Microsoft, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
- ▶ 28:33 Sid Sijbrandij They are at AWS, GCP, and Azure, and we can, we expect that will continue to grow.
Adding Outbound Sales & Marketing to a Product-Led Growth Engine Freshworks, Twilio, 1Password, Coda
- ▶ 18:21 Stacy Epstein If you look at, like, the Slack versus Teams sort of fight that went on, and obviously Slack was pretty pure PLG. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:42 Stacy Epstein But Microsoft had the relationships with the CIOs, and people were, companies were wall-to-wall Microsoft, that their product didn't even have to be as good as Slack.
Picking the Perfect Pricing Model that Fits Your App and More with HackerOne's CEO Marten Mickos
- ▶ 5:25 Mårten Mickos That's a pricing model that was impossible for Sun to even consider, and now the rest is history, and everybody is, practically everybody is running on the AWS cloud, some running on Microsoft and Google and a few others, but, but with…
$100 Million ARR Pivot: From Platform Product to Vertical Apps With Treasure Data CEO Kazuki Ohta
- ▶ 13:35 Kazuki Ohta And the biggest threat we had at that time also was, uh, Amazon, Google, Microsoft are trying to commoditize everything from the infrastructure layer.
- ▶ 24:00 Kazuki Ohta Um, after fighting against Amazon, Google, Microsoft, everything feels like it's easier to fight against, right?
- ▶ 30:37 Kazuki Ohta But again, after fighting with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, we feel like, okay, it's, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:44 Kazuki Ohta The same with Windows. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:45 Kazuki Ohta What you're really looking for is you want to buy Excel, PowerPoint, and Word as a killer application on top of Windows, and obviously they have a lot of, um, application built on top, but those are killer apps owned by Microsoft…
- ▶ 31:45 Kazuki Ohta What you're really looking for is you want to buy Excel, PowerPoint, and Word as a killer application on top of Windows, and obviously they have a lot of, um, application built on top, but those are killer apps owned by Microsoft…
- ▶ 31:45 Kazuki Ohta What you're really looking for is you want to buy Excel, PowerPoint, and Word as a killer application on top of Windows, and obviously they have a lot of, um, application built on top, but those are killer apps owned by Microsoft…
- ▶ 38:29 Kazuki Ohta At certain scale, um, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, or GAFA becomes a competitor at some point, right?
Ask Me Anything About Customer Success with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and ChurnZero CEO You Mon Tsang
- ▶ 5:47 Jason Lemkin Microsoft.
The Highs and Lows of Fundraising from Founders That Have Raised $1B w/ Calendly, Coda, LaunchDarkly
- ▶ 12:22 Shishir Mehrotra You know, our category, I think there's only so many blinking cursors that people will pick, and you have to be ahead of that, uh, and we can't, you know, so you have to invest faster, or as fast as the rest of the market is moving on it,…
The Secrets Behind Creating Scalable Products with Box CEO, Aaron Levie and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 6:18 Aaron Levie It was a sort of, uh, you know, the, the Henry Ford, you can have any color as long as it's black, um, and, uh, and like, like, we have one piece of software and, and it's gonna be in our cloud, and this is how you're gonna deploy it, and…
- ▶ 8:53 Aaron Levie I would still posit, like, if you really just think about it in practice, so think about, you know, every time that Amazon or Azure or others have launched these sort of on-prem versions of their clouds, these are all relatively subscale…
Beyond Product-led Growth: 7 Lessons Learned in Product-Led Scaling with Dropbox GM Rachel Wolan
- ▶ 16:52 Rachel Wolan I went and I sat down with, like, 30 customers being like, well, why do you use Dropbox if you also pay for Google, or you also pay for Microsoft, or you also pay for, you know, whatever.
State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 5:18 Byron Deeter And it's really the cloud basket, and we pulled out six names in particular with Microsoft, Twilio, Shopify, Adobe, um, uh, Amazon, and Shop, and, uh, Salesforce as the six new guard flag carriers,
- ▶ 22:50 Elliott Robinson Azure, GCP, AWS.
