Microsoft, every mention
12 scenes (2018), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2018 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
#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.