Microsoft, every mention
5 scenes (said by Ben Thompson), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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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
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 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.