Microsoft, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to win
- ▶ 10:06 Jon McNeill Go down the hall to the people at the Microsoft store who have to sell a slate two doors down from a Mac, MacBook Air.
- ▶ 25:50 Jon McNeill I, I get that it's easier to write to Amazon, Azure, and Google, and it's super difficult to write to an infinity number of tech stacks in SMB.
The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)
- ▶ 46:23 John Coogan That you can import into your valuation model for whether or not Microsoft is going to beat earnings.
- ▶ 46:41 John Coogan But you can also buy models that are prebuilt, like Excel models with data in them.
Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
- ▶ 29:32 Shaan Puri No, no, he made it the opposite of Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks
- ▶ 1:01:57 Scott Galloway What I've noticed is the Trump administration only walks back things when the markets move, and the fastest way to make the markets move right now is to go after the companies that are 40% of the S&P by unsubscribing from, from Amazon,… 2 times in the scene
The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
- ▶ 27:51 Ryan Smith You know, we had the market, Microsoft was coming, like, we sold too early.
5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)
- ▶ 18:58 Greg Isenberg Like, what are you more interested in talking about, uh, AI Excel or content automation on TikTok, getting followers on TikTok?
- ▶ 19:07 Sam Parr Uh, I, I don't like TikTok, but I do want to know how to get followers, but I want to know more so the Excel thing because I've been trying to find a replacement for 9 times in the scene
How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
- ▶ 18:56 Howie Liu The technology became very mature, and then it really became about, like, how can you go and either leverage your existing distribution if you're an incumbent, so it's really hard to compete against big existing players like Salesforce or…
- ▶ 32:37 Howie Liu I, I did, um, and, uh, actually I was introduced to them by Peter Fenton from Benchmark, who's our investor at Airtable, and, uh, you know, just one of the most, like, phenomenal, uh, pickers of talent and opportunity, uh, spaces, uh, that…
Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi
- ▶ 0:49 Shaan Puri People are studying PowerPoint decks.
How the smartest founders are winning in AI
- ▶ 36:11 Jason Lemkin Starting Microsoft.
Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000
- ▶ 25:24 Shaan Puri Did you see the CEO of Microsoft went on a podcast?
How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire
- ▶ 44:52 Shaan Puri So we're turning health into a sport and where they built a race track for sperm, two competitors, two samples, one microscopic finish line, and then they have a MS paint diagram of the track.
From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
- ▶ 5:03 James Currier Microsoft operating system. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:37 James Currier And then maybe you work for a big company to get a good brand like Google or Microsoft or whatever.
- ▶ 35:25 Shaan Puri When I was at Twitch, Microsoft tried to do a Microsoft YouTube. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:42 James Currier And that's why, that's why Nvidia is trying to get everyone to use CUDA because that's their operating system level that locks people into their software, which is more of a Microsoft. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:19 James Currier And then I would create two or three applications, uh, the way Microsoft did in the nineties, like office or whatever.
7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier
- ▶ 24:48 Will O'Brien Yeah, so I think, um, the first experiment of this was a Microsoft, Microsoft project.
He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18
- ▶ 36:14 Shaan Puri And do you have like your Excel file that basically kind of shows your, your unit costs and your percentages? 3 times in the scene
We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
- ▶ 8:03 Nick Bilton Whereas before we had to build like Excel spreadsheets and databases.
What’s truly going on inside DOGE?
- ▶ 40:13 Shaan Puri I read this story about Bill Gates, and it was a story about how Bill Gates was building Microsoft, and people don't know because Bill Gates is now a philanthropist slash like, you know. 4 times in the scene
The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets
- ▶ 8:41 Shaan Puri Apple and Microsoft invested in Apple when they were big competitors.
- ▶ 12:33 Shaan Puri So I think it was two weeks where he does like, he goes and buys a book because he's like, I don't know anything about how airplanes fly, but he goes and he buys a book and he creates an Excel spreadsheet on one tab was the cost model.
