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17 statements across 11 episodes · 4 bullish · 8 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Mar 26, 2021 by Hilton Gisenau · said 242 times in 60 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Sean Weisbrot (68), Hilton Gisenau (55), Martin Tobias (12), Dan Bilkowski (9), Ricardo Michel Reyes (7), Darian Parrish (7), Monica Dugal (5), David Windley (5)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 44 mentions in 17 episodes 3 per episode
- Value Lives in the Mind of the Customer, Not in Your Product
- He Built a Mutual Fund Out of 200 Recruiting Clients and Hit $50M
- She Uses BITES Monthly and Her Clients Never Fear a Bad Quarter
- What $13M in Domain Sales Taught Him About Honest Dealmaking
- Why Half of Them Have No Mortgage and Still Win
- AI Can Write Code, But It Can't Do Architecture
- Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Clean Data Is Your Real AI Strategy
- He Manages $100M in Ad Spend With a Trick Nobody Tried Yet
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
- He Raised His Price 3x and Got More Leads Than the Cheaper Version
- Her 14-Year-Old Was Pitching Clients at a Conference Without Her
- Finland Aims for an 8, Not a 10, and That Changes Everything
- Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
- She Hit $1M and Tried to Maintain It. Her Soul Would Not Allow It.
- Backing Up to an Earlier Solution Changed Everything for Sean
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 33 mentions in 12 episodes 3 per episode
- 550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
- They Thought the Equipment Vendor Could Handle the Cash Too
- They Gave Her Responsibility Without Authority - She Saw It Coming
- Passion Is the Fuel, Not the Emotion: One Founder's Case for a New Industry
- People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
- The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
- Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
- He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 29 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- 35% Calmer in 20 Minutes: Why VR Beat the Top Meditation App
- Infinite Money Made Her Client Worse at Shipping Than Startups
- 12 Candidates Refused the Job Because of One Person on Their Team
- He Closed the Paper the Same Month He Buried His Wife
- Builders Are the Ticket Before Interoperability Ever Gets Solved
- A Nonprofit Is Just a Business That Doesn't Turn a Profit
- Someone Moved the Net Every Time He Scored
- He Wrote the Book on Executive Loneliness After Losing a Friend to Suicide
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 105 mentions in 7 episodes 15 per episode
- Microsoft Launched a Free App That Competes With Ours
- The Bezos Yawn Factor: Why No-Code Will Feel Mundane Soon
- 30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead
- The Sunshine Rule: The Hidden Test Every CEO Should Run on Their Data
- Codifying Empathy: What 1 Million Slides Taught This Founder
- The 90-Second Story That Gets Investors Curious Enough to Ask
- Why a Gorgeous Website Can't Convert a Soul
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 15 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- The Secret Weapon That Quietly Beats Every Competitor
- The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know
- Why 'Life Has No Purpose' Is the Most Freeing Thing You Can Believe
- The Hidden Cost of 9-9-6: Why Bay Area Engineers Are Spoiled
- The 'No Blueprint' Truth Behind Selling Three Brands
- The Oxygen Mask Rule Every CEO Forgets
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Microsoft, oldest first
Mar 26, 2021 negative
Gisenau: ChitChattr faced Teams rejections from conflicting internal Microsoft requirements
“We had, for example, portions of our app get rejected because of requirements that were coming through from the main team's engineering team to the store validation team that would like literally just in conflict with one another.”
Mar 26, 2021 negative
Gisenau: Microsoft Partner Center lacks usability and consistency compared to customer software
“The software that Microsoft has that are facing partners as opposed to facing customers is, is, you know, not, not necessarily the same level of usability or consistency or bug freeness or anything like that. So the partner center itself is, is a bit of a chal…”
Mar 26, 2021 negative
Gisenau: Microsoft rejected a functional Teams app for lacking business value
“We've got a few apps that we've built. One of them never made it to the actual store itself. We went through the entire process, the verifications, there were a few bugs that were raised. We addressed all of those things, et cetera. And at the end of it, Micro…”
Mar 26, 2021 negative
Gisenau: Microsoft Teams review team responsiveness slowed significantly as store hit 800+ apps
“When there are 800 and something apps, each of those potentially submitting new versions, and obviously a ton of other apps going through as well. So they've slowed down quite a bit in terms of the responsiveness, shall we say.”
Mar 26, 2021 negative
Mar 26, 2021 negative
Gisenau: Teams users mistakenly expect marketplace apps to be free
“One of the things we've found, for example, is that users are quite surprised that there's a pricing involved for the purchase of our apps. We've had a number of customers or a number of feedback items, shall we say, from users who've been quite surprised that…”
Mar 26, 2021 positive
Gisenau: Microsoft Teams takes zero cut of app revenue
“On the Microsoft side, there's no charging model. There's no fee model at all. On the one hand, that's kind of a little bit of a negative. There's no charging model built in, so there's no model natively in the platform to charge customers. The positive of tha…”
Jun 22, 2021
Jul 26, 2022 positive
Druckman: Bill Gates kept a year of payroll to protect early hires
“In the beginning, Bill Gates hired his friends. That was who worked for him pretty much his friends. And he would think about the prospect of not being able to make payroll to his friends who had given up other careers to come and work there. So he said he mad…”
Dec 13, 2022
Spohr: Early Microsoft technical writing earnings built seven-figure portfolio
“I was a lucky English major who got to be a technical writer at Microsoft and very early on, like we're talking way back in the Reagan administration, frankly. And that was good for me. It wasn't as good as the developers I know who made piles of money at the …”
Jun 14, 2023 neutral
Schmidt: Most HR Tech Companies Lack Resources to Train Custom AI
“And the truth is that most companies who are in the HR tech space don't have the resources that someone like open AI has to train their content. And to train the AI. They just seem to, they don't have a billion dollars from Microsoft.”
Aug 15, 2023 bullish
Sep 19, 2023 bearish
Paul Allen Warned CertiCom He Was Liquidating Pre-Crash Tech Holdings
“We should have known one of our biggest investors was Paul Allen.
In CertiCom.
He's the co-founder of Microsoft.
And we knew when he pulled his money out
and we knew he was, he told us he's going to pull it out.
He's, and he was going to pull out all the money…”
Oct 24, 2023 neutral
Chalana: Future AI will combine big tech and open-source models
“I think it'll be a combination of both, just like it is today. It's, there's some companies who created these I mean, open AI created this with a lot of investment from Microsoft and all that stuff. But then Pretty soon, right after that, we had Facebook open …”
Oct 21, 2025 negative
Mar 3, 2026 bullish
Wong: Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft will clone OpenClaw in ten months
“My prediction is this within n number of months, less than 10 Entropic, now, now Open Claw become part of OpenAI, so that becomes the OpenAI part of this game. Entropic, Google, Microsoft, Everybody will have their equivalent of open, open call framework.”
Sep 8, 2026 neutral
Startups must pitch reporters two to three weeks before major announcements
“If you're going to make a large announcement, unless you are Microsoft or Apple or Meta or something, you're not going to get same day or next day coverage. You're going to need to reach out to reporters two to three weeks in advance to give them a heads up, t…”