Microsoft, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 48:54 unnamed speaker You know, he called Microsoft, Bill Gates, the arch enemy. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:02 unnamed speaker They were gonna produce Word for Apple, and they were gonna invest
- ▶ 50:45 unnamed speaker That's what Windows was. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:31 unnamed speaker Bill Gates and Microsoft are the future.
The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 1:13:15 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.
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 5:01 Bill Gurley So if I know what they value, even if we're starting at a very early place, two people in a PowerPoint, you're still thinking about when this thing grows up, is it going to be something they're excited about?
- ▶ 19:36 Bill Gurley People point to Microsoft, you know, starting with the OS, and then, you know, there were, there was Lotus one, two, three, and there was, I forget, I can't even, oh, there was a WordPerfect.
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 10:00 Mark Pincus Like, you know, 1991, and I figured out, like, the PowerPoint animation, and I showed their graph with a flashing X in it.
The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik
- ▶ 31:29 Mario Harik In some cases it's an Excel spreadsheet.
- ▶ 1:20:47 Mario Harik And however, before I even ask the questions, I actually would have reviewed the Excel spreadsheets of data if I have to, to be able to look at the information and what the data is saying.
Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
- ▶ 8:42 Connor Teskey There's almost a false degree of precision in, in today's world of Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:16 Connor Teskey I, I don't know that when people think I work hard, it's, you know, I was crunching more Excel models or building more PowerPoint.
- ▶ 13:16 Connor Teskey I, I don't know that when people think I work hard, it's, you know, I was crunching more Excel models or building more PowerPoint.
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 1:52:22 Morgan Housel I think I can be like, oh, let me just pull up Excel, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna calculate this and figure it out.
How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
- ▶ 1:42:12 James Clear I just had this word doc.