I run a $180M+ company...here's how I'm using AI on a daily basis
- ▶ 43:44 Andrew Wilkinson So all these huge companies like, you know, uh, Amazon and Microsoft and Anthropic and whatever, they all need data centers and they need the data centers to be centralized in one place. 2 times in the scene
The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- ▶ 1:22 Shaan Puri After Google was started there, a company called Danger was started there, sold for five hundred million to Microsoft by the guy who created Android right after that.
- ▶ 46:34 Shaan Puri It's the same way that, you know, Microsoft also invested in Apple and kind of saved Apple from failure at one point in time.
Investing Wisdom from Nassim Taleb, plus ChatGPT Questions That Will Change Your Life
- ▶ 23:54 Sam Parr And you could do your KPIs, which is typically like an Excel spreadsheet, like
- ▶ 25:45 Shaan Puri Yeah, I think the, uh, the CEO of Microsoft, um, I don't know if you heard this story, but I guess when Balmer stepped down and they needed a new CEO, um, and at the time, Microsoft was kind of in a downward, downward to flat. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:53 Shaan Puri Hey, I'm trying to do this in Excel, but I don't know how to do it. 2 times in the scene
The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur
6 College Students Pitch Us Their Startups | MFM Shark Tank
- ▶ 1:17:03 Shaan Puri Do I really believe that you are going to be able to get people off of Outlook, off of Gmail, and onto your service? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:12 Shaan Puri Google, Google's definitely going to be adding AI into this, and so is Superhuman, and so is Microsoft, right?
I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B Company
- ▶ 30:00 Shaan Puri You were like, I'm going to test this idea with an Excel spreadsheet only.
How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 35:26 Sam Parr It was also a cybersecurity cloud company sold to Microsoft for a billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:58 Shaan Puri So, like, you know, OpenAI, ChatGPT, is, like, aligned with Microsoft, and Google's trying to do Gemini and all this stuff, but, like, if Perplexity keeps executing, you know, it's the way that Facebook bought WhatsApp for twenty billion,…
- ▶ 57:58 Shaan Puri This is, um, instead of having to have Microsoft office, but have the software on my computer, have the file on my computer, I can just go to any computer anywhere, go to a doc. 2 times in the scene
Jesse Pujji on Bootstrapping a +$1B Business + Selling To The Ultra Rich
- ▶ 18:47 Shaan Puri Any color coded Excel sheet, we're like, ah, this is great. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:53 Shaan Puri There's a funny tweet that Chamath put out the other day where he was like, Bill Gates, um, you know, if he had just basically held his Microsoft stock would be, I think the richest man in the world or, or, you know, number one or number…
Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
- ▶ 42:31 Shaan Puri Like, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, before they started Microsoft, they started, you know, TrafoData. 2 times in the scene
We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit
3 Startup Ideas: Mouse Jigglers, Employee Monitoring Softwares and Photoshop Copycats
- ▶ 29:42 Shaan Puri I mean, it looks like After Effects and it just says free alternative to editors such as Adobe After Effects, web based, nothing to install works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!
How I Made My First $1M - The Andrew Wilkinson Story
- ▶ 26:05 Andrew Wilkinson Like it's all in one big Excel spreadsheet somewhere and I don't mark it.
Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman
- ▶ 56:05 Shaan Puri We're trying to run like, we're like typing Excel, like how much money are we winning or losing?
3 Things You Need To Outperform 99% Of Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 56:39 Shaan Puri Well, Sam, what's, uh, what's Microsoft's core value? 2 times in the scene
25 Years Of Founder WISDOM In 55 Minutes (ft. Jason Fried)
He Turned A $300/Mo Gardening Side Hustle Into $45 Million/Year | Kevin Espiritu Interview
How To Master Storytelling ft. David Perell
- ▶ 49:15 Shaan Puri So she, um, for anybody who doesn't know, she's basically like an Excel influencer, for lack of a better word. 2 times in the scene
CEOs Pay Him $10,000 Per Appointment
- ▶ 44:46 Shaan Puri My buddy, Sam solely from college one day sent me a PowerPoint deck.
