Microsoft

Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #169

Lex Fridman

Mentioned as a company with a CEO (Satya Nadella) who is praised for his human-centric leadership style.

E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023

All-In Podcast

Awarded as a biggest business winner for its market cap growth of over a trillion dollars in 2023, consumer and enterprise strength, successful acquisition of Activision, and leadership during the OpenAI weekend.

Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE

Latent Space

Mentioned in the context of their research on multi-agent systems and also as the provider of Office 365, which has high value due to ecosystem lock-in.

E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked

All-In Podcast

Mentioned as a company, along with Apple, that went public in under a decade during the PC era, contrasted with today's longer IPO timelines. Also mentioned for 'Co-pilot' AI tool.

0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)

Latent Space

Discussed as a major player in developer tools and AI, with products like CodeSpaces and investments in OpenAI and Anthropic, making them a formidable potential competitor.

Announcing Work at a Startup

Y Combinator

Mentioned as an example of a large company with easier hiring due to a wide variety of roles.

Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more

All-In Podcast

Became an observer on the OpenAI board after the Sam Altman drama. Sam Altman threatened to take OpenAI employees and 'set up shop' at Microsoft.

The Happiness Expert That Made 51 Million People Happier: Mo Gawdat | E101

The Diary Of A CEO

Mo Gawdat worked at Microsoft with an office in Seattle during part of his journey to find happiness, experiencing frequent random security checks at JFK airport.

Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar | Lex Fridman Podcast #266

Lex Fridman

A major technology company that initially threatened hackers who reported vulnerabilities but later adopted bug bounty programs to improve security.

Design for Startups by Garry Tan (Part 1)

Y Combinator

A large technology company whose websites are noted for sometimes using passive voice and complex product naming, which is contrasted with the direct approach startups should use.

Ep. 202: TikTok Dismisses Facebook, Good vs Deep, and Process-Centric Email | Deep Questions Podcast

Cal Newport

Company co-founded by Bill Gates, used as a point of comparison for long-term CEO leadership.

Ep. 201: Making a Living Online, Artificial Intelligence, and Reducing Attention Residue

Cal Newport

A tech company where Cal Newport had a job interview as a college student before the widespread use of cell phones, illustrating a time when people were less reachable.

Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept

Latent Space

Invested in OpenAI and participated in crucial pitch meetings where the GPT-2 demo was presented.

Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence

Predictive History

A technology company whose capital is predicted to flow to Israel to facilitate the 'Great Patria'.

Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox

Latent Space

Mentioned as a competitor that Dropbox may eventually have to contend with, similar to other tech giants.

John Preskill on Quantum Computing

Y Combinator

A big player in quantum technology, specifically pushing very hard for topological quantum computing as an ambitious hardware approach for better qubits and control.

E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?

All-In Podcast

Owns 49% of OpenAI and stands to benefit from its potential valuation increase.

All-In's 2026 Predictions

All-In Podcast

No.1 Money Saving Experts: Do Not Buy A House! Putting Money In A Bank Makes You Poorer!

The Diary Of A CEO

#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders

All-In Podcast

Company from which some individuals who couldn't succeed there later joined Facebook.

Production AI Engineering starts with Evals

Latent Space

The speaker's first internship, working on Bing's distributed compute infrastructure. The experience was impactful but lacked intense creativity and room for interesting work.

E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more

All-In Podcast

Technology company whose market value accrued significantly post-IPO, mentioned as an example of long-term value creation.

All-In Summit: Nuclear fusion and the potential for energy abundance

All-In Podcast

Helion's first customer, with a power purchase agreement for a 50-megawatt fusion power plant to come online in 2028.

The Ultimate Guide to Prompting - with Sander Schulhoff from LearnPrompting.org

Latent Space

Contributed researchers to the Prompt Report, highlighting their significant role in AI development and research.