Microsoft, every mention
22 scenes (2019), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
every year 2019 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
Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 11:28 Mike Volpi As a business is you partner with Google and Azure who, because they're pretty far behind Amazon, they're more than happy to have the original item and to pay you something for the privilege of running your version. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:40 Mike Volpi So if you look at the latest announcement from Google or from, uh, Facebook or from, uh, Microsoft, sorry, they, they have, um, uh, Confluent running in the cloud, the original version, they have Redis, they have Mongo, they have Elastic…
- ▶ 32:01 unnamed speaker Um, you know, just recently the government gave Azure a ten billion dollars contract over Amazon. 4 times in the scene
Data Science Is A Literacy, Not A Job // Peter Wang, Anaconda (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 17:34 unnamed speaker Um, so, I mean, I, I completely agree that, um, getting more people in an organization, uh, Python literate and data science literate is extremely important, but in practice when I've tried to do that with some of my teammates who are used… 6 times in the scene
Empowering Superheroes at Work // Rich Waldron, Tray (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 14:22 Rich Waldron Typically we see people that are quants or, um, particularly useful with spreadsheets and can build heavy Excel models are a really good tray user.
Fireside Chat: Pedro Domingos, Head of Machine Learning, DE Shaw (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 30:43 Pedro Domingos I think it's probably not gonna be a million either, which means that, you know, Microsoft Windows is already much bigger than that, you know, for much less intelligence.
Fireside Chat: Thomas Reardon, Founder & CEO, CTRL-Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 18:30 Matt Turck You left the acquirer, uh, to join Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:39 Thomas Reardon I, I went and worked on Windows for quite a while, and then I started up Internet Explorer, uh, in 94, um, and then, uh, uh, worked on IE all the way through IE four, when we finally sort of won the browser war.
What's Next for Open-Source Time Series Data? // Paul Dix, Influx Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Apache Druid & An Introduction to Data Rivers // FJ Yang, Imply (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Fireside Chat: Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Data Science & Engineering at Shopify (Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 33:04 Solmaz Shahalizadeh I think the birth paper that came out from Microsoft was really interesting.
The Case for Hiring More Analysts // Benn Stancil, Mode (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 18:24 Benn Stancil Um, and so, I think, yeah, at the end of the day, they're gonna need SQL skills, they're gonna, they might need Python or R skills, they'll need something like Excel, um, but those things are, are learnable, whereas I think, like, the way…
Fireside Chat: Zach Perret, Founder & CEO of Plaid (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 14:08 Zach Perret Um, so, you know, it's, it's, it's a, it's a human that is collecting data from a person and, and, and they're kind of like plugging bits into an Excel model and then coming back with an answer.
Fireside Chat: Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 22:31 Martin Casado These larger incumbents, you know, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to compete against with you.
Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 18:54 Nick Rockwell I think it's true, and the other, um, factor, the really, the bigger factor is that the level of investment going into infrastructure from the big cloud providers dwarfs, and even, even, you know, the investment of effort that, like, a…
Why Does The World Need Another Computer? // Anant Bhardwaj, Instabase (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 5:14 Anant Bhardwaj Earlier people used mainframes with terminals, then basically we went into servers and desktops, and now we are basically getting into this cloud with Amazon and Google Cloud and Microsoft.
- ▶ 5:35 Anant Bhardwaj Or it could be this one, which is Microsoft Azure, provides a bunch of services.
- ▶ 6:37 Anant Bhardwaj Ah, which has drives, which is, like, mounted file system, the way you have on Windows or Mac, you can mount, like, different storage systems.
- ▶ 7:49 Anant Bhardwaj Maybe very first step could be process the files, where files could be PDF or images or Excel, Word, PowerPoint, whatever.
- ▶ 7:49 Anant Bhardwaj Maybe very first step could be process the files, where files could be PDF or images or Excel, Word, PowerPoint, whatever.
- ▶ 7:49 Anant Bhardwaj Maybe very first step could be process the files, where files could be PDF or images or Excel, Word, PowerPoint, whatever.
- ▶ 18:07 Anant Bhardwaj So it's pretty similar to lambda function, the way you saw, but it basically uses Excel-like grammar, and then from there it basically invokes.