Microsoft, every mention
12 scenes (2024), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
- ▶ 25:53 Charlie Hoehn A lot of self-published authors are like, I'll go to Upwork, or I'll, I'll hit up my designer friend who puts together PowerPoints, and I'll pay them 500 bucks.
- ▶ 28:51 Charlie Hoehn And so he wrote a book, I think it's called It's Not All About You, or It's Not All About Me, and this cover looks like it was created in Microsoft Word, and it's, it's the classic, like, white, three-D clay, you know, image, uh, with,…
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 1:14:44 John Mackey And I'd met Jeff the year before at this Microsoft CEO Summit, and I hit it off with Jeff.
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 1:03:26 John Bragg An article on the weekend, a contrarian view, but Buffett's maybe, Berkshire's not doing so well, but they compare it with Apple and Microsoft and some high flyers that have done extremely well.
Matthew Dicks: The Storytelling Expert
- ▶ 1:18:21 Shane Parrish In an Excel spreadsheet, that's what you use.
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 25:03 Brian Halligan That if you're hiring someone that you want to go from two to 2000, you're just really attracted by that person who came from Google or Microsoft or whatever huge company with a huge resume and all that stuff.
- ▶ 36:53 Brian Halligan And then he wrote a PowerPoint presentation called the HubSpot culture code that basically described the relationship, the employees and company, and just sort of outlined how we thought about culture. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:22 Brian Halligan Because Microsoft was going very, very sideways for a long time, and he stepped in and really did change the culture in a massive company and, and couldn't be more impressed with him and the culture change and, and how well that worked.
#197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make
- ▶ 1:01:23 Michaeleen Doucleff He gave him this, like, hour long PowerPoint on what the phone does to his brain, and how it works, and how the, this thing called sign tracking and all this stuff.
Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- ▶ 17:12 Morgan Housel Back in the nineties, it was, ah, it was AOL, and Cisco, and Microsoft, and Dell, and those kind of companies.
- ▶ 51:33 Morgan Housel The example that I always use is Bill Gates when he started Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
Brad Jacobs: How To Build a Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 1:11:53 Brad Jacobs It's a story that's being told by management, and it's done by PowerPoint, it's done by rehearsed presentations that come up, and it's a complete waste, almost a complete waste of time.