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Getting Laid Off Led Him to Buy the Company That Hired Him
- ▶ 15:26 Clayton Critchard 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. 2 times in the scene
Why Half of Them Have No Mortgage and Still Win
- ▶ 23:09 Tad Fallows Public equity means that you own a share of a public company like Apple or like Microsoft, whereas private equity is you own a share of a private company, so you can't go to the New York Stocks Exchange and actually buy and sell that.
- ▶ 25:54 Tad Fallows So now they have a huge amount of any of the names you think of Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Nvidia, et cetera, where that was most of their compensation is now they have the stock that represents too much of their portfolio. 2 times in the scene
Over Capacity Built the Internet. Vijay Says AI Is Next
- ▶ 27:01 Vijay Rajendran So you're not gonna have, you know, a collapse in, uh, in, in, you know, Microsoft one day.
Vibecoding is a Ticking Time Bomb (Coaching Session)
- ▶ 30:54 unnamed speaker In a way you can say, and then making them just like, see if, um, like the user test, you know, like putting in different examples and seeing if it is, uh, taking, uh, if it is giving the right result or like it is not, it is, it has some…
He Built a Mutual Fund Out of 200 Recruiting Clients and Hit $50M
- ▶ 6:50 David Windley Um, all my tech companies that I worked for, we hired internal staff, even at executive recruiting, because it was just a more efficient, better model, and so the idea was, well, why don't we do what, you know, I was at Microsoft, Yahoo,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:51 David Windley You're working at Microsoft, Yahoo, whatever. 3 times in the scene
He Manages $100M in Ad Spend With a Trick Nobody Tried Yet
- ▶ 23:40 Seva Ustinov Facebook, Google, Bing, TikTok, Reddit, Twitter, influencers, affiliates, SEO, and so on with details up to ad sets and creatives.
- ▶ 37:56 Seva Ustinov Like this is like the future of work, similar to how we, all of us learned to use spreadsheets and docs and PowerPoint, and then to Google and then chat GPT.
300 Enterprises, 30 Countries, and He Still Would Not Discuss the Exit
- ▶ 4:17 Sean Weisbrot You look at Oracle, you look at Microsoft, you look at Apple, you know, Facebook, et cetera, Meta.
Value Lives in the Mind of the Customer, Not in Your Product
- ▶ 3:39 Dan Bilkowski Their pricing models look very much like other infrastructure as a service companies like your AWS computer, Azure, etc.
- ▶ 26:32 Dan Bilkowski I think, uh, Satya Nutella at, um, uh, Microsoft made a very, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 Dan Bilkowski Maybe not the best in retrospect, but when they came out with their co-pilot for Office three 65, I think for Office three 65, which is Word and Docs and PowerPoint, et cetera, I think it's about 10 dollars per user per month.
- ▶ 26:41 Dan Bilkowski Maybe not the best in retrospect, but when they came out with their co-pilot for Office three 65, I think for Office three 65, which is Word and Docs and PowerPoint, et cetera, I think it's about 10 dollars per user per month. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 Dan Bilkowski Maybe not the best in retrospect, but when they came out with their co-pilot for Office three 65, I think for Office three 65, which is Word and Docs and PowerPoint, et cetera, I think it's about 10 dollars per user per month.
- ▶ 26:41 Dan Bilkowski Maybe not the best in retrospect, but when they came out with their co-pilot for Office three 65, I think for Office three 65, which is Word and Docs and PowerPoint, et cetera, I think it's about 10 dollars per user per month.
Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't
- ▶ 29:44 Sean Weisbrot Microsoft Word on my computer.
What $13M in Domain Sales Taught Him About Honest Dealmaking
- ▶ 5:32 unnamed speaker So for example, Microsoft owns about 60,000 domain names that they've acquired over the years for different projects, uh, buying different companies that own domains. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:55 unnamed speaker And, you know, I think that people need to understand that sometimes, again, it's a Microsoft situation or a person that invested a lot of money to build something.
30,000 Units a Year, 17 Competitors: How Neil Finds Products With Amazon's Own Data
He Named His Agents and Gave One a Team of Five
- ▶ 30:05 Jim Weldon But there's some smart people out there like Benioff and Allison and Satya at Microsoft and, you know, Sanjay at Google.
