Results for "Microsoft"
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StandardSummaries onlyThe Steve Ballmer Interview
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jun 2, 2025
We sit down with Steve Ballmer, the legendary former Microsoft CEO and owner of the LA Clippers, for an epic conversation covering his 34 years at Microsoft. Steve listened to our Microsoft episodes and had some thoughts…
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StandardSummaries onlyMicrosoft Volume II
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jul 22, 2024
In 1999, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world. And in 2019, Microsoft became the most valuable company in the world, again. But… what happened in the twenty years in between? The answer, as we discover…
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StandardSummaries onlyClaude 365
Tech Brew Ride Home· Mar 9, 2026
Anthropic is fighting the government in court. Microsoft is turning to Anthropic to get agentic in all its productivity products. A big new hyperscaler startup has raised a monster round. And could the war with Iran be s…
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StandardSummaries only#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories
Lex Fridman Podcast· Aug 29, 2025
- The following is a conversation with Dave Plummer, programmer and an old-school Microsoft software engineer who helped work on Windows 95, NT, and XP, building a lot of incredible tools, some of which have been continu…
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StandardSummaries onlyMicrosoft Volume I
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Apr 22, 2024
Microsoft. After nearly a decade of Acquired episodes, we are finally ready to tackle the most valuable company ever created. The company that put a computer on every desk and in every home. The company that invented the…
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StandardSummaries only20VC: SpaceX Completes Acquisition of xAI | The 2026 SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse | Microsoft's $360 Billion Market Cap Loss | NVIDIA's $100BN Investment Dispute with OpenAI | Waymo Raises $16 Billion at a $110 Billion Valuation
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Feb 5, 2026
AGENDA: 00:00 - SpaceX Completes Acquisition of xAI in $1.25 Trillion Merger 08:44 - The Rehabilitation of the IPO and the End of "State Private Forever" 15:53 - The 2026 SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse 31:20 - Nex…
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StandardSummaries onlyMicrosoft’s new data center strategy, and Chinese AI adoption 1/13/26
TechCheck· Jan 13, 2026
Microsoft is out with a new plan to reduce consumers’ electricity costs from data centers. And as domestic U.S. pushback against data centers grows, Chinese AI is seeing growing adoption across the world. Hosted by Simpl…
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StandardSummaries onlyOpenAI Memo Touts Amazon Partnership, Criticizes Anthropic 4/13/26
TechCheck· Apr 13, 2026
CNBC’s Kate Rooney reports the latest news regarding OpenAI, including an internal memo praising the company’s partnership with Amazon over Microsoft and criticizing rival Anthropic. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz comp…
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StandardSummaries onlyMicrosoft Ends "This is an Xbox" Campaign
Game Mess Mornings· Mar 13, 2026
This is not an Xbox. This is a news show and we got Lex Luddy joining Grubb today! To end the week we chat about some Crimson Desert previews, Xbox retiring the "This is an Xbox" campaign and marching towards AI, gaming …
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StandardSummaries onlyPhil Spencer Leaves Xbox
Game Mess Mornings· Feb 23, 2026
We have Lex Luddy on the show today with Grubb to try and dissect the current happenings over at Xbox with Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond leaving, pitches that Bluepoint Games originally had, spending numbers from January, …
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StandardSummaries onlyTechCheck Takes: Anthropic’s Claude Code and the rising threat to software — Replit CEO weighs in 1/22/26
TechCheck· Jan 22, 2026
Replit is launching a feature that will let users create fully published and monetizable iOS apps using nothing more than natural language. It’s a big step forward in the AI-first coding space, a feature that bigger play…
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StandardSummaries only20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Jan 11, 2026
Luke Harries is Head of Growth at ElevenLabs, where he leads marketing, product, engineering, and developer experience. ElevenLabs has raised $281M with the latest round pricing the company at a $6.6B valuation. Previous…
