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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Is AI the Only Thing in SaaS that Anyone Cares About Anymore? AMA Part 1 w/ SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 7:37 Jason Lemkin I don't know if anyone will have a ten billion dollar outcome, but people have been writing DOS programs and windows programs for years.
The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
- ▶ 4:18 Tomasz Tunguz You look at the total number of customers that are starting to use Microsoft's OpenAI technology has three X, I think, in the last quarter in the reporting.
- ▶ 17:45 Tomasz Tunguz I mean, you think about Microsoft Office, three hundred thirty million paying subs, whatever, let's say a third of them use Excel.
- ▶ 17:45 Tomasz Tunguz I mean, you think about Microsoft Office, three hundred thirty million paying subs, whatever, let's say a third of them use Excel.
Hitting Hypergrowth with Amplitude's CEO, Spenser Skates: Take Your SaaS Company from $25M to $100M+
- ▶ 19:40 Spenser Skates They'll hire some big company executive from Microsoft or Google or Amazon that's not used to operating like a scrappy startup.
The 5 Ways AI Will Transform Creativity with Adobe CSO & EVP Scott Belsky
- ▶ 3:45 Scott Belsky I believe that just like productivity tools like Excel and word and PowerPoint have been deployed.
- ▶ 3:45 Scott Belsky I believe that just like productivity tools like Excel and word and PowerPoint have been deployed.
- ▶ 3:45 Scott Belsky I believe that just like productivity tools like Excel and word and PowerPoint have been deployed.
Secrets to Scaling and Growth in an Unpredictable Market with monday.com's Co-founder and Co-CEO
- ▶ 19:35 Jason Lemkin Um, maybe a handful like Microsoft have grown faster, but for B to B where you, it's subscription revenue, and you do need to do, I'm missing a little bit of the story about why Monday grew quite as fast as it did.
2024 SaaS Landscape: Why 2024 Could be Pretty Darn Good for SaaS IPOs with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 14:54 Jason Lemkin And in the old days, the really epic software companies, the Adobe's, the Microsoft's, could, could approach a million
Building a Global SaaS Empire | Freshworks Founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham on His Biggest Bets
- ▶ 4:57 Girish Mathrubootham No equity, uh, no safe note, free cash from Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
"The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With Dave Kellogg, ex-CEO Host Analytics": SaaStr Classic
- ▶ 22:07 Dave Kellogg It's to make more money than my roommate at MIT, right, or it's death to the evil emperor of Microsoft, or it's like, you may find some underlying mission that you're like, oh, I just thought we were trying to build a hundred million…
The Most Important SaaS Metrics with Monday.com Co-Founders and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 50:36 Jason Lemkin I'm sure it's true at Microsoft too, right?
- ▶ 58:29 Eran Zinman You know what they say, you know, an Excel sheet can absorb anything. 2 times in the scene
From Uncertainty to +$400M: How Braze Found Opportunity in Headwinds with Braze Co-Founder & CEO
- ▶ 9:50 Bill Magnuson We, ah, Microsoft bought and divested Nokia in just three years.
Rippling CEO Parker Conrad's Theory of the Compound Startup: Disrupting How We Think About Software
- ▶ 6:52 Parker Conrad Um, you see this, like, Microsoft is the classic example of a competitor that uses this to great effect. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:59 Parker Conrad Um, that's why Slack is owned by Salesforce now, because, like, Teams is free and the Microsoft bundle.
From 2 Weeks of Runway to $1B Acquisition: The Founder Playbook with Loom's CEO and Co-Founder
- ▶ 2:19 Joe Thomas We were still using Outlook for email, and then it was Slack in the last kind of like six to 12 months before we started Loom, but video was truly nowhere to be found, and so Mary Meeker, she puts out an annual internet trends report, and…
Scaling to $100M ARR: The Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid From LaunchDarkly Co-Founder Edith Harbaugh
- ▶ 3:00 Edith Harbaugh You know, you'd be at Microsoft.
- ▶ 4:01 Edith Harbaugh They don't really like PowerPoint.
- ▶ 15:32 Edith Harbaugh Like, I like Excel.
- ▶ 27:13 Edith Harbaugh Um, the one success we did have out of it was we sent a cold email to somebody at Microsoft, and he said, this is the greatest thing I've ever heard of. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:21 Edith Harbaugh Ah, can you build a connector to Visual Studio, and can you come talk at Microsoft Build? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:50 Edith Harbaugh You know, at the time we were an eight-person company, so all the engineers, like, came and ran both with me.
