Microsoft, every mention
12 scenes (2019), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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every year 2019 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
#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