Microsoft, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
- ▶ 30:05 unnamed speaker I went to a little company called Microsoft.
Surviving a VC Holiday Party (ep22)
- ▶ 18:16 John Coogan We should make paper napkins that have full Excel sheets printed on them.
- ▶ 59:26 John Coogan Press conference for, no, press conference for Microsoft, and he said that they're no longer GPU, uh, poor, like GPU bound.
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 1:02:34 John Coogan So let's start with Wasteland Capital, who says, absolutely insane amount of work in this world is going to format PowerPoints.
- ▶ 1:51:37 John Coogan Not a lot of Excel over there.
- ▶ 1:51:38 John Coogan A lot of Microsoft Word.
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 49:58 unnamed speaker You know, 10% of that round, and, and they got preferred, and then Microsoft came in and did something, or Google came in and did something, but 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:27 unnamed speaker Or, uh, uh, 100% of software development, but if you look at the actual business, it's more like every software engineer has a backlog that's a mile long and has years and years of work they need to do, and so the example I heard was like,…
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 30:13 Jordi Hays Um, and you're not going to be sort of bashed in, in Slack or Teams or whatever they use.
- ▶ 1:24:51 John Coogan Pretty soon, XL comes out, you're building models, and you're back in the grind.
- ▶ 1:49:41 Jordi Hays And, and can you believe that it was only, was it a year ago that the Microsoft round happened and Microsoft bought, like. 2 times in the scene
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 29:44 John Coogan Um, but Charlie Songhurst, the former chief strategy officer at Microsoft has a funny quote here.
- ▶ 2:45:04 John Coogan You're not going to be like Slack getting clipped by teams. 2 times in the scene
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 1:11:30 unnamed speaker ChatGPG does more deals, gets in their, their hooks in Apple, gets their hooks in Microsoft.
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 1:04:55 John Coogan This is what, uh, I think Microsoft does.
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 1:44:39 John Coogan But this is the first one that outputs all the analysis natively in Excel files that analysts slash principals can understand and modify from formulas up. 3 times in the scene
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 1:27:37 Jordi Hays So you remember when, when we dropped, uh, Excel and your, your Shopify notifications, like you couldn't use your phone for a day because it was nonstop.
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 35:12 John Coogan And they didn't do Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:47:46 Jordi Hays The key is to figure out a way to find that early love for video games that many of us had and apply it to Excel, right?
Fact-Checking The Information (ep10)
- ▶ 1:14:56 Jordi Hays Like, when we first, when we talked about Excel, we knew from the very first conversation, which was not even a planned conversation, we just started riffing on it, and we were like, yeah, this is, like, so obvious, like, this is gonna be…
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 2:05:18 John Coogan The question I have about this is, like, should we be putting this on the government, or should we be putting this on fucking Microsoft? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:40:27 John Coogan The Salesforce, um, or I guess Microsoft, really.
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 1:58:03 John Coogan What I think it'll be is, like, you'll have, like, a ton of spreadsheets and Word documents sitting there to, like, inventory, like, the meal kits in some base, and you'll be able to just, like, type into the LLM, like, when I, when will I…
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 48:53 John Coogan One person said, this is like, uh, going and hiring a high school baseball coach to be the CEO of Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:06 John Coogan I think they were going to do like the Bing ad network, which obviously is very robust, has great matching algorithms and lots of liquidity.
- ▶ 1:32:23 John Coogan Uh, let's go to Vittorio. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:39 John Coogan And I mean, I think the answer is like normies, like everyone who uses Outlook in just a normal job, they show up and the computer's just there, and they're not on some slick MacBook working from a coffee shop.
- ▶ 2:31:40 Jordi Hays Caffeine connoisseur, Excel enthusiast.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 37:56 John Coogan We live in a world where even mainstream browsers, Safari and Edge, have sidebar tabs, collections, synced tabs, pin tabs.
- ▶ 1:13:53 John Coogan Um, and she, and she was like the, the, you know, the comms person on the Activision, Blizzard, uh, Microsoft deal.
- ▶ 2:00:24 John Coogan And the average tech person, like, only understands the supply chain, like, maybe in chips, in the sense that they know that, like, you know, OpenAI is partnered with Microsoft, who is a hyperscaler, who builds a data center that buys…
- ▶ 2:18:55 John Coogan Has released its first integration with Excel and PowerPoint, an important first step to unlock synergies for Microsoft's sixty nine billion dollar acquisition of Activision Blizzard. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:18:55 John Coogan Has released its first integration with Excel and PowerPoint, an important first step to unlock synergies for Microsoft's sixty nine billion dollar acquisition of Activision Blizzard. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:18:55 John Coogan Has released its first integration with Excel and PowerPoint, an important first step to unlock synergies for Microsoft's sixty nine billion dollar acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- ▶ 24:40 John Coogan and then you can, and I think Microsoft might have a feature for this too, where you can say like, okay, I think like two weeks ago,
Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
- ▶ 8:25 Jordi Hays Great, you know, men and great women, great people need to be on, uh, it's sort of your duty to be on some selection of stimulants, whether it's Volta, Excel, um, you know, a nice cup of coffee, um, and some of the harder stuff, uh, if…
- ▶ 12:20 John Coogan Uh, the, the Microsoft HoloLens did, and that one company that didn't do very well, Meta.
- ▶ 18:45 Jordi Hays Ripping a volt up, putting in an Excel, and then putting on aviator versions of the Orion glasses, and just locking in to a day at work like this, like, um, and you're just at work, you're just firing on all cylinders, typing on a…
- ▶ 32:12 Jordi Hays The original Excel.
Venture Capital Just Changed Forever (ep1)
- ▶ 11:42 unnamed speaker Podcast bros, people that can navigate Excel without, you know, their mouse, you know, venture capitalists after that.
- ▶ 23:22 unnamed speaker Like in Excel where- Chaos is a ladder.
- ▶ 40:30 unnamed speaker Either a round is a vibe round, or an Excel round. 4 times in the scene