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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