Microsoft, every mention
17 scenes (2020), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
every year 2020 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: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 18:56 Tristan Handy All the technologies that are required to do a good job of answering those questions, whether that's, you know, sometimes Excel, sometimes SQL, sometimes Python or R, um, but they don't self-identify as technologists.
Fireside Chat: Amit Bendov (Founder & CEO, Gong) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 15:39 Amit Bendov It builds into like native API, but anything from all the web conferencing, um, Zoom, uh, WebEx, uh, Google Meet, Amazon, Chime, whatever you're using, uh, Microsoft Teams, obviously, uh, most of the telephony systems, uh, cell phones,
Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 31:57 David Cancel We have to fundamentally build a global brand because we are in a different part of the cycle right now where we are closer to Procter and Gamble and selling tied silk than we are in like, you know, building, um, homebrew computers and…
Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 6:54 George Fraser Generated from data in the data warehouse and then they're presented in a dashboard of a BI tool like Tableau or Looker or Microsoft Power BI or you name it.
Fireside Chat: Alex Rinke (Founder & CEO, Celonis) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 7:20 Matt Turck The reason why I ask you that is a question that comes up so many often in startup conversations like, oh, if only I could sign, you know, Microsoft or Amazon as a partner, I could accelerate, and then there's always like some, you know,…
- ▶ 18:08 Alex Rinke That would be, you know, opening an email or looking at an Excel sheet.
- ▶ 24:28 Matt Turck As an industry, like instead of, um, sending a bunch of people to look at processes and do PowerPoints to suggest how one should improve a process, you, you automate part of this.
Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:47 Nate Stewart And ultimately I ended up at Microsoft in their cloud and enterprise group at a really interesting time because 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:26 Nate Stewart It really makes it possible to build the types of applications and the types of architectures that you'd see coming out of an Amazon or a Microsoft or a Google, but it makes that technology available to every developers.
Fireside Chat: Jerome Pesenti (Head of AI, Facebook) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 25:43 Jerome Pesenti Oh, and that's another aspect, which is we're really trying to create a community, including actually partnering with, uh, you know, actually we're partnering with Google, we're partnering with Amazon, we're partnering with Microsoft, uh,…
- ▶ 56:05 Jerome Pesenti Uh, so first of all, Microsoft is a big proponent of Onyx.
How to Resurrect Innovation in the Enterprise // Amr Awadallah, Google (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:29 Amr Awadallah So we have mobile apps, uh, on the, on the, uh, about one order, two order, even three orders of magnitude more than we ever have or ever had, uh, with Windows and, uh, Linux, like traditional OS's.
- ▶ 17:49 Matt Turck Obviously, the, I mean, the very clear objective is to take over, uh, AWS and Azure. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:40 Amr Awadallah Of, uh, of Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat with Olivier Pomel (Founder & CEO of Datadog) and Matt Turck (Partner at FirstMark)
- ▶ 3:44 Olivier Pomel Um, a lot of the value prop for the cloud, you know, for Amazon Web Services and now Google and Azure, uh, is that instead of having a development team that builds an application and then, you know, you need to spend six months filing…
NLP—The Most Important Field of ML // Clement Delangue, Hugging Face (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:29 Clement Delangue Uh, using, uh, our library from medium-sized one, like, uh, Monzo, for example, the banking one, to really large ones, uh, like Bing or, uh, Apple.
- ▶ 20:38 unnamed speaker So you hear a lot of people saying that you can't compete with the big players, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, because they have so much data, and they've hired all the top people.