Microsoft, every mention
6 scenes (2026), the whole family · ← back to Microsoft
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
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