Why The Era of Efficient Growth is Now: The State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 3:27 Jason Lemkin It was so crazy that LinkedIn, even though they were profitable in public, panicked and sold to Microsoft.
Scaling a B2B Leader from $0 to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath's CEO and Founder Daniel Dines
- ▶ 2:35 Daniel Dines Then I got employed by Microsoft, so I spent five years in Seattle, which was a 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:14 Daniel Dines So you can, you can click on every word on the Windows desktop, and then we can extract the word, and then show a pop-up, like search, or 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:27 Daniel Dines I never met a customer in my life in Microsoft.
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Principles that Drove Wiz’s $0 to The First $100m ARR | Wiz CRO Colin Jones
- ▶ 24:00 Colin Jones Like, as, as practitioners prior to, like, they build Adalom, they sell it to Microsoft, they take a set of responsibilities at Microsoft Security, and they were practitioners who were experiencing this challenge that we solve for every…
- ▶ 24:00 Colin Jones Like, as, as practitioners prior to, like, they build Adalom, they sell it to Microsoft, they take a set of responsibilities at Microsoft Security, and they were practitioners who were experiencing this challenge that we solve for every…
Top 10 Mistakes Founders Make with Series A with Black Mangroves, Square Peg, Vertex, and GGV
Being a Rebel to Build a Movement: Non-Traditional Approaches to Scale | DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder
- ▶ 2:25 Joshua Browder Uh, one day I was like, uh, spending four hours in Microsoft Word, copying and pasting letters to send to the different, like San Mateo County, San Francisco County, all of these different authorities.
What's Holding Up Buyers?: Top Obstacles to Making Software Decisions with G2's VP - Asia Pacific
- ▶ 18:30 Chris Perrine Is it the AWSs and the Microsofts of the world?
The Playbook to Blending Product-Led Growth with Sales-Led Growth: Amplitude VP of APJ Mark Velthuis
- ▶ 12:30 Mark Velthuis It's where I, myself, was a Microsoft Teams user.
- ▶ 28:20 Mark Velthuis It needed a lot of back-end integration into existing Excel spreadsheets, existing finance stacks, um,
SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 11:39 Jason Lemkin AMD, Microsoft, Google, who am I missing?
- ▶ 32:09 Jason Lemkin Now, when you come out of a Microsoft or an Adobe where I briefly worked or others, there's a lot of reasons they move away from gap financials, ok?
How The Biggest Product-Led Enterprise Company In The World Did It | Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch
- ▶ 32:02 Cameron Deatsch Um, but if you look at every big software company today, the biggest companies in the world, Microsoft, SAP, or they're all multi-product company, organic or inorganic, you know, like you have to, like, you're going to be one of the…
Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
- ▶ 0:28 Gabe Monroy Prior to DigitalOcean, where I've been having a lot of fun, I was responsible for most of the developer-facing services in Microsoft Azure. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:46 Gabe Monroy But I actually came to Microsoft through an acquisition of a startup I founded called Deus. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:23 Gabe Monroy Uh, later we spun that out, and it was acquired again by Microsoft, and that's how I ended up getting into Microsoft to, to bootstrap the container services business. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:23 Gabe Monroy But to put this into more focus, I want to tell you another story, which is the story of Azure Container Service, which it just turns out is sort of the next thing I did right after I joined Microsoft.
- ▶ 11:24 Gabe Monroy Uh, I was able to set up the equivalent solution myself on Azure, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:06 Gabe Monroy The first thing I would say is, if I could go back and do it all over again, to startups, you know, all the engineering work and product work that I did, you know, while at Azure,
- ▶ 23:15 Gabe Monroy And so, as we worked on, you know, adapting a solution to that, we came out with Azure's Kubernetes service, which was directly derived from the product and learnings that we had through Azure Container Service, and Azure Kubernetes…
- ▶ 24:32 Gabe Monroy Where you leverage technology like design sprints, you know, I, I don't know how many of you are familiar with the concept of design sprints that come out of Google, or the concept of a customer driven playbook that has come out of…
What Venture Looks Like In 2023 | SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin + 20VC Host Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:42 Jason Lemkin You are probably not joining Microsoft or Adobe or whatever, and those took forever.
- ▶ 31:03 Jason Lemkin You had to be one of these people that's like, I just can't fit in at an Adobe or, or, or, or Microsoft or whatever.