Microsoft, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
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.