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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- ▶ 1:09:34 Roman Ugarte Microsoft and others and a handful of maybe 10 or 20 companies.
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- ▶ 12:32 Brian Halligan and you're hiring this person who's been at Microsoft the last 10 years and has a fancy title and fancy division in Microsoft and you hire them. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 42:29 Sherwin Wu Who doesn't code, but loves using these tools and, you know, is like an Excel wizard or something.
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- ▶ 1:40 Lenny Rachitsky Ash was an early AI researcher at Alexa and Microsoft and has published over 35 research papers.
“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- ▶ 7:11 Molly Graham Most people thought we were going to sell it to Microsoft.
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 1:16:48 Jason Lemkin Microsoft's already said they're past peak employee.
- ▶ 1:18:30 Jason Lemkin Not, not just at the startups, at the Google clouds, at everywhere, the Azure, they're, they're hiring so many humans that net net, it's a positive for the profession, but not for the way we've done it in the past.
“I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey
- ▶ 56:21 Matt McGinnis It is dominated by Google and Microsoft.
- ▶ 1:14:58 Matt McGinnis It's a bit like saying Microsoft is a desktop operating system company, or, you know, it's like every, every company starts from somewhere and grows out from there.
The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
- ▶ 45:57 Elena Verna Finally, Excel can move over.
- ▶ 1:12:43 Elena Verna I don't think anybody has work-life balance, regardless of what company that they work at, even at Google or like Microsoft or any of the others, I think everybody's freaking out and running as fast as they can.
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 26:27 Alexander Embirikos When you don't know what you're supposed to use it for, uh, in the same way that if I think of like, I'm like on MS Teams or in Slack with a teammate, chat is pretty good.
- ▶ 49:49 Alexander Embirikos And what's quite cool is that, uh, you know, we, we shipped Atlas on, on Mac first, but now we're working on the Windows version. 3 times in the scene
The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- ▶ 38:45 Lenny Rachitsky Just like, here's an Excel spreadsheet.
Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
- ▶ 18:56 Tomer Cohen You have to build, we are building that layer that basically allows it to do so, whether it's co-pilot or cursor, windsurf, and so on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:05 Lenny Rachitsky Microsoft.
- ▶ 23:42 Tomer Cohen By far, though, the most important part was basically our own customization of it.
- ▶ 47:22 Tomer Cohen Teams and so on, how you do it.
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 13:59 Stewart Butterfield Uh, it's crazy because no one's going to switch to Gmail or to, to G Suite, Google Calendar from Outlook Exchange because the time zone picker is good.
- ▶ 13:59 Stewart Butterfield Uh, it's crazy because no one's going to switch to Gmail or to, to G Suite, Google Calendar from Outlook Exchange because the time zone picker is good.
- ▶ 23:25 Stewart Butterfield People would just like the, I can't remember if it's called urgent or important, but the flag in, in Outlook that like, you know, set the priority of a message for the recipients.
“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 AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
- ▶ 1:17 Lenny Rachitsky Aji was Chief Product Officer at Calendly and Typeform, and led product teams at Twitter, Atlassian, and Microsoft.
- ▶ 7:30 Lenny Rachitsky She's a chief vice president at Microsoft, working in AI, and she had this concept that products are evolving from product as artifact, where it's this like done thing you ship to a product as organism that continues to evolve based on…
- ▶ 36:43 Oji Udezue We were here when, you know, the internet dropped and everyone, you know, Microsoft thought it was behind.
- ▶ 56:20 Oji Udezue So when I was, you know, the last two years of my time at Microsoft, I switched to become a marketing lead because I was a little tired of PM at Microsoft specifically, and I was getting an MBA and I talked to Dave Mendlin. 2 times in the scene
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 1:05 Lenny Rachitsky Asha is Chief Vice President of Product for Microsoft's AI platform, where she oversees their AI infrastructure, foundation models, and agent tool chains, while also leading Applied Engineering, Responsible AI, and growth for the core AI…
- ▶ 4:45 Asha Sharma It's a, it's been a pretty interesting shift, especially over the last year or so, because when I got to Microsoft, um, it was kind of right after, uh, open AI and the large foundation models happen.
- ▶ 18:15 Asha Sharma And I think that both can be true that humans will continue to commit code and we'll find, you know, new ways to actually do that, whether it's in the IDE, whether it's in, you know, co-pilot, whether it's in, you know, some new…
- ▶ 19:12 Asha Sharma We use docs, like everybody uses word and PowerPoint.
- ▶ 19:12 Asha Sharma We use docs, like everybody uses word and PowerPoint.
- ▶ 20:03 Lenny Rachitsky But he said there's gonna be, like, a Windows version where it's much easier to understand what the hell is going on.
