Microsoft, every mention
9 scenes (2017), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 44:15 Szymon Sidor Uh, somewhere around three AM we had like a phone call with Azure because, uh, it turns out that with certain number of machines, you start exceeding some limits.
Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:25 Avni Patel Thompson I had a landing page on Squarespace, signups and feedback forms were done through Typeform, Stripe handled the payments, I did scheduling via Google Calendar, communication with SMS, and my database was Excel.
- ▶ 15:22 Avni Patel Thompson And so I moved on to Excel.
VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:07 Diane Greene But, but anyhow, um, I was, ah, he got this email from all these people up at Microsoft about a paper that was supposedly under blind review, and I'm like, oh man, you really got to get a patent filed here.
- ▶ 4:32 Diane Greene Well, you know, um, so I'd made money from the extreme, the video, the streaming video company from Microsoft, and I always delighted in telling 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:47 Diane Greene You know, I decided, so because we sat between the Intel hardware and the Microsoft operating system, they were both monopolies, and so it was a little bit... 2 times in the scene
At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:15 Craig Cannon So there, you like give them, you know, the PowerPoint deck and they're like, oh, okay, I kind of get how this works.
The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:11 Ed McManus Like, so like in the nineties, so imagine who he's actually Microsoft, right? 3 times in the scene
Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:52 Sam Altman The normal way people do this is just someone keeps an Excel spreadsheet.