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Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:31 Blake Scholl Imagine a whole bunch of engineering specialists, each working in an Excel spreadsheet on their own discipline, and then handing off the results of analysis from one engineer to another.
- ▶ 36:56 Blake Scholl In the 19 seventies, Bill said his goal for Microsoft was to put a personal computer in every home and on every desk running Microsoft software. 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 32:48 Amjad Masad And coding agents turned to be a workaround and hack because a lot of things that you could do in front of the computer, you could do with code, including, you know, scripting an Excel sheet, right? 2 times in the scene
Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:37 Tom Feldman We looked at a lot of those, and a lot of it was, you know, a bunch of PowerPoint stuff that didn't seem like it had a very bright future, and we were certainly both hardware people, and so we kind of understood what it would take to take… 2 times in the scene
Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:07 Aaron Epstein So AI re-imagine for Excel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:37 Aaron Epstein This looks like a screenshot from Excel or something like that.
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:20 Aaron Levie It just like emerged one day and it was like, this is like, it seems kind of cool and efficient, but if you're in an IT department, the cloud was actually very scary because you're taking your servers that you manage, you can see them,…
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:56 Amjad Masad Uh, until the Excel sheet. 2 times in the scene
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:54 Bob McGrew The product that the users saw, well, you know, they were used to basically, you know, tracking, doing their analysis and tracking people in a tool that looked like PowerPoint.
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:26 Max Junestrand Exemption from human review when you look at the way Azure and AWS is structured, and we, we kind of jumped through all those hoops and just built a system that was compliant for law firms to work with, and then very quickly as the general…
- ▶ 6:32 Max Junestrand The first one is the web application, and the second one is our Word add-in. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:25 Max Junestrand So redlining files within word against a precedent or playbook, completely impossible.
- ▶ 23:53 Max Junestrand So building our infrastructure, I think from the beginning, it was pretty clear that we wanted to be on Azure just because it was the same that our customers were on. 2 times in the scene
The Sales Playbook For Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:00 Tom Blomfield If you can work from Excel imports and exports, for example, that can work.
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:21 Dylan Field But in reality, it took until Microsoft told us, hey, this is spreading like wildfire, and we're asking ourselves, should we shut it down?
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:12 Chas Englander What that actually means in practice is we've, so we've built a workspace that's akin to kind of the office suite.
- ▶ 1:18 Chas Englander So our own version of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, with the major difference that it's built on top of an agentic system that kind of mirrors what a human has access to at the firms we work with. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18 Chas Englander So our own version of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, with the major difference that it's built on top of an agentic system that kind of mirrors what a human has access to at the firms we work with.
- ▶ 1:18 Chas Englander So our own version of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, with the major difference that it's built on top of an agentic system that kind of mirrors what a human has access to at the firms we work with.
- ▶ 2:45 Chas Englander So they would have their, um, data sets, uh, and then they would, they would spend a lot of time in the office suite or in Outlook, right?
- ▶ 2:59 Chas Englander You know, I think, you know, the key here is we're definitely not saying that humans should like never do these tasks, but you know, if you're organizing logos in a PowerPoint presentation and you've done that,
- ▶ 6:08 Chas Englander So you have an Excel spreadsheet that's already connected into these data sources.
- ▶ 29:57 Chas Englander You know, at least as of today, if our product, we made it, we made a call that we would kind of rebuild our version of like PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, because we, we do believe, at least for the time being, that the way in which people… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:57 Chas Englander You know, at least as of today, if our product, we made it, we made a call that we would kind of rebuild our version of like PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, because we, we do believe, at least for the time being, that the way in which people… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:57 Chas Englander You know, at least as of today, if our product, we made it, we made a call that we would kind of rebuild our version of like PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, because we, we do believe, at least for the time being, that the way in which people… 2 times in the scene
Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI | Anthropic Co-founder Jared Kaplan · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:37 Jared Kaplan I come from a research background rather than, uh, rather than business, so I don't, I don't know that I have anything very, uh, very deep to say, but I think that, like, in general, any place where, um, it requires a lot of skill, um, and…
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:30 Garry Tan and then I got my job at Microsoft, and I was a level 59 PM, uh, you know, lowest of the low, but I had health insurance, and my parents were really, really proud of me. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:25 unnamed speaker Um, I want to ask Gary, you talked about like that level 59 job at Microsoft and like your parents are proud.
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:29 Garry Tan It's my pleasure to welcome the chairman and CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella.
- ▶ 1:15 Garry Tan Um, you know, at Microsoft, how does this actually drive your strategy and particularly thinking about how AI will influence ideas behind, beyond, you know, the immediate incredible product suite, you know, like the broader economy? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:28 Satya Nadella And then suddenly people said with email and PCs and Excel, they said, let's bring those, like, let me just send an Excel spreadsheet and email.