- ▶ 21:38 Asha Sharma You can assign a pull request to co-pilot.
- ▶ 29:21 Asha Sharma Um, like, uh, Microsoft is like the vision of a software factory and creating what Microsoft did, uh, wasn't inevitable. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:21 Asha Sharma And then from there, uh, you know, teams are operating in squads and they're kind of setting out, you know, four to six week, um, goals that they're trying to go after for problem areas to go ladder up to that, you know, and especially as… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:57 Asha Sharma Um, like this company for 50 years has had, you know, every reason not to succeed and it has. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:52 Lenny Rachitsky You're like, Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- ▶ 1:11 Nick Turley We haven't built Windows yet, and it will be obvious once we do.
- ▶ 50:10 Nick Turley Uh, we haven't built Windows yet, and it will be obvious once we do, but, you know, there, there, there's something that feels a little bit like, like, imagine MS-DOS, like, gone viral, and you were just trying to, like, hack, like, little… 2 times in the scene
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.
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 8:50 Bret Taylor We ended up finding Lars and Jens, uh, Rasmussen, who had been working on this windows mapping product.
- ▶ 54:36 Bret Taylor So, uh, if you look at the infrastructure as a service market and the cloud tooling market, like the Confluent and Databricks and stuff like a lot of the, um, Amazon and Azure and others have competing products in those areas because… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:22 Bret Taylor Like, like, like, like, like, like, the top five are the big, big ones like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, all that.
Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
- ▶ 24:30 Ben Mann Yeah, so, um, for the listeners, I was part of the GPT-III project at OpenAI, ended up being one of the first authors on the paper, and I also did a bunch of demos for Microsoft to help raise a billion dollars from them, did the tech… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:30 Ben Mann Yeah, so, um, for the listeners, I was part of the GPT-III project at OpenAI, ended up being one of the first authors on the paper, and I also did a bunch of demos for Microsoft to help raise a billion dollars from them, did the tech…
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 1:13 Lenny Rachitsky It's called the foundation sprint, and it emerged out of the famous design sprint, which Jake and Jay-Z co-created, and also from working with over 300 teams, building both new products at startups, and also with teams at larger companies…
- ▶ 6:03 Jake Knapp I, I had been working at the beginning of my career at Microsoft for a few years, went to Google,
Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos
- ▶ 1:07 Lenny Rachitsky David is the founder of Lexicon Branding, which pioneered the field of brand naming, and invented a few names that you may have heard of, including PowerBook, Pentium, BlackBerry, Swiffer, the Impossible Burger, also Vercel, and Windsurf,…
- ▶ 11:44 David Placek I I'll talk about Microsoft's Azure. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:44 David Placek I I'll talk about Microsoft's Azure. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:54 David Placek We'll replace, if we're working for Microsoft, the second team thinks they're working for Apple.
- ▶ 41:54 Lenny Rachitsky I heard you guys launched a new data intake product that automates the hours of manual work that teams spend importing and mapping and integrating CSV and Excel files. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:53 David Placek I mentioned Z that in Azure, that's noisy letter.
- ▶ 1:05:31 David Placek Uh, well, you know, then you get a client like Microsoft saying, well, Azure is different.
- ▶ 1:05:31 David Placek Uh, well, you know, then you get a client like Microsoft saying, well, Azure is different. 2 times in the scene
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- ▶ 4:53 Lenny Rachitsky For over 30 years, they've trained more than 250,000 product leaders at companies like Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce, equipping them with practical strategies to build and scale market winning products.
- ▶ 31:47 Lenny Rachitsky It turns out there's many CPOs at Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:51 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, and she, she, I asked her about like, why didn't Copilot, like the fastest growing companies in the world, Cursor, Windsurf, Lovable Bolt, all these guys, like Copilot was so ahead of these, these companies and, and these companies… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:32 Peter Deng There's so many distribution advantages that Google meet has that Google, uh, Facebook startup, uh, Microsoft teams has, uh, zoom has, but they're just these tiny little product craft, delightful things that I
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
- ▶ 1:47 Lenny Rachitsky It's 76 pages long, co-authored by OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Princeton, Stanford, and other leading institutions, and it analyzed over 1500 papers and came up with 200 different prompting techniques.
- ▶ 1:08:09 Sander Schulhoff There's, there's Cursor, there's, I guess, Windsurf, Devon, Copilot.
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
- ▶ 1:15:50 Lenny Rachitsky I realize there's many CPOs.
