floating around before ChatGPT, 3.5, and everyone kind of saw that it didn't work very well, and then ChatGPT works, well, no, actually it works well enough, and then there's this explosion… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:59 Benedict Evans So everyone bought a Windows PC, but they were using it to do, to do web stuff, not Microsoft stuff.
- ▶ 1:07:13 Benedict Evans Microsoft, there was this line from Bismarck that the great man is somebody who hears God's footsteps through history and grabs onto his code as he walks past. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:42 Benedict Evans On the other hand, like, they're going to sell an awful lot of Azure to run all this stuff. 2 times in the scene
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- ▶ 1:06:01 Reed Hastings Um, and there might be some correlation that, uh, founder-led ones, you know, are extraordinary, but, um, you know, Microsoft under Satya Nadella has done incredibly well.
Andy Grove: Only The Paranoid Survive [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:01:05 Shane Parrish Chip manufacturers like Intel, computer assemblers like Dell and Compaq, operating system providers like Microsoft and application developers.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 34:24 Shane Parrish And it sort of favors the Googles, the Microsofts, the people with a ton of capital. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:10 Elad Gil If you look at, um, Azure's last quarter, I think it was like a twenty eight billion dollar quarter or something like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:58 Elad Gil IBM was the biggest funder of Linux in the nineties as a counterbalance to Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:57 Elad Gil So for example, you could argue Zoom and Slack got capped by Microsoft launching stuff into Teams, um, in terms of taking parts of the market or creating a more competitive market dynamic for them.
- ▶ 51:57 Elad Gil So for example, you could argue Zoom and Slack got capped by Microsoft launching stuff into Teams, um, in terms of taking parts of the market or creating a more competitive market dynamic for them.
- ▶ 54:45 Elad Gil You could argue such a, Microsoft is a good example of somebody who has more of a founder mindset. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:16 Shane Parrish I've been in the sauna at the gym with a number of people on like Microsoft Teams calls.
- ▶ 1:25:58 Elad Gil Microsoft, it was unequal.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 1:15:01 Garry Tan It's like asking, like, uh, I guess will Windows or Mac win or, you know, we're just literally living through that time where very, very smart people are, you know, fighting over the marbles right now.
- ▶ 1:39:41 Garry Tan Like, in the past, what tech would do is, we'd be selling you hardware, we'd be selling you a computer on every desk, like, everyone needs a smartphone, you know, we're selling you Microsoft Office, we're selling you package software,…
- ▶ 1:39:41 Garry Tan Like, in the past, what tech would do is, we'd be selling you hardware, we'd be selling you a computer on every desk, like, everyone needs a smartphone, you know, we're selling you Microsoft Office, we're selling you package software,…
- ▶ 1:43:26 Garry Tan Um, I guess the funniest thing is, uh, Microsoft, I think, is defining it when it gets its hundred billion dollars back, but, uh, I, you know, am sort of skeptical of that because, uh, you know, I think basically only Elon Musk then would,…
- ▶ 1:56:19 Garry Tan Um, but short of that, I mean, maybe Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, 4 times in the scene
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 15:21 Shane Parrish But people get long runs when they're right on the edge of the wave, whether it's Microsoft or Intel or all kinds of people, including National Cash Register in the early days.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 17:31 Bret Taylor Microsoft has gone through that transition, um, for that reason.
- ▶ 58:12 Shane Parrish On the other hand, you have people like OpenAI, uh, and Microsoft investing tons of money into it that may be more proprietary, or, um, how do you think about 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:05 Shane Parrish Microsoft has a revenue model around their AI investments.
- ▶ 1:03:09 Shane Parrish They just updated the price of Teams with Copilot.
- ▶ 1:03:09 Shane Parrish They just updated the price of Teams with Copilot.
- ▶ 1:05:47 Bret Taylor Oh yeah, if you built your own servers, you'll spend less than renting them from, say, Amazon Web Services or Azure.
