Microsoft, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Why OpenAI Doesn't Pay Sales Commission (And Why It Works) with OpenAI GTM Leader Maggie Hott
- ▶ 9:23 Maggie Hott Because if you are a creator, you better bet if you're a good creator, there's going to be competition, people will come after you, and incumbents like Microsoft and Google will also probably go copy you.
- ▶ 25:25 Harry Stebbings And so, and so, sorry, incumbent is Microsoft, it is Google? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:30 Maggie Hott Yep, basically, and same thing with, you know, with Slack, Microsoft Teams flip on a switch, and today, you know, I helped to oversee our large enterprise business, majority of them are on Teams. 3 times in the scene
AI and the Death of the 2021 Sales Playbook with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 30:35 Jason Lemkin Cause everyone, Microsoft lovable replet was all saying, just tell us in, we tell us in a sentence. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:20 Jason Lemkin I know I'm really dating myself, but for fun, when we launched EchoSign, DocuSign, which is like an eighteen billion dollar company today, it only worked in Windows, and only was partially web-based.
How We Use 20+ AI Agents for Marketing & Go-to-Market with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
- ▶ 16:43 Jason Lemkin I was at the other day at an event with the CEO of a public SAS company saying, ah, gamma, it's just PowerPoint
Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 6:12 Brett Queener And I built a custom database on the old people in the room, like Access, Visual Basic, and Fox Pro, where I built a
- ▶ 22:20 Brett Queener Like it sits in some deck and some PowerPoint deck that maybe somebody put in like seismic that Noah can go fine, but.
Is The Classic GTM Playbook Really Dead? with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 21:21 Jason Lemkin I didn't totally get it, but it's not just a better PowerPoint or Google Slides or Canva.
The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 3:15 Jason Lemkin Microsoft is saying it.
- ▶ 18:03 Jason Lemkin That's on Microsoft's website.
- ▶ 49:45 Jason Lemkin But where the marketing from Microsoft on down is the most misleading is the time.
From PLG to Enterprise to SMB: Insights from Calendly's CEO Tope Awotona
- ▶ 16:37 unnamed speaker Cause I, I see with like zoom, there's less and less zoom kind of now it's all like teams and Google meet as those integrate platforms.
Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next
- ▶ 9:49 Jason Lemkin When I was briefly a VP at Adobe, I had to install SAP locally in my windows.
SaaS + AI: It’s Time to Move Much Faster with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 18:09 Jason Lemkin I don't think 20 to 40% of our teams want to change, and we're gonna see, people are like shocked that Microsoft did a three percent layoff this week.
AI, M&A, and the Future of SaaS: Lessons from Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, Co-Founder and Chair
- ▶ 7:46 Jason Lemkin Is there, and just, is there in the deep enterprise, is Teams really even a competitor?
- ▶ 7:55 Marc Benioff You can see the horrible things that Microsoft did to Slack before we bought it. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:37 Marc Benioff The future of OpenAI and the word Microsoft and Azure and Copilot weren't on the stack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:37 Marc Benioff The future of OpenAI and the word Microsoft and Azure and Copilot weren't on the stack.
The Top 10 Customer Success Metrics Investors Care About in 2025 with Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta
- ▶ 11:46 Nick Mehta This is a screenshot from Gainsight, but you could do this in Excel or whatever.
Going Long: How Procore’s Founder Tooey Courtemanche Built a Billon-Dollar SaaS Empire Over 23 Years
- ▶ 14:44 Tooey Courtemanche So what happens is when somebody adopts Procore, there's some pride that they're bringing a technology platform into a underdeveloped company, right?
- ▶ 38:16 Tooey Courtemanche Microsoft's gonna spend eighty billion dollars on data centers.
From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship
- ▶ 21:50 Ron Gabrisko And when we looked at different business models, first of all, like that's how most of the cloud call AWS, Google, Microsoft.
The Future of AI in B2B SaaS: Insights from Synthesia and Theory Ventures. Hosted by Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 5:12 Victor Riparbelli But everything is put into this Canva PowerPoint style flow, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:34 Victor Riparbelli But everything is co-pilot, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:49 Victor Riparbelli I think the way to think about Sulthesia right now is PowerPoint two point zero, right? 2 times in the scene
Going Multi-Product in the Age of AI with CPOs of Webflow, Rubrik, Zoom, and ProductBoard
- ▶ 20:16 Mahesh Ram And then we have the work ones with AI companion from Zoom or Copilot or whatever.
HubSpot Co-Founder Brian Halligan on How to Hire Great VPs and How M&A Really Works
- ▶ 4:43 Brian Halligan The other hack that helped us is we just don't hire anyone from Google or Microsoft or a giant company that it's like a different level of abstraction from where we're at. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:29 Jason Lemkin So what was crazy was you could only hire from Intuit, Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:02 Brian Halligan And they get all the context, they bleed orange, like it's, and if you look at Apple and Microsoft, like there's a lot of that.