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- ▶ 31:30 Lenny Rachitsky I heard you guys launched a new data intake product that automates the hours of manual work that teams spend importing and mapping and integrating CSV and Excel files. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:37 Lenny Rachitsky I feel like that's just so hot and just like Microsoft had their announcement recently where they're like, now it's part of the OS window. 2 times in the scene
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 1:08 Lenny Rachitsky Prior to N-twenty-six, Mayur was global head of product at Binance, VP of product at Agoda, which is over a hundred billion dollar company based in Thailand, and a PM at Google and Microsoft.
- ▶ 5:03 Lenny Rachitsky So you've worked at Google, you worked at Microsoft, you worked at a company called Agoda, now you're at N-twenty-six.
- ▶ 15:05 Mayur Kamat The service is down, uh, and Wall Street Journal is writing an article that Google, Microsoft, Apple not working together causing the service to go down.
- ▶ 19:41 Mayur Kamat And I remember joining Microsoft first in my career. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:52 Mayur Kamat If you work at Microsoft or Google or OpenAI or some of these companies that become brands later, uh, it's something you can take with you when going part, the second part of your question is when you, if you decide to move, having that,…
- ▶ 1:20:44 Mayur Kamat Like Microsoft with mobile or Google with social or Facebook with enterprise, right?
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 0:38 Aparna Chennapragada I'll have another conversation at Microsoft, and that's a meeting.
- ▶ 1:01 Lenny Rachitsky You guys said Copilot, the first tool in the world at this stuff.
- ▶ 1:11 Lenny Rachitsky Aparna is Chief Product Officer at Microsoft, where she oversees AI product strategy for their productivity tools and their work on agents.
- ▶ 3:44 Lenny Rachitsky For over 30 years, they've trained more than 250,000 product leaders at companies like Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce, equipping them with practical strategies to build and scale market-winning products.
- ▶ 7:35 Lenny Rachitsky You worked at Google, Robinhood, you're on the board of eBay, you're on the board of Capital One, now you're at Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:21 Lenny Rachitsky There's like a team within Microsoft.
- ▶ 14:02 Lenny Rachitsky Okay, so, so with agents, I know that you're leading a lot of this work at Microsoft, and a lot of people are wondering what the hell, what the hell does this mean?
- ▶ 14:52 Aparna Chennapragada And now I think we are firmly in the assistance era, where there's, like, human driving the, you know, that's what we think of as co-pilot, right?
- ▶ 18:55 Aparna Chennapragada I'll have another conversation at Microsoft and that's a meeting.
- ▶ 19:55 Aparna Chennapragada You see with the Copilot, you see with ChatGPT, DeepSeq, this idea of thinking aloud, and it's kind of showing the work, uh, but how much do you do it?
- ▶ 27:10 Lenny Rachitsky Is there anything you do within Microsoft to operationalize that and make that just like a thing everyone has to do? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:48 Aparna Chennapragada Bowls of Excel.
- ▶ 35:23 Lenny Rachitsky Some kind of Microsoft tool, I imagine.
- ▶ 45:41 Lenny Rachitsky Interestingly, you guys were very well positioned to do really well in this space. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:34 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, on the flip side of this question, uh, there have been, uh, probably 5000 startups that have tried to disrupt Excel, and you guys just keep winning, so something there is working really well. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:48 Aparna Chennapragada So when I, um, came to Microsoft, uh, and I'm an Excel fan,
- ▶ 50:48 Lenny Rachitsky What would you say is the most pivotal moment in your career that eventually led you to becoming Chief Product Officer at Microsoft?
- ▶ 55:46 Lenny Rachitsky Is this like Microsoft teams or is this like a physical place with little robots?
- ▶ 57:37 Aparna Chennapragada I, I do use a lot of Microsoft products, GitHub Copilot being one of them, but I think the one that I maybe I'll pick is, um, Granola, I think is the name of the app.
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 40:19 Lenny Rachitsky I heard you guys launched a new data intake product that automates the hours of manual work that teams spend importing and mapping and integrating CSV and Excel files. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:28 Nabeel S. Qureshi But the exact same solution, they were previously kind of framing it as, uh, I think it was like supercharged Excel or something like that, and nobody was biting.
How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna
- ▶ 39:28 Lenny Rachitsky I heard you guys launched a new data intake product that automates the hours of manual work that teams spend importing and mapping and integrating CSV and Excel files. 2 times in the scene
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- ▶ 30:47 Lenny Rachitsky I heard you guys launched a new data intake product that automates the hours of manual work that teams spend importing and mapping and integrating CSV and Excel files. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:12 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, along those lines, it's interesting that Microsoft was actually, like, right at this set, like, at the center of this first with an amazing product, amazing distribution co-pilot. 4 times in the scene
Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
- ▶ 13:58 Daniel Larea It should be able to export it to Excel.
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