She Managed $6B Across 220 Countries - Then Knocked on Old Bosses' Doors
- ▶ 24:25 Alexandra Gonzalez There is a Copilot. 2 times in the scene
She Uses BITES Monthly and Her Clients Never Fear a Bad Quarter
- ▶ 5:54 Monica Dugal I know that, uh, before I was talking to you about like Microsoft, like these guys, they have a lot of cash and they were one of the only companies that did not lose their AAA rating. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:27 Monica Dugal And that one's a really, really great one, because if you think about it, I, I want to go back to, I'm going to use Microsoft as my case study, because I, that's the one that if I could share something with people and you guys can, can run…
Picking the Hardest Business Model on Earth Has a Backdoor Exit
- ▶ 22:47 Saleem Renoui It depends on how much time you have as an operator or who you have on your team, but there's many tools that pull data from different sources, puts it in an Excel sheet, organizes it and gives you dashboards.
AI Can Write Code, But It Can't Do Architecture
- ▶ 5:31 Matt Struppelhoff Microsoft front page was an early iteration of what you see is what you get out of there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:32 Matt Struppelhoff We're using a lot of proven AI solutions like Microsoft co-pilot.
75% of Sales Is Framework, 25% Is Human, and AI Knows It
- ▶ 18:01 Ken Lundin I've never had a good experience trying to get ChatGPT to help me on some sort of Google Sheet or Excel workbook.
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Clean Data Is Your Real AI Strategy
- ▶ 2:38 John Golden You know, track things on an Excel sheet, and that's something that can come later.
- ▶ 12:02 John Golden We always admired the Excel wizards, right? 2 times in the scene
She Hit $1M and Tried to Maintain It. Her Soul Would Not Allow It.
- ▶ 46:57 Sean Weisbrot If you want to get more customers, he literally like nobody had taught him this and he'd gone to an accelerator with like a Microsoft sponsored accelerator and in France, and nobody taught him like how to do marketing for his company…
He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
- ▶ 35:03 Donald Booth There's, um, better ways, you know, PowerPoints are so, 1990, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:25 Sean Weisbrot Microsoft had their own kind of augmented reality headset that was meant for, like, enterprise use.
Backing Up to an Earlier Solution Changed Everything for Sean
- ▶ 47:07 Sean Weisbrot Yeah, no, I'm like, I have a, an Excel spreadsheet that I manage all of this.
Her 14-Year-Old Was Pitching Clients at a Conference Without Her
- ▶ 15:01 Brittany Fairweather I mean, I remember learning Excel in high school, and they don't even teach that stuff anymore. 2 times in the scene
Finland Aims for an 8, Not a 10, and That Changes Everything
- ▶ 0:23 Juha Berkal When you look at the companies over there, Google's and Microsoft's and they have Facebook's
- ▶ 26:27 Juha Berkal When you look at the companies over there, Google's and Microsoft's and they have Facebook's, they have created amazing platforms, uh, which Europeans, we are so far, you know, behind.
Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
- ▶ 39:06 Sean Weisbrot The thing is, my brother taught me how to use Excel like, 20 years ago. 2 times in the scene
He Raised His Price 3x and Got More Leads Than the Cheaper Version
- ▶ 7:46 Oshree Cohen It didn't sell because nobody understood what the heck I was talking about because they were like, well, we have Excel and email.
- ▶ 35:33 Oshree Cohen You can't be a founder because you don't know that Excel macro. 2 times in the scene
Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
- ▶ 30:59 Alan Versteeg I say tongue in cheek, but never in the history of mankind has a human behavior changed when you change a field in an Excel spreadsheet.
He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night
- ▶ 10:42 Vikram Chalana Uh, it's, there's some companies who created these, uh, I mean, open AI created this with a lot of investment from Microsoft and, and, and all that stuff.
7 Fortune 250 CEOs Die Unexpectedly Every Year From This
- ▶ 29:05 Sean Weisbrot She was instead building out a system based inside of Excel.
They Gave Her Responsibility Without Authority - She Saw It Coming
- ▶ 29:36 Sherry Shannon-Vanstone He's the co-founder of Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
Your Kids Signed Contracts With No Expiration Date and No Way Out
550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
- ▶ 34:29 Ricardo Michel Reyes Yeah, so that's the thing, like, um, what Microsoft is doing is one of the most brilliant business movements I've seen in my life, like, they bought GitHub, they bought LinkedIn, um, they, they invested in OpenAI, and they have been… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:29 Sean Weisbrot I specifically upgraded for free to 11 because I'm waiting for the co-pilot.
- ▶ 37:01 Ricardo Michel Reyes Like the value is so great that you don't care is Microsoft and all the history of shitty products and viruses that you got with Windows.