Her Viral Formula Breaks 100 Million Views On YouTube Shorts (ft. Jenny Hoyos)
- ▶ 2:39 Shaan Puri She creates content of all things about Microsoft Excel, how to use it better, but like she's super high energy. 2 times in the scene
3 Anti-Comfort Businesses That Are Making Millions
The Man Who Owns 1% Of ALL Bitcoin
- ▶ 49:22 Shaan Puri And he's like, yeah, this guy Vivek, he's like, you know how Office went from, like, Microsoft Office went from something you down, buy a disk, and you download, and you, like, type in the key, you pay 30 dollars once to, like, this thing…
- ▶ 49:22 Shaan Puri And he's like, yeah, this guy Vivek, he's like, you know how Office went from, like, Microsoft Office went from something you down, buy a disk, and you download, and you, like, type in the key, you pay 30 dollars once to, like, this thing…
- ▶ 49:37 Shaan Puri Like, he was at Microsoft, he, like, created at his desk. 2 times in the scene
It’s The Most Taboo Business Model We’ve Ever Seen
- ▶ 27:43 Shaan Puri Like Miss Excel did this with just teaching people Excel. 2 times in the scene
Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman
- ▶ 53:25 Shaan Puri You take fifty million dollars from me, you hire the best people in the world, and you, you write down that this is your charter, and then you end up a closed source, maximum for-profit company owned by the most valuable company in the… 7 times in the scene
3 Niche Business Ideas We Thought Would Fail… But Actually Crushed It
What Stock Would Warren Buffett Buy If He Started Over In 2024?
How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
- ▶ 21:59 Noah Kagan I don't even know if that was around probably Microsoft paint.
- ▶ 24:58 Shaan Puri Well, I think there's even more revisionist history, which, which is interesting here because then later there's another story that Zuck actually accepted an offer from, I think it was, I think it was Yahoo and, um, there's the Yahoo or… 2 times in the scene
If I Had To Make $1 Billion... Here’s The Business I Would Start
From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527)
- ▶ 6:28 Shaan Puri It shows their ad spend, and it shows it broke it down on Google, Facebook, and even Bing a little bit.
99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 52 Minutes (#525)
3 Business Ideas You Should Start in 2024 (ft. Pomp) (#524)
- ▶ 54:50 Anthony Pompliano They're just going to get an Excel sheet with like, how do I get rich without doing a lot of work and go do those opportunities, right?
My $100M Mistake + 6 Company Exit F**k Ups To Avoid (#522)
How I Bought A Multi-Million Dollar Egg Carton Business For $0 | Sarah Moore Interview
- ▶ 22:51 Sarah Moore So we created a big Excel file, guessed the combinations, and then ran them through something.
This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions (#509)
- ▶ 28:37 Shaan Puri I'm either going to go long Microsoft and short Apple, or I'm going to go long Apple and short Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next (#508)
- ▶ 1:01:13 Shaan Puri And in Silicon Valley, people were like kind of having fun with it a little bit, but it didn't seem like a serious, like he's like, I had like job offers from Microsoft or whatever.
Metaverse IRL, Bollywood Protein Powder & AI Gadgets That Suck (#507)
- ▶ 15:00 Shaan Puri Yeah, one last thing on the Facebook thing, I think, but here's my random prediction, in 10 to 15 years, Facebook is gonna be, Facebook, like, Meta is gonna own the largest work platform, so I think that they're gonna be the, the Zoom, the…
- ▶ 45:04 Shaan Puri Person out there that made some software, sold it to some golf clubs, and what a company like Constellation will do is they're like, perfect, because that software is not going to be like, you know, Microsoft is not going to go compete in…
CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO' (#505)
- ▶ 29:48 Shaan Puri I set sitting in my boxers in Excel, right?
Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504)
- ▶ 28:50 Jesse Itzler So we came back the next week, and we realized we can never sell them in a PowerPoint, which is like what everyone, guy sees a hundred PowerPoints every year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:45 Jesse Itzler He takes the liking to me, but he says, we don't buy PowerPoints or Coca-Cola. 2 times in the scene
Cody Ko On Building A YouTube Empire, Partying With Elon & Stand-Up Comedy (#503)
- ▶ 33:54 Shaan Puri She goes, she finds it for all the different sources, puts it in an Excel sheet, takes a screenshot, text it to me so that when I wake up in the morning, I don't go on Twitter or check my email.
How I Live On $25,000/Month In New York City
- ▶ 12:21 Shaan Puri She goes, she finds them for all the different sources, puts it in an Excel sheet, takes a screenshot, text it to me so that when I wake up in the morning, I don't go on Twitter or check my email.
This $3B Founder Is The Next Elon Musk (#499)
- ▶ 31:19 Shaan Puri She goes, she finds it for all the different sources, puts it in Excel.
Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
- ▶ 1:05:57 Martin Shkreli And the companies that are sort of missing this and messing it up are kind of like too close to the, to sort of reality and, and the day-to-day product management to even see it and really understand it, that people wanted this, you know,…
- ▶ 1:34:16 Martin Shkreli I like Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438)
- ▶ 54:31 Dharmesh Shah I have to kind of catch myself, but, um, and so, 17 years ago I had, and I, this is before HubSpot, um, I had this idea and the idea was, um, everyone was using kind of email and Outlook back then.
- ▶ 54:52 Dharmesh Shah Uh, you know, I just want to be able to do that and type an email up and have her like, oh, I have this file in our shared file server in SharePoint somewhere.
- ▶ 57:53 Dharmesh Shah We went from DOS to Windows, which is we went from a character-based interface to a graphical mouse-based click-and-touch interface.
- ▶ 58:00 Dharmesh Shah That's the thing we built Microsoft on, which lasted for decades.
Facebook's Stock Is Up 43%, Jack Butcher's NFT Makes Millions & More Tech News (#418)
- ▶ 6:03 Shaan Puri He's like, oh, I was at Microsoft.
- ▶ 6:08 Shaan Puri I invented, uh, the, the, you know, Microsoft three 65, like, uh, you know, I was like, we should go to the cloud and make this a subscription and nobody agreed with me.
The Boys React: Tech Layoffs, IG Founder Starts A New Company & More Tech News (#415)
- ▶ 5:48 unnamed speaker That includes 12,000 at Google, 18,000 at Amazon, 11,000 at Meta, 10,000 at Microsoft.
Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
- ▶ 1:42 Shaan Puri You worked at Microsoft, you quit, you decided to start your own company.
The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
- ▶ 1:06:49 Andrew Wilkinson Um, and that it will be, there's going to be an ecosystem of offering similar to AWS and Azure and Google cloud.
- ▶ 1:06:57 Andrew Wilkinson I think it'll be the same thing with GPT three, Google, uh, maybe Microsoft.
BREAKING: Shaan Sells the Milk Road - A Conversation With the Buyers
- ▶ 1:27:42 Mike Wittmeyer He's just like a, if you give him a business and like an Excel sheet and a few weeks to like, look at it, he's going to come back with like, here are the three things that this could be doing that would like to an exit.
From Flipping iPhones To Selling Oculus For $2 Billion To Facebook | Palmer Luckey (#378)
- ▶ 16:04 Palmer Luckey And that's what you're going to need to compete with Google, to compete with Sony, to compete with Microsoft, all of which have seen what you're doing. 5 times in the scene
9 Business Ideas To Profit From The 2022 A.I. Gold Rush (Using Dall-E & GPT3) (#376)
This Guy Went From $0 to Billionaire By Starting A Toy Factory In China (#372)
How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)
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