Microsoft, every mention
25 scenes (said by Shane Parrish), 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
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.
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
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
- ▶ 1:19:16 Shane Parrish I've been in the sauna at the gym with a number of people on like Microsoft Teams calls.
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
- ▶ 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.
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.
- ▶ 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
Matthew Dicks: The Storytelling Expert
- ▶ 1:18:21 Shane Parrish In an Excel spreadsheet, that's what you use.
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
- ▶ 5:55 Shane Parrish Take me back to Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
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.
- ▶ 23:14 Shane Parrish You've had over a thousand board meetings between Microsoft, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, and more. 3 times in the scene
#112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
- ▶ 59:32 Shane Parrish And I like how it's not PowerPoint
#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.
#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
Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- ▶ 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.
#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
#3 Sanjay Bakshi: Why Mental Models
- ▶ 37:43 Shane Parrish You integrate that into the Word documents afterwards.