- ▶ 37:42 Sean Weisbrot I purposely went through my windows, uh, settings and turned off anything that reports like that specifically collects data and reports back to them.
- ▶ 37:50 Sean Weisbrot Because I just want, like I logged out of my Microsoft account just so that my computer, my log, my local OS is not connected.
AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
- ▶ 11:04 Ben Foster And you think about the advent of Excel and the impact that that had on accounting, right?
People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
- ▶ 25:50 Matthew Schmidt Um, you know, the, they can ask that at drop of a hat from Slack or Teams or from the web.
- ▶ 38:53 Matthew Schmidt They, they just seem to, they don't have a billion dollars from, from Microsoft.
Passion Is the Fuel, Not the Emotion: One Founder's Case for a New Industry
- ▶ 21:27 Jeremy Lassman Look at how fast that has just, and then you got Microsoft the other day talking about, we're integrating it into Bing, into, uh, Teams, into Edge browser, and now Google has their bar, like, it's fast.
- ▶ 21:27 Jeremy Lassman Look at how fast that has just, and then you got Microsoft the other day talking about, we're integrating it into Bing, into, uh, Teams, into Edge browser, and now Google has their bar, like, it's fast.
- ▶ 21:27 Jeremy Lassman Look at how fast that has just, and then you got Microsoft the other day talking about, we're integrating it into Bing, into, uh, Teams, into Edge browser, and now Google has their bar, like, it's fast.
The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
- ▶ 7:05 Sean Weisbrot Microsoft was an early investor, and, uh, at the, in the middle of January, Microsoft announced acquiring a 49% stake in the company. 2 times in the scene
10,000 Investor Meetings Later, He Saw One Same-Day Commitment
- ▶ 29:09 Sean Weisbrot And then Western companies go over and try to buy the tech because it's cheaper than trying to make it like Microsoft, um, is a huge, uh, has a huge innovation center out there.
They Thought the Equipment Vendor Could Handle the Cash Too
- ▶ 1:44 Anders Lilivik And having managed large global procurement organizations, I know firsthand how difficult it is to manage a couple hundred people, uh, using an Excel spreadsheet and sort of the, the, the starting point of my journey was Excel is not a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:50 Anders Lilivik So that's a lot about procurement and sort of like a packed in way, but as you can imagine, right, managing all these things in Excel and in disparate processes becomes a challenge.
- ▶ 5:00 Sean Weisbrot So beyond Excel, what are some of the basic mistakes that companies make when setting up procurement processes?
- ▶ 20:43 Anders Lilivik And again, this is why Excel is kind of a pain in the took us because it's.
- ▶ 31:24 Anders Lilivik Like I said, with Excel spreadsheets and so on, and we meet that.
- ▶ 34:18 Sean Weisbrot Which was, you look at Slack, you look at teams, they built something that worked for them and everyone else has to use it that way, but it wasn't flexible and it was horribly, uh, it wasn't scalable.
Builders Are the Ticket Before Interoperability Ever Gets Solved
- ▶ 14:28 Sean Weisbrot Like I just, I don't see how that's going to be done unless you have every company in the world agreeing to use a single sign on method that obviously, you know, metaverse or meta was trying to create or, uh, you know, Microsoft might be…
He Closed the Paper the Same Month He Buried His Wife
- ▶ 1:01 Matthew Spohr I was a lucky English major who got to be a technical writer at Microsoft and, uh, very early on, like we're talking way back in the Reagan administration, frankly. 2 times in the scene
A Nonprofit Is Just a Business That Doesn't Turn a Profit
- ▶ 8:05 Sean Weisbrot I would spend the entire month finding the guests, scheduling them, preparing their speeches with them, making sure their PowerPoints made sense, getting them in advance
Someone Moved the Net Every Time He Scored
- ▶ 45:11 Anthony Mongeluzzo Um, I hear the new outlook, um, which I haven't used yet, uh, does a great job at that.
12 Candidates Refused the Job Because of One Person on Their Team
- ▶ 0:42 Travis Lindemann So your AWS, Azure, uh, Google cloud.
- ▶ 11:53 Sean Weisbrot And she was using Excel. 2 times in the scene
He Wrote the Book on Executive Loneliness After Losing a Friend to Suicide
- ▶ 25:57 Nick Jonsson Global and people working from home, and therefore it doesn't really matter where they work because you connect on Zoom or on Teams or whatever you work anyway.
