Microsoft, every mention
31 scenes (2018), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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every year 2018 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
$0 to $60M in 2 Years // Bob Moore, Crossbeam (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 10:56 Mike Tuchen Are you going to take a risk on this new SQL server thing?
- ▶ 34:46 Mike Tuchen Microsoft's bet has been, ah, since they have such a great customer relationships and, um, such a great premise footprint, they're trying to leverage that in the cloud. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:50 Mike Tuchen and, you know, having lived through the multiple iterations of this, we saw, you know, the spreadsheet hell problem, we saw the Access database problem, we saw the SharePoint sprawl problem.
- ▶ 39:50 Mike Tuchen and, you know, having lived through the multiple iterations of this, we saw, you know, the spreadsheet hell problem, we saw the Access database problem, we saw the SharePoint sprawl problem.
- ▶ 40:00 Mike Tuchen This is, as a former Microsoft guy, I'm obviously putting these kind of Microsoft terms. 2 times in the scene
3 Heretical Ideas on the Future of Data // Ajay Kulkarni, TimescaleDB (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:57 Ajay Kulkarni Uh, so the, the modern database as we know it started, you know, really back in the 19 seventies with the creation of the first relational database at, at IBM called System R, and it was then commercialized into the first, you know,…
Fireside Chat: Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 24:33 Chris Dixon And, uh, um, uh, anyway, so what, but then, so what happened is tech companies then moved up the stack into services, so Microsoft's a services company, Adobe, you know, obviously Google and Facebook are, and now, um, developers have…
- ▶ 31:11 Chris Dixon You look back then, and there was, you know, they had a, they had a centralized competitor in Carta, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:16 Chris Dixon Um, which was made by Microsoft, and if you go back to 2001, when Wikipedia was started, and Carter was way better, and it had pictures, and all this other stuff, and Wikipedia was just an open thing, it was decentralized, but, and it had…
- ▶ 55:08 Chris Dixon I don't do, I don't invest in those areas, so I'll just caveat with that, but, ah, so I'm not an expert, um, but, you know, I think, like, I think that, I think if you have, um, ah, we do have, you know, companies that, that work in those… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:35 Chris Dixon You know, with Office or something, right?
- ▶ 55:36 Chris Dixon If they bundle, you know, they can bundle like, it's Quicken versus Microsoft Money, right?
Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 20:42 Natalie Evans-Harris And one of the things somebody said was, and this was somebody I think from Microsoft, said, well, we can just add my interview questions.
Fireside Chat: Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner at IA Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 2:03 Roger Ehrenberg He was the co-founder of Add ECN, which had sold to Microsoft, and he didn't love the way that things were going there, and he thought he, he could do it better on his own, and he came to me with a PowerPoint and an idea for reshaping the…
- ▶ 6:41 Roger Ehrenberg And then two years later, found Jesse Baerudy, who's our third partner, super smart, um, young man out of, uh, Penn M&T, masters in CS, Microsoft Insight Ventures, and then joined us.
- ▶ 18:45 Roger Ehrenberg Sometimes we invest, you know, again, Trade Desk was a PowerPoint.
Fireside Chat with Bob Muglia, CEO at Snowflake (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 2:36 Matt Turck Um, somewhere, but, uh, last quarter, uh, AWS reported a, uh, ten billion run rate, uh, growing at 45%, and then Microsoft Azure, uh, reported a seven million dollar run rate accelerating at 98%.
- ▶ 4:54 Matt Turck Um, so, um, I think the numbers were that Microsoft grew to a billion dollar, uh, in its first decade, but then ended its second decade at twenty four billion.
- ▶ 11:00 Matt Turck You were at Microsoft for- 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Matt Turck Uh, you were at Microsoft for 23 years, I believe started as the first technical person on the SQL Server and became the president of the Server and Tools entire division, um, and then left to work with Juniper as VP.
- ▶ 16:40 Bob Muglia Netiza, Teradata, Oracle, Vertica, Greenplum, SQL Server.
- ▶ 21:07 Matt Turck So there's, you know, Microsoft SQL Data Warehouse, Google BigQuery, IBM Dash GB. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:28 Bob Muglia East, but they're also in other regions around the world because they're a global organization, and they've also said, oh, and by the way, you know, we, we want a multi-cloud strategy, and we've chosen, you know, Microsoft as our, as our,…
Every Business Will Need a Data Refinery // Mark Johnson, Descartes Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 1:44 Mark Johnson It was a natural language search engine, uh, spun out of, uh, the linguistics group, uh, at Xerox PARC, sold to Microsoft, um, live search at the time, eventually became Bing.
- ▶ 1:44 Mark Johnson It was a natural language search engine, uh, spun out of, uh, the linguistics group, uh, at Xerox PARC, sold to Microsoft, um, live search at the time, eventually became Bing.
- ▶ 5:22 Mark Johnson Um, but Google seems to do this better than anybody else, no matter if Microsoft is pouring billions into Bing.
Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 1:12 Diego Oppenheimer Um, probably the most famous one that you've probably heard of is this, uh, spreadsheet, you have a love-hate relationship, uh, made by Microsoft.
- ▶ 1:12 Diego Oppenheimer Um, probably the most famous one that you've probably heard of is this, uh, spreadsheet, you have a love-hate relationship, uh, made by Microsoft.
- ▶ 4:34 Diego Oppenheimer In some cases, it might be with a little bit more beefy infrastructure, uh, doing on GPUs and on AWS or in Azure.
- ▶ 23:15 Diego Oppenheimer So we have good relationships with all the cloud providers, and some of them we actually do co-selling experiences with them where, you know, we're, you know, we're informing their sales forces to say, hey, this is a product that exists on…