- ▶ 33:33 Elliott Robinson While many of us spend hours and hours, maybe even more hours in the pandemic, working out of some of the traditional and legacy office suites, like the Microsoft Office Suite, or maybe even the G Suite, what we saw is the emergence and…
Kevin Dorsey, VP Sales at PatientPop Shares Cutting Edge Techniques for Building Trust in Sales
- ▶ 12:37 Kevin Dorsey I, I think I just saw a post the other day, like how many followers Bezos has versus Amazon, Elon versus Tesla, Gates versus Microsoft.
The State of the Cloud: 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 9:01 Byron Deeter Uh, it's the CEO of Microsoft himself, Satya Nidala, and I think he framed it really well, which is this idea, um, that really the two years of this acceleration and transformation
- ▶ 12:40 Byron Deeter However, most notable on this chart is the rise of Azure and the Microsoft product and continued market share gains. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:40 Byron Deeter However, most notable on this chart is the rise of Azure and the Microsoft product and continued market share gains. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:21 Byron Deeter And this is comprised of Microsoft, Twilio, Salesforce, Amazon, Adobe, and Shopify.
- ▶ 44:08 Elliott Robinson So, you know, if you map against kind of historical office software, particularly Microsoft, there's a whole new class of startups that are taking things like emails, calendaring, event-driven, um, solutions, and they're just unbundling…
Brian Halligan, CEO and Co-Founder at HubSpot: The Secrets to $1B ARR ... And Beyond!
- ▶ 25:03 Brian Halligan It's, you know, the company who's fantastic at this is Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:21 Brian Halligan The freemium product, like we think of ourselves, we want to, the thing that's different about HubSpot than Salesforce or Adobe or, uh, Microsoft or Oracle, all the other CRMs.
How to Build a Great Intern Program from Scratch | @shopify VP of Engineering Farhan Thawar
- ▶ 1:04 Farhan Thawar Um, so small, small companies like started my own company, um, as well as worked at some large ones like Microsoft.
- ▶ 7:44 Farhan Thawar oh, you must have worked at Microsoft or Google or Facebook or McKinsey because of the way that they work, and that comes from career imprinting.
- ▶ 10:27 Farhan Thawar They shouldn't have, I know, I think when I was at Microsoft, maybe they changed it.
- ▶ 22:34 Farhan Thawar When I was at Microsoft, unfortunately, we had a group there that was 30 people.
How to Market at Mass Scale | Harry Stebbings, The Twenty Minute VC & Whereby CMO Ryan Bonnici
- ▶ 0:58 Ryan Bonnici And, um, I met an executive on, in first class when I was traveling, um, working and they told me that Microsoft was hiring and that was over a decade ago. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:33 Ryan Bonnici These are things that companies like Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, they're so far from, like, the humanity of their users, and I think most people know that, um, which is ironic that we are on this Zoom right now, and this, like, very dark…
How To Collaborate, Manage & Work With Developers With Jeff Lawson, CEO Twilio
- ▶ 31:21 Jeff Lawson I'm from Detroit originally, so like the auto, you know, you think about the auto industry and the mature supply chain they have there, and, you know, 20 years ago, the software industry was a very small number of companies, and you think…
Lessons in Scaling a Low Code Platform with Airtable | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 18:21 Howie Liu Microsoft has a product called list that is, uh, in many ways, like a direct, you know, kind of attempt to replicate air table.
- ▶ 18:21 Howie Liu Microsoft has a product called list that is, uh, in many ways, like a direct, you know, kind of attempt to replicate air table. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:37 Howie Liu Um, but it was, you know, I, I, um, you know, uh, we had just seen Microsoft launch their competitor and, and the kind of advice basically was, you know, that we tend to overestimate competition in the short term.
- ▶ 26:42 Howie Liu Um, but we have, it now feels like we have like a pretty like sizable comparatively amount of resources to, to like certainly early days.