Infinite Money Made Her Client Worse at Shipping Than Startups
- ▶ 17:21 Angela Druckman So I don't know if this is common knowledge outside Seattle, but in Seattle, of course, the birthplace of Microsoft, um, it's common knowledge that the reason Microsoft accumulated so much cash 4 times in the scene
They Showed Up to Inspect a Factory That Did Not Exist Yet
- ▶ 19:28 Omri Shafran Because she's confused or some, some reason we connected the MetaHealth because we're working with the Olo, Microsoft Olo virtual reality.
35% Calmer in 20 Minutes: Why VR Beat the Top Meditation App
- ▶ 2:13 Martin Tobias And so that's how I ended up working for Microsoft and starting that way in the computer industry.
- ▶ 13:28 Sean Weisbrot And I think it's an interesting comparison with the HoloLens too, because Microsoft has been strategically selling to enterprise users for two and a half to 3000 dollars per unit for the last few years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:28 Martin Tobias In like Microsoft's alt space environment or whatever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:57 Martin Tobias If you're standing up in a meeting, presenting a PowerPoint presentation to everybody on their headset, you don't want someone else who's not in your company to be able to walk into that room or to be able to download that PowerPoint… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:58 Martin Tobias So then companies of every size have a challenge of how do they get cultural engagement and the culture comes not from the standup meetings where one guy's giving a PowerPoint presentation.
- ▶ 28:19 Martin Tobias You know, the reason why Microsoft is selling, you know, that their current AR headset into the enterprise so much is that I think the primary use case is for airline maintenance employees or something like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:29 Martin Tobias I'm super interested what Microsoft's gonna do. 4 times in the scene
$500K Profit With Time for Family Beats $1M and Misery
- ▶ 44:22 Ray Blakney If, you know, Microsoft calls them up or I mean, you know, Apple calls them up and says, we need more of these.
Codifying Empathy: What 1 Million Slides Taught This Founder
- ▶ 3:00 Rajat Mishra I've always wondered, being in corporate, I worked at McKinsey and Company for a while, Microsoft.
30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead
- ▶ 10:14 Sean Weisbrot I think there was a company I heard about that was in talks to be acquired by Microsoft and Microsoft strung them along for like a year. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:20 Sean Weisbrot It's probably not Microsoft doing it.
The 90-Second Story That Gets Investors Curious Enough to Ask
- ▶ 13:02 Sean Weisbrot And when I started doing the questioning of potential users, as well as friends and family, et cetera, people who've used Slack and Microsoft teams, they're like, I don't understand what an organization is.
Microsoft Launched a Free App That Competes With Ours
- ▶ 0:03 Sean Weisbrot Microsoft Teams saw massive growth because of the pandemic and acceleration of the remote work trend. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:31 Sean Weisbrot He's also the founder of Experts Inside, which provides a wide range of SharePoint, Office, three, 65, and Yammer services, including strategic consulting, architecture, infrastructure, development, and implementation.
- ▶ 1:59 Sean Weisbrot Thank you for taking the time to sit down with me and talk about Microsoft Teams. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:45 Hilton Gisenau My professional background is pretty much all in the Microsoft space. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:32 Hilton Gisenau And the SharePoint market has moved from SharePoint on premises to SharePoint online and ultimately, you know, office three, six, five and what Microsoft today call call Microsoft three, six, five. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:46 Sean Weisbrot So you just said that you're trying to capture on the growth of teams. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:26 Hilton Gisenau And then teams obviously being what it is and seeing the tremendous growth it was and, and our experience in the Microsoft enterprise kind of marketplace was just a perfect storm, I guess, of everything coming together.
- ▶ 6:20 Hilton Gisenau If you have an existing brand and you kind of just creating your team's projection of that, I mean, people will know like, let's say Trello and GitHub and things like that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:09 Sean Weisbrot Let's talk about the process of building an app for Microsoft teams. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:21 Hilton Gisenau You know, Microsoft, I'm sure many people remember that there's an old famous video of Steve Ballmer from gosh, I don't know, this was probably 1015 years ago, jumping around on stage shouting developers, developers, developers, an old… 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:37 Hilton Gisenau I mean, the Microsoft store is effectively sort of two stores on top of each other. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:40 Hilton Gisenau If you want to see it that way, there's the overall Microsoft app store of which teams is, is just considered one piece of that. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:53 Hilton Gisenau App submission team is, is a sub team in that you're kind of almost fighting Microsoft's bureaucracy in that way. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:45 Hilton Gisenau But also Microsoft mandates that you have to have a website for your app or for your company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:01 Hilton Gisenau And as I said, that's kind of like the primary Microsoft store.
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