- ▶ 20:37 Satya Nadella Uh, in fact, when I think about Excel, I think of it as an IDE.
- ▶ 23:05 Satya Nadella I don't know who, which dev manager you worked at Microsoft, but I really look
- ▶ 26:10 Garry Tan It feels like Microsoft is sort of full of examples of things that, uh, lower the floor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:45 Satya Nadella Uh, but this study said by access to something like a co-pilot is probably the best tech intervention in education, uh, in Africa or in Latin America, and that's, you know, that's been the dream, I think, that we've all had in tech, and…
- ▶ 27:07 Garry Tan I'm curious because, you know, your co-pilot in Windows is, uh, you know, often, you know, here in tech, like, maybe people are really obsessed with the latest frontier models, but it's easy to forget, like, you know, Windows and the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:53 Satya Nadella The dream has always been, in fact, the first research group Bill built at Microsoft Research was Speech, um, in 1995.
- ▶ 27:53 Satya Nadella The dream has always been, in fact, the first research group Bill built at Microsoft Research was Speech, um, in 1995.
- ▶ 28:53 Garry Tan Yeah, computer use is fascinating in that, I mean, you have the intelligence, and then computer use is actually the superset of, ah, all the data, like your personal data, your work data, your, you know, all your office docs, like…
- ▶ 29:53 Garry Tan I mean, in that respect, you know, when you look at, um, you know, both your company and you could argue Apple, they sort of have to be on the front lines of protecting privacy for all computer users in the world, actually.
- ▶ 30:46 Garry Tan Satya, you've had absolutely extraordinary journey at Microsoft, starting as an engineer all the way up to CEO. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:06 Garry Tan Um, I actually did learn how to, uh, do product management and project management as a PM on Windows Mobile, and, uh, when I was employee number 10 at Palantir, I taught them, uh, actually how to run a project, zero bug bounds, and, you… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:35 Satya Nadella I mean, we are being added man for like, it's like I'm the third CEO at Microsoft who has been writing checks on quantum.
- ▶ 38:28 Garry Tan Um, so just to close, I just wanted to get your sense, you know, let's do a simulation of a sort, you know, you're, uh, 22 years old and you're level 59 at Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:55 Satya Nadella If you look back in the history of Microsoft, how Office got built is a, you know, it's an unbelievable, uh, story in the sense of thinking of these tools, um,
- ▶ 39:17 Satya Nadella I mean, I mean, I mean, that's why I always say what's your, if somebody asks me what's my favorite product, it's always, you know, VS code is one and the other one is Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:55 Satya Nadella Like when I see even co-pilot today, that's kind of where I feel like, you know, researcher, analyst, creator.
- ▶ 40:01 Satya Nadella These are like the word Excel PowerPoint, right?
- ▶ 40:01 Satya Nadella These are like the word Excel PowerPoint, right?
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:30 Andrej Karpathy And it's kind of interesting to me that the ecosystem is shaping in a very similar kind of way where you have a few closed source providers like Windows or Mac OS, and then you have an open source alternative like Linux, and I think for,… 2 times in the scene
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:30 Michael Truell And we were doing things like forking Megatron LM or Microsoft DeepSpeed and kind of ripping out the internals and then, um, you know, deploying that for training.
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
How Zepto Became India’s Fastest Growing Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:21 Aadit Palicha So the way that I look at it is, you know, we're like a very nascent internet native company, and, and we, I was actually talking to someone senior at Microsoft yesterday, and he gave us, gave me a really good framework, which is,
From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:15 Harj Taggar The grants will be 20,000 dollars in cash and another 90,000 dollars in compute credits from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.
AI Interfaces Of The Future | Design Review · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:54 Aaron Epstein It's, it's interesting to think about things like Microsoft Word, right?
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:10 Aravind Srinivas I was more worried about, like, Microsoft in the beginning, uh, because they were launching Bing Chat. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:10 Aravind Srinivas I was more worried about, like, Microsoft in the beginning, uh, because they were launching Bing Chat. 2 times in the scene
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:35 Parker Conrad And so if you look at, you know, companies like SAP and Oracle and Microsoft, they actually look like compound software businesses, maybe, you know, Salesforce to a certain extent as well.
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:15 Harj Taggar Like, it feels to me again like when GitHub Copilot first came on the scene, it seemed it's GitHub plus Microsoft.
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:23 unnamed speaker So if you have lots and lots of salespeople, it turns out it's quite a complex math that goes beyond my Excel skills to figure that out.