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StandardSummaries only20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Dec 19, 2025
Gérald Marolf is the Chief Product Officer at On Running. Gérald oversees the full range of On's shoes, apparel and accessories to make sure each delivers performance, comfort and style. Before On, Gérald spent over a de…
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StandardSummaries onlyPressure on the AI Agent narrative 12/3/25
TechCheck· Dec 3, 2025
Shares of Microsoft under pressure today even after the company pushed back on reporting that the tech giant was lowering AI sales quotas. But it's another piece of the rapidly evolving AI landscape as signs of pressure …
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StandardSummaries onlyThe state of the AI trade: ChatGPT turns three 12/1/25
TechCheck· Dec 1, 2025
OpenAI's ChatGPT turned three this week. As the AI trade enters its fourth year, OpenAI finds its position shifting from disruptor to incumbent. We dig into the themes of the first three years of the AI trade and look to…
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StandardSummaries onlyStartup Losses Fuel AI Boom 11/14/25
TechCheck· Nov 14, 2025
Fears around a big tech AI bubble are still weighing on markets, but the source of frothiness could instead be from the private AI markets. Startup losses are the engine of the boom, and every dollar they burn on compute…
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StandardSummaries onlyGoogle Part I: Origins of Search
Acquired· Ben Gilbert· Jun 30, 2025
We tell the story of the single greatest business ever created: Google search. From its origins as a Stanford research project called BackRub, Google became the front door to the internet. Today it’s an essential service…
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StandardSummaries onlyBuilding the Internet of Agents with Vijoy Pandey
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)· Vijoy Pandey· Jun 24, 2025
Today, we're joined by Vijoy Pandey, SVP and general manager at Outshift by Cisco to discuss a foundational challenge for the enterprise: how do we make specialized agents from different vendors collaborate effectively? …
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Intelligence ReportAnthropic Limits Mythos AI Rollout 4/8/26
TechCheck· Apr 8, 2026
Anthropic's powerful new AI model Claude Mythos is launching exclusively to 40 tech partners including Apple, Google, and Microsoft, citing cybersecurity risks too dangerous for public release.
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StandardSummaries onlySOTS 2nd Hour: What's Next In Iran, ADP Jobs/Retail Sales Takeaways, & Nike's Next Shoe To Drop 4/1/26
Squawk on the Street· Apr 1, 2026
Strong data - alongside growing hopes an end to the Iran war is in sight - boosting stocks... Sara Eisen, David Faber, and Carl Quintanilla began the hour with fresh analysis of this morning's ADP Jobs & Retail Sales rep…
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Intelligence ReportIs AI About To Get More Expensive
Tech Brew Ride Home· Mar 30, 2026
Tech Brew Ride Home explores the rise and fall of OpenAI's Sora, the increasing costs of AI models, and Anthropic's architectural breakthroughs, while highlighting Amazon's Project Hail Mary as its biggest movie success.
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StandardSummaries onlyStocks and Oil Rise, Not So "Magnificent 7," Sysco Tumbles on $29B Deal 3/30/26
Squawk on the Street· Mar 30, 2026
With the Dow and S&P 500 in the midst of five-week losing streaks, Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber explored why both stocks and oil prices kicked off the holiday-shortened week with gains. The anchors reacte…
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StandardSummaries onlyWhen AI Breaks Things
Tech Brew Ride Home· Feb 20, 2026
When your AI bot breaks your operations, even when you’re AWS. More on OpenAI’s hardware plans. Hey, remember Perplexity? What’s up with them? Is Uber roadkill in the self-driving car horserace? And, of course, the Weeke…
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StandardSummaries only20VC's Big Fat Quiz of the Year: Founder, Fund and Breakout Company of 2025 | Predictions for 2026: The Company to Buy, The Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win 2026 and The Tailwinds NVIDIA Will Face
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· Dec 22, 2025
AGENDA: 03:48 Founder of the Year 2025 06:58 Product of the Year 10:05 Fund of the Year 20:52 Breakout Companies of 2025: Who Made the Biggest Impact? 26:57 Biggest Surprises of 2025 32:57 Predictions for 2026: Top Perfo…
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