Microsoft, every mention
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every year anyone Shane Parrish 47Ben Thompson 20Benedict Evans 15Elad Gil 12Bret Taylor 11Mike Maples Jr. 8Jim Collins 8Garry Tan 8Nathan Myhrvold 7Reid Hoffman 6
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
#93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
- ▶ 8:54 Shane Parrish And so you started a linchpin and you, you had an unconventional sort of way of, of starting that company, which is releasing privilege elevation, uh, to get some attention on Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:42 Shane Parrish Uh, let's walk through Windows. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:19 Shane Parrish Like, is it the same sort of system that you would use for Windows or Apple? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:13 Matthew Holland It's a series of tools from, uh, NSA that got leaked, um, Windows vulnerabilities, you know, went to WikiLeaks. 2 times in the scene
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 1:00:23 Bethany McLean Steve Ballmer helped me with a story I did on Microsoft, um, 2 times in the scene
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 27:53 Jason Calacanis What about the 50 companies that tried to compete with Microsoft that are no longer here?
- ▶ 45:23 Jason Calacanis Steve Ballmer did at Microsoft, which was, you know, a lost decade on a product basis.
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 48:04 Mike Maples Jr. You know, you can say, okay, I'm coming out with windows for college students, or I'm coming out with smart water rather than fancy packaged gourmet water.
- ▶ 51:25 Mike Maples Jr. Microsoft's won. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:27 Mike Maples Jr. Nobody can build windows apps without being co-opted.
- ▶ 51:58 Mike Maples Jr. And Microsoft, when they did Bing, they just didn't have the internal skill to be an effective competitor with Google on Google's playing field.
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 1:13:42 Neil Pasricha I made an Excel spreadsheet of every company I could think of that I wanted to work at, and it had also been through a hard time, a flat stock price for a decade, a PR crisis, something that would make it interesting, but also, um, that…
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 1:28:24 Jim Collins The other is a small company in Seattle called Microsoft that makes computer languages. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:09 Jim Collins He gets this QDOS thing and a variety of other things, and then it's the return on luck, and then building upon that, right, the flywheel effect of Windows. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:58:46 Jim Collins And put it over on a Windows machine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:21:03 Jim Collins I think the shift that Bill Gates has taken from running Microsoft to leading in about world health in the foundation with his wife, Melinda, those are really different in context.
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 30:08 Hugh Howey We'll learn to trust them like the way, um, we trusted, uh, Apple's operating system over Windows. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:15 Hugh Howey Like imagine if in 15 years ago, Apple and Microsoft were both building self-driving cars, the blue screen of death would actually be a blue screen of death, and no one would put their life behind a Windows product.
Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- ▶ 38:46 Gabriel Weinberg There were a bunch of companies who raised a bunch of money all trying to do that, basically compete with Google at their core game, and realize it's somewhat, it was somewhat unnecessary because there were a few different index, web…
- ▶ 41:39 Shane Parrish So it's like Google give you access to their sort of like, uh, we currently don't work with Google at the moment, but there's still, um, Yahoo, Microsoft.
#50 Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future
- ▶ 18:24 Josh Wolfe It's the only board he's been on besides Berkshire and Microsoft.
- ▶ 41:07 Josh Wolfe Becomes Bill's right-hand guy for a decade plus in Microsoft.
- ▶ 1:27:13 Josh Wolfe I was at a board meeting, and there was somebody there from Google, and there was somebody there who spent a lot of time at Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 1:03:27 Tobi Lütke You know, things like don't prepare a PowerPoint presentation is a good one.
- ▶ 1:37:06 Tobi Lütke After I hired my first CFO, I, every single spreadsheet I got from him, um, looked really, really complicated, and was far beyond my Excel skill set, but I learned how to use the craziest Excel lookups, because I need, like, I just rebuilt…
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 4:03 Shane Parrish I mean, you worked at Microsoft, you worked at Apple, you worked at Automatic. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:18 Ben Thompson Um, you know, the case of Mike, I wrote about Microsoft last week in the reorganization.
- ▶ 1:04:57 Ben Thompson Well, it was impossible for someone in their garage to compete with Microsoft, and I think that's what people don't appreciate about these sort of dominant players in these sort of epochs, is they are tied to the paradigm of, of the… 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:56 Ben Thompson So you, you, you would have to get funding with a PowerPoint just to even do, do anything. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:26 Ben Thompson And, and, you know, it's like the example of, like, saying Microsoft failed because of the actions of Steve Ballmer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:38 Ben Thompson Like there's, I remember when I was at Microsoft, the, the email team did a study about the different kinds of like people, the way people use email.
#37 Annie Duke: Getting Better by Being Wrong
- ▶ 1:03:15 Annie Duke and there's Apple and Microsoft out there
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 56:03 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.
- ▶ 1:40:24 Patrick Collison So if Seattle and, uh, and the Bay Area kind of together, right, and look at the kind of that aggregate urban zone, you know, separated as they are by a two and a half hour flight, then of course you can layer in Amazon and, and, uh, and…
#30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
- ▶ 4:03 Margaret Heffernan And, um, you know, to be honest, the engineers mostly did PowerPoint presentations, and the marketing people mostly did kind of stand-up comedy routines.
#22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind
- ▶ 2:32 Adam Grant And every week I transcribe the, like the little notes that are handwritten into a word document, super high tech.
Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- ▶ 1:24:03 Rory Sutherland We had to launch back in the nineties, a new, very significant product for Microsoft, and we had to launch it to a community of about 300 developers.
#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
- ▶ 31:22 Pedro Domingos Trying to learn from initially no data or very little data will have a very hard time competing with, with Google or Bing.
#11 Ryan Holiday: The Stoic Whisperer
- ▶ 31:46 Ryan Holiday So it's a big, then I switched to, and this is all personal, but then I switched to Microsoft Word.
#7 Venkatesh Rao: The Three Types of Decision Makers
- ▶ 18:24 Venkatesh Rao So it's like I'm trying to run a Windows program on a Mac computer without realizing it.
#5 Chris Dixon: The State of Venture Capital
- ▶ 4:54 Chris Dixon And there were firms kind of around, it was, it all happened in Silicon Valley around, you know, the rise of firms like Intel, um, Apple, um, you know, those kinds of things, Microsoft, um,
#3 Sanjay Bakshi: Why Mental Models
- ▶ 37:43 Shane Parrish You integrate that into the Word documents afterwards.
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