How To Price For B2B | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:32 Tom Blomfield So people at AWS, Microsoft, OpenAI, giving out tons and tons of credits to startups.
Why Founders Shouldn't Think Like Investors · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:53 Dalton Caldwell To build a bunch of PowerPoints. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:28 Michael Seibel Macro you can do on an Excel spreadsheet.
- ▶ 16:33 Dalton Caldwell I would argue this is a similar thing, which is all, you know, all the Excel spreadsheet modeling you learn as an investment banker.
How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:04 unnamed speaker Um, they asked us to fill out this word doc with information.
- ▶ 13:50 Gustaf Alströmer Even though it might appear basics to you, for example, like Excel or Google Spreadsheets is actually competitors to many, many, many, many hundreds of startups. 3 times in the scene
Advantages Of A First-Time Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:08 Michael Seibel And, you know, I think we would be remiss without adding that, you know, some of the biggest companies ever, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, first time founders.
How To Compete With Amazon and Google · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:21 Harj Taggar Yeah, I think a good recent example of this too is probably Microsoft Teams and Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:38 Harj Taggar But good enough that Microsoft could actually use that like massive sales distribution advantage 4 times in the scene
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:32 Dalton Caldwell And he didn't want to run Outlook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:34 Dalton Caldwell Like, the Google, like, suits were trying to get him to run Outlook on Windows, and he was like, eh, I don't really want to run Windows. 2 times in the scene
Should You Follow Your Passion? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:13 Dalton Caldwell Um, what was the genesis of the company's Microsoft and Apple? 2 times in the scene
Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:47 Diego Saez-Gil You know, big companies like Google and, you know, Microsoft and Apple all have, uh, an area of focus on climate change.
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:52 Amber Atherton Going into it with a structure of, okay, let's fill out this Excel sheet.
- ▶ 1:01:30 Amber Atherton Get an Excel.
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:23 Matt Cutts I mean, trying to make sure that in those early days, Microsoft didn't realize how much money was coming from search engines.
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:45 Cory Doctorow Um, at one point, uh, Microsoft had not just, uh, dominance in the operating system market and the applications market, but it was establishing dominance in the local networking market intranets. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:29 Cory Doctorow So Lawrence Lessig, the cyber lawyer who was the special master of the Microsoft antitrust case and co-founded Creative Commons and so on,
Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:33 Kevin Hale Uh, if you say you're an engineer at Microsoft, there's a lot of engineers at Microsoft.
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:23 Gustaf Alströmer Like, the first year or two, I remember all A-B tests was basically an Excel,
Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:10 Tracy Young And then we would later release it on Android and, and windows
Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:18 Michael Babineau How do I load this into Excel? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:28 Michael Babineau Like, uh, think of it as a, a, a group of analysts who are, um, you know, working in Excel and trying to figure out, like, is, you know, is, um, Stitch Fix a good, like, a, a, a, a poised for growth in the longer term?
Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:01 Jonathan Gill The way they viewed the market, despite that Microsoft lost that name, Blogcast could have been what we're talking about, uh, but, uh, that team was highly effective, but they were small, and then depending on how it's viewed within Apple,…
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:51 Brian Halligan Well, we compete with Adobe, Salesforce, Microsoft, you know, those companies are hundreds of billions of dollars in market cap.
Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:33 Jarvis Johnson Excuse me, there are a lot of companies visiting for recruiting purposes, and I was like, oh, Facebook is here, Microsoft is here, these are just, like, things that I know of from, like, my computer screen, but they're, like, they're…
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 56:54 Craig Cannon I don't know if you've seen this one before, but it's like a, a very hot burn on Microsoft and where he's just like, listen, they're, they're good people.
Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:22 Karn Saroya Certainly can model things and, uh, you know, build PowerPoint slide decks.
Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator
- ▶ 49:37 Reham Fagiri I mean, I think we were just like able to dig into a lot of detail that it was hard to catch when if you're just manipulating Excel documents before.
Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:52 Andrew Kortina It can be nice to escape that for a while, and I think, like, craft has that sort of, you know, like, cooking is like that, or, you know, writing software is like that, working with your hands, I think is like that, um, doing Excel, I…
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:22 Brian Donohue So whether it was Mailbox or Dropbox or Sunrise with Microsoft or Parse of Facebook.
A Conversation with Werner Vogels · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:03 Dr. Werner Vogels So no PowerPoint, no keynote, nothing like that.
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:53 Paul Buchheit They're like, no, serious businesses will always use Windows. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:42 Paul Buchheit I'm like, well, you're never gonna be a happy user. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:27 Paul Buchheit So like, you know, Intel and Microsoft, um, and, and, 2 times in the scene
A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
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