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16 statements across 9 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Mar 30, 2018 by Vivek Ravisankar · said 215 times in 76 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Garry Tan (29), Chas Englander (14), Satya Nadella (13), Max Junestrand (11), Paul Graham (9), Dalton Caldwell (9), Harj Taggar (8), Cory Doctorow (8)
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2026 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
- Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
- Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
- Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 89 mentions in 20 episodes 4 per episode
- Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
- How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2022 17 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- How To Compete With Amazon and Google · Y Combinator
- How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- Should You Follow Your Passion? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- Advantages Of A First-Time Founder · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 22 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator
- Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 54 mentions in 23 episodes 2 per episode
- A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- 15 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20) · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Microsoft, oldest first
Mar 30, 2018 neutral
Ravisankar: Interview Street should have focused on 2-3 companies first
“I think we should have focused on, you know what, we're just going to focus on these two companies, mock interviews, right, versus Any tech company anywhere in the world, and we were scrambling for interviewers from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, all over. We shou…”
May 16, 2018 bullish
Preskill: Validated topological qubit may appear as soon as 2019
“And it's very ambitious, because at this point, it's not even clear they have a single qubit, but if that approach is successful, and we're, it's making progress, so I think we will see a validated Qubit of this type soon, maybe next year.”
Jul 27, 2018
Gil: Microsoft essentially bootstrapped via customer fees until its pre-IPO round
“Microsoft actually used to do this in the early days and they similarly never had to raise funding. They took one round right before they went public because of a relationship, but fundamentally they just bootstrapped.”
Jul 25, 2019 negative
Hale: Big Tech Experience Does Not Give Founders an Unfair Advantage
“And so if you think it's like, well, I'm a product manager at Google. There's a lot of product managers at Google. If you say you're an engineer at Microsoft, there's a lot of engineers at Microsoft. It's like, great, but it's not one that will make me think, …”
Apr 8, 2022 neutral
Seibel: Microsoft Wins by Copying Startup Innovations Years Later
“A structural advantage with a product that's good enough can win. And man, it really helps when some startups specs the whole product for you. Right? Like Microsoft's move is to not innovate the good enough product. It's to copy it. Maybe five to 10 years late…”
Jul 25, 2024 negative
Feb 21, 2025 bearish
Jun 25, 2025 positive
Nadella: World Bank study found AI copilots are top education tech intervention
“By the way, one of the other ones, since you brought it up, there was a World Bank study they did, I think in Nigeria, and now they've taken it to Peru or Chile, one of those in South America. It's, you know, we've been working at Microsoft forever on can ther…”
Jun 25, 2025 neutral
Jun 25, 2025 bullish
Nadella: System software is entering a golden age of infrastructure opportunity
“It's golden age of system software. Quite frankly you know, today, if I had to think about anybody who's building at the infrastructure layer, not just the hyperscalers, but even the startups, I think that's a tremendous opportunity.”
Jun 25, 2025 positive
Nadella: AI foundation models are the modern equivalent of SQL engines
“So I think it's still possible for anyone to build an app tier on top of a model, and you have to sort of abstract yourself and say, yeah, the model is just like SQL was to me. And so I think that, I mean, I always dreamt of a moment when AI slash machine lear…”
Jun 25, 2025 bullish
Nadella: Vision plus speech AI represents a transformative browser moment
“The two things that are just pretty surreal to me is kind of like a new browser moment, right? There is both vision and speech. I leave it on all the time. It can see what I see, and I can speak to it. That seems like a precision mouse movement, right, to me, …”
Jun 25, 2025 negative
Nadella: AI model capability is overhyped relative to real-world impact
“That is the under-hyped story, I think. Because right now the over-hyped thing is the model capability, and the model capability is fantastic, but man, if we can somehow get the world to recognize that this is making a real difference in the lives of people ev…”
Jun 25, 2025 positive
Jun 25, 2025 positive
Aug 8, 2025
Field: Microsoft alerting Figma to viral internal adoption validated product-market fit
“In reality, it took until Microsoft told us, hey, this is spreading like wildfire, and we're asking ourselves, should we shut it down? Or you know, should we keep going? And the reason we're asking ourselves that is because you're not charging us. Maybe you sh…”