Microsoft, every mention
19 scenes (2016), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
every year 2016 anyone Matt Turck 78Benedict Evans 42George Sivulka 25Amr Awadallah 18Mike Palmer 15Tomasz Tunguz 13Sandy Steier 11Mike Tuchen 11Chris Dixon 11Richard Socher 10
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Becoming an Internet Company // Raymie Stata, Altiscale [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 2:59 Raymie Stata A quarterly planning cycle that's kind of fed by a yearly planning cycle, you know, the, that, that process is very PowerPoint driven. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:51 Raymie Stata You know, there's this data insight action kind of aphorism that, that's, that's been around for decades, and, and quite honestly, I, I really don't like that because it leads to the PowerPoint, right? 2 times in the scene
Marketing With Data // Katrin Ribant, Datorama [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 19:58 Katrin Ribant We were not very good PowerPoint presentation, ah, and, ah,
Making Big Data Accessible Using the Cloud // Ashish Thusoo, Qubole [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 18:50 Ashish Thusoo You know, Azure is, is there. 2 times in the scene
Lessons Learned from Advanced Data Science Orgs // Domino Data Lab [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 20:40 Nick (Domino Data Lab) We, um, we've been really focused on the sort of data scientist, quantitative researcher persona, and, you know, we've had, we sort of have people at companies who just want to throw their Excel files in here, throw their PowerPoint files…
- ▶ 20:40 Nick (Domino Data Lab) We, um, we've been really focused on the sort of data scientist, quantitative researcher persona, and, you know, we've had, we sort of have people at companies who just want to throw their Excel files in here, throw their PowerPoint files…
- ▶ 21:21 Nick (Domino Data Lab) Um, because someone can ask a question like, well, you know, why do software engineers need GitHub when they're SharePoint? 2 times in the scene
A Kafka-Powered Real-Time Streaming Platform // Neha Narkhede, Confluent [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 9:41 Neha Narkhede In fact, these are some use of statistics from LinkedIn, or should I say Microsoft, which is where Kafka was born.
The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark)
- ▶ 18:32 Prakash Nanduri AWS, Azure, and potentially Google.
A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark)
- ▶ 3:32 Haoyuan Li Say for example, you may have cloud storage like Amazon S three, Microsoft storage, have Google storage like Google cloud storage,
Using AI to Predict the Performance of Text // Kieran Snyder, Textio (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 19:38 Kieran Snyder So, not surprisingly, if you're an engineer in the Pacific Northwest and you choose to work at Expedia compared to Microsoft or Amazon, maybe you're interested in travel.
A Fireside Chat With MongoDB CTO Eliot Horowitz (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 5:37 Eliot Horowitz So, you know, if you think about MongoDB, and why MongoDB is interesting to people, compared to a relational database, you know, the simplest example I use is, you know, a relational database is basically like Microsoft Excel on steroids. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:51 Eliot Horowitz You know, if you look at Oracle, you can find Oracle's revenue, database revenue, and Microsoft database revenue, and IBM's database revenue.
- ▶ 24:24 Eliot Horowitz On the other hand, everyone needs someone to run the database, to back up the database, to manage the database, you know, just like they do with, you know, Amazon or the Google or Microsoft Clouds, you know, people need people to help them.
- ▶ 25:38 Eliot Horowitz Um, so they do this a lot, so for those who don't know, so for example, Amazon has a product called RDS, which is Relational Database Service, and in that they have managed MySQL, managed MariaDB, managed Postgres, even managed Oracle and…
- ▶ 26:34 Eliot Horowitz You know, I think Amazon is, uh, you know, moving impressively fast in the cloud space, and I think they're sort of really changing the game there, but, and I think that, you know, what we see is a lot of, ah, a huge amount of Azure…
A Fireside Chat with Benchmark General Partner Peter Fenton (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 26:36 Peter Fenton I, you know, it's, it's, now, Azure is great, you know, I, I think they, they had the benefit of starting later, so Azure has, uh, gets back to, to where I think there are opportunities. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:58 Peter Fenton Now, Amazon eventually will get there, because they'll have, they'll get the latest generation of NVIDIA chips, but, um, I just wish it was more of a, I think, you know, of course, Microsoft is the second horse in that race, but it feels… 2 times in the scene