Microsoft, every mention
13 scenes (2020), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2020 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
#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- ▶ 28:13 Sahil Lavingia And Excel starts erroring out, and you're like, yes, like this, we can, we can do this forever if we need to.
#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
- ▶ 50:13 Matthew Holland It's a series of tools from, uh, NSA that got leaked, um, Windows vulnerabilities, you know, went to WikiLeaks. 2 times in the scene
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 1:00:23 Bethany McLean Steve Ballmer helped me with a story I did on Microsoft, um, 2 times in the scene
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 27:53 Jason Calacanis What about the 50 companies that tried to compete with Microsoft that are no longer here?
- ▶ 45:23 Jason Calacanis Steve Ballmer did at Microsoft, which was, you know, a lost decade on a product basis.
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 48:04 Mike Maples Jr. You know, you can say, okay, I'm coming out with windows for college students, or I'm coming out with smart water rather than fancy packaged gourmet water.
- ▶ 51:25 Mike Maples Jr. Microsoft's won. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:27 Mike Maples Jr. Nobody can build windows apps without being co-opted.
- ▶ 51:58 Mike Maples Jr. And Microsoft, when they did Bing, they just didn't have the internal skill to be an effective competitor with Google on Google's playing field.