Microsoft, every mention
34 scenes (2018), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
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
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:21 Ralph Goody So we've got iOS, Swift, Objective-C, Android, all Java and Kotlin, Web, React, and then Windows. 2 times in the scene
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:03 Mathilde Collin Um, so I would describe it as a shared inbox, so you can think about it as, you know, what Gmail or Outlook does, but we've added collaboration features and workflows so that it works better for teams.
- ▶ 1:52 Mathilde Collin Yeah, meaning in order to have a product that people will use for their individual emails, you need to get to a level of feature parity with Gmail or Outlook that's pretty intense, and so even if you could do it four years ago, it's only… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:52 Mathilde Collin You can try to build Outlook again, and maybe it's the best thing, or maybe it's not.
SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 37:20 Eli Schwartz If you care about Korea, it's Naver, and other than that, I mean, it's Bing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:09 Eli Schwartz There's a similar one that only works on Windows called Xenu Link Sleuth.
Joan Lasenby on Applications of Geometric Algebra in Engineering · Y Combinator
- ▶ 49:38 Joan Lasenby And if you're on Linux, this tends to be not, if you're on Windows, it's like impossible.
Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:28 Suhail Doshi In fact, um, I remember there was a YC company called Zenter which turned into, like, Google Slides, and I remember Robbie Walker during one of our, um, one of, uh, one of our Tuesday dinners said that they had, they didn't even implement… 2 times in the scene
David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:04 David Rusenko And that was really hard because a lot of the tools at the time were geared towards people who were, who were hand coding the websites, basically like front page and dreamweaver.
A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:41 Paul Graham The client meant Windows, right? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:51 Paul Graham No, it's more like you have this sort of inkling that something, you could do something that somebody else hasn't done before, and it's probably a bad idea, but you're too lazy to learn Windows, and so you want to do it that way, right?
- ▶ 9:22 Geoff Ralston Or because they don't like windows.
Carolynn Levy And Panel (Jon Levy, Jason Kwon) - Startup Legal Mechanics · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:09 Carolynn Levy Um, you need to keep a record of every single share of stock that your company issues, and we used to have to do these on these complicated Excel spreadsheets, but fortunately there are now multiple online platforms that will keep track of…
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
Announcing Work at a Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:10 Jared Friedman For large companies like a Microsoft, they hire people of all kinds. 2 times in the scene
John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:18 John Preskill That's actually what Microsoft is pushing very hard. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:21 John Preskill Well-known big players like IBM and Google and Microsoft and Intel, but also a lot of startups now.
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:24 Vivek Ravisankar Um, so we, I, I still have the Excel, which projects us to make, I think somewhere on the lines of a hundred million dollars, uh, or a hundred crores, uh, whatever it's like, fifty million dollars, something along those lines. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:33 Vivek Ravisankar Any tech company anywhere in the world, and we were scrambling for interviewers from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, all over.
- ▶ 7:30 Vivek Ravisankar Uh, the Excel was completely off the trajectory of the Excel graph and where we were.
Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:16 unnamed speaker I mean, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Netflix, all of those, there's quite a bit of market cap if you add those up together.
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:13 Elad Gil We're two really smart people with a PowerPoint deck, and I was like,
- ▶ 40:59 Pejman Nozad The audience were smaller than this side, and I walked to Drew and Arash exactly over there, and I really liked their presentation, and I invited them to the office here, so, and, and when Arash and Drew came, we didn't talk about cloud…
Sam Altman - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:27 Sam Altman Is an example of this where, when, when we funded them, and when they were kind of getting going, everyone was like, oh, it's a perfectly nice product, but, you know, Google, Microsoft, whatever, guaranteed to crush them soon.
The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:58 Avni Patel Thompson I can use Excel as a database.
Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:29 Tom Sparks Microsoft has actually done a lot of work for this previously when Blackberry was still a thing, they were basically number one, but, um, right now