Microsoft PowerPoint, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft PowerPoint comes up
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
- ▶ 21:48 Lenny Rachitsky Like hearing this, I could see why investors would be like, you know, like, I guess so, but Slides has been around, PowerPoint has been around for 40 years.
- ▶ 1:05:44 Grant Lee We just tell you, Hey, this is an alternative to PowerPoint.
- ▶ 1:14:19 Grant Lee We thought we could actually introduce that could be better than how you work in PowerPoint today.
- ▶ 1:21:12 Grant Lee And the default tool today is going into like a PowerPoint or Google slides where
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 19:12 Asha Sharma We use docs, like everybody uses word and PowerPoint.
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire)
- ▶ 20:27 Chip Conley And don't, I think the other thing is, um, PowerPoint or whatever, whatever tool you're using.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 39:29 Bob Baxley And three, you should optimize for innovation over PowerPoint compatibility. 2 times in the scene
Rituals of Great Decision-Making | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- ▶ 9:19 Shishir Mehrotra The first one was, there was this really famous memo that got sent out from Jeff Bezos saying, no more PowerPoints.
Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- ▶ 27:42 Tamar Yehoshua So you have, you can't, he doesn't believe in PowerPoint.
Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- ▶ 2:07:34 Jeff Weinstein We don't need to do big internal updates with long-winded PowerPoint presentations and scrambles the night before.
How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)
- ▶ 13:35 Matthew Dicks You've never asked to see a PowerPoint presentation a second time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:38 Matthew Dicks PowerPoint prison to everything. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:53 Lenny Rachitsky Maybe giving a present, like a PowerPoint deck in a meeting.
The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
- ▶ 52:21 Melissa Perri Sometimes those people are really good at Excel and PowerPoint, but they're not great at the Looker and BI.
Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, TripAdvisor)
- ▶ 1:13:17 Maggie Crowley And I think one of the first pieces of content that I was really happy with was like, I was working with somebody and they were making a PowerPoint presentation slides or whatever.
What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)
- ▶ 1:13:58 Lane Shackleton We had PowerPoint, you know, it was like this amazing tool. 3 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)
- ▶ 1:19:25 Ronny Kohavi But when I was at Amazon, I still remember that email from Jeff, which is no more PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene
Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks
- ▶ 14:37 Nancy Duarte They use PowerPoint, like we use whatever tool the brand wants, and we push it in each medium.
Building better roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
- ▶ 16:06 Janna Bastow One of the things that I've stopped doing is I used to sit down with a PowerPoint and start writing my deck in PowerPoint for slides now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:58 Janna Bastow Now I can stop using PowerPoint or