- ▶ 1:22:16 Bret Taylor And so I think that, uh, just in the same way, if you're an accountant, you know, using Excel doesn't make you less of an accountant, uh, and, um, and just because you didn't, you know, handcraft that math equation, it doesn't make the…
- ▶ 1:33:48 Bret Taylor Um, we found this, uh, small company with, like, four people in it, if I'm remembering correctly, started by Lars and Jens Rasmussen called Where To Technologies, where, um, they had made a Windows application called Expedition, um, that… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:01:10 Bret Taylor Um, I remember one time, uh, when this sort of peak of the smartphone wars, and I ended up visiting a friend on Microsoft's campus, and, uh, I got off the plane and, you know, Seattle-Tacoma Airport, drove into Redmond, went onto the… 2 times in the scene
Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
- ▶ 45:05 Bruce Flatt We're building from Microsoft thirteen billion dollars of power plants.
David Heacock: Building Filterbuy
- ▶ 48:06 David Heacock And so, you know, basically if you search for air filter or any iteration of an air filter, like 20 by 20 by one air filter or 20 by 25 by five air filter or furnace filter or AC filter, HVAC filter on Google or Amazon or Bing, then, you…
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:11 Shane Parrish Alfred went on to help build and sell Link Exchange to Microsoft, then scaled Zappos from startup to its 1.2 billion dollar acquisition by Amazon as the COO and CFO.
- ▶ 20:51 Alfred Lin We sold that to Microsoft for two hundred sixty five million dollars, and, um, that was quite the experience.
- ▶ 1:12:46 Alfred Lin You know, link exchange, do we want to, do we want to sell the company to Microsoft?
- ▶ 1:45:28 Shane Parrish Do you think Google and Microsoft, like how, how do you think you compete with them on a foundational model basis? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54:21 Alfred Lin Well, if you want to use don't fight the tape, when I, when I started in my technology career, Microsoft was the largest technology company, and today they're the largest company, and so they seem to have figured out through their ups and…
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- ▶ 10:49 Codie Sanchez And then I went to Goldman Sachs, where I think to get into Goldman as like a little peon analyst, which is what I was, um, I think I had to do like 13 interviews, and like PowerPoint presentations, and this, and at the time I was like,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:48 Codie Sanchez And I put together this PowerPoint that kind of explained why, and I thought through these frameworks, and I looked at these historical models, and like, that was the reason why.
Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
- ▶ 25:53 Charlie Hoehn A lot of self-published authors are like, I'll go to Upwork, or I'll, I'll hit up my designer friend who puts together PowerPoints, and I'll pay them 500 bucks.
- ▶ 28:51 Charlie Hoehn And so he wrote a book, I think it's called It's Not All About You, or It's Not All About Me, and this cover looks like it was created in Microsoft Word, and it's, it's the classic, like, white, three-D clay, you know, image, uh, with,…
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 1:14:44 John Mackey And I'd met Jeff the year before at this Microsoft CEO Summit, and I hit it off with Jeff.
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 1:03:26 John Bragg An article on the weekend, a contrarian view, but Buffett's maybe, Berkshire's not doing so well, but they compare it with Apple and Microsoft and some high flyers that have done extremely well.
Matthew Dicks: The Storytelling Expert
- ▶ 1:18:21 Shane Parrish In an Excel spreadsheet, that's what you use.
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 25:03 Brian Halligan That if you're hiring someone that you want to go from two to 2000, you're just really attracted by that person who came from Google or Microsoft or whatever huge company with a huge resume and all that stuff.
- ▶ 36:53 Brian Halligan And then he wrote a PowerPoint presentation called the HubSpot culture code that basically described the relationship, the employees and company, and just sort of outlined how we thought about culture. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:22 Brian Halligan Because Microsoft was going very, very sideways for a long time, and he stepped in and really did change the culture in a massive company and, and couldn't be more impressed with him and the culture change and, and how well that worked.
#197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make
- ▶ 1:01:23 Michaeleen Doucleff He gave him this, like, hour long PowerPoint on what the phone does to his brain, and how it works, and how the, this thing called sign tracking and all this stuff.
Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- ▶ 17:12 Morgan Housel Back in the nineties, it was, ah, it was AOL, and Cisco, and Microsoft, and Dell, and those kind of companies.
- ▶ 51:33 Morgan Housel The example that I always use is Bill Gates when he started Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
Brad Jacobs: How To Build a Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 1:11:53 Brad Jacobs It's a story that's being told by management, and it's done by PowerPoint, it's done by rehearsed presentations that come up, and it's a complete waste, almost a complete waste of time.
Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
- ▶ 33:33 Adam Robinson I paid some programmers to hard code what I normally do using Excel.
Nathan Myhrvold
- ▶ 1:55 Shane Parrish He's the co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and the former CTO of Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:54 Nathan Myhrvold Then Microsoft bought the company, and I was at Microsoft. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:10 Nathan Myhrvold Um, it wasn't that great, uh, by my current standards, but it wasn't such a disaster that it, you know, turned me away from the topic, so I had always been very serious about food and cooking, and at one point while I was working at…
- ▶ 5:55 Shane Parrish Take me back to Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
Tobi Lütke: Calm Progress
- ▶ 19:12 Tobi Lütke Nadella has done it at Microsoft in a phenomenal way, like, potentially better than many founder CEOs can.
TKP Insights: Making (Even) Better Decisions
- ▶ 17:23 Venkatesh Rao So it's like I'm trying to run a Windows program on a Mac computer without realizing it.
- ▶ 48:32 Patrick Collison Uh, in that you can sort of draw a lineage of HP and Intel and Microsoft and Google and Facebook and so on.
Reid Hoffman: Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes
- ▶ 1:33 Shane Parrish Reid is on the board of Microsoft and was on the board of Airbnb for a decade.
- ▶ 8:45 Reid Hoffman You know, kind of a Microsoft OneNote is I have a, a list of all of the people that I interface with that I keep a running agenda with.
- ▶ 10:09 Reid Hoffman Like one of the things that the funny thing is, is people will frequently say like Amazon is a six page written report and, and, um, Microsoft is a PowerPoint and so forth.
- ▶ 10:09 Reid Hoffman Like one of the things that the funny thing is, is people will frequently say like Amazon is a six page written report and, and, um, Microsoft is a PowerPoint and so forth. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:14 Shane Parrish You've had over a thousand board meetings between Microsoft, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, and more. 3 times in the scene
Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought
- ▶ 50:17 Barbara Tversky Now, I can talk and lecture with, with, with my PowerPoint, but I can't animate it as well as I can in a classroom, where I'm standing and moving and pointing and, and gesturing big. 2 times in the scene
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 14:39 Kunal Shah So I would like teach them Excel and, and I would not know these subjects.
Sarah Jones Simmer: The Foundation of Trust
- ▶ 4:05 Sarah Jones Simmer There's this beautiful detailed Excel model, um, that like the infrastructure's there and the heart isn't.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 2:50:45 Balaji Srinivasan It'll take a while, but you know, it's possible to get turned around like Microsoft, but that's, that's where they are right now.
- ▶ 2:51:34 Balaji Srinivasan People kept making money doing windows programming in the 2020 tens, and you could make money and you can still make money doing that.
- ▶ 2:52:25 Balaji Srinivasan I will say actually just on a pure performance basis, I do think Satya Nadella has done phenomenally well, like turning around Microsoft, you know, under Steve, like the run he had, forget about where the stock price is like as of this… 2 times in the scene
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 6:10 Walter Isaacson Microsoft teams.
#112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
- ▶ 59:32 Shane Parrish And I like how it's not PowerPoint
#111 Joel Greenblatt: Investing Made Simple
- ▶ 23:08 Joel Greenblatt So, uh, most of the big indexes are driven by the Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and those businesses don't seem very irrational to me. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:05 Joel Greenblatt So, uh, uh, one of the things that I was hopeful would catch on, and that some of the major companies were talking about, not as such a responsibility, but something they can do to help themselves, meaning get more diverse talent, is… 2 times in the scene
#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
- ▶ 12:29 Matt Mullenweg So, uh, we've always targeted, and I got this, there seemed to be sort of a law of platforms, um, going all the way back to like DOS and Windows. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:37 Matt Mullenweg If you look at like the launch of Windows, one of the things Microsoft would talk about, oh, do you remember that launch? 2 times in the scene
#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- ▶ 28:13 Sahil Lavingia And Excel starts erroring out, and you're like, yes, like this, we can, we can do this forever if we need to.
#95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical
- ▶ 36:05 Shane Parrish I might be making this up, but I remember when Microsoft was under the antitrust sort of microscope, and I think Bill Gates said something to the effect of the best technology doesn't win.
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