John Collison

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Cheeky Pint · Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom · 18 Nov 2025 podcast

But we just felt at an intuitive level, and we felt this before we could prove it, that what the startups were interested in were often better product experience.

And so if the startups want stable coins or usage-based billing or what have you, we should build for those needs, not just because we'll have a good startup business, but the enterprises will come around.

And it took us, I would say, many years to kind of prove out that model, but now we're really seeing.

Is Microsoft thinking about generated UIs that are personalized to like when you think about it, software is stuck in the old paradigm of, you know, we write a bunch of software and it goes to Goldmaster and it, you know, uh it goes out on disks.

And now that same kind of software is delivered in the cloud, but the UI you want is probably, you know, we can render that exact UI in real time.

Is that a direction you guys are going to be?

Okay, interesting.

So you think right now programmers spend all their time in an IDE, but they're one of the few professions that does that, and your vision is the accountant IDE, the lawyer IDE, and what is the metaphor?

Is that one app?

Is that ten different apps?

Like it's kind of interesting if you think about the productivity suite that emerged.

There was

you know, three big apps in um Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

But it's interesting that n that number was not one and was not forty, it was three.

And so how do you think about this in the

I'm struck by in technology how frequently you see the pattern of excitement.

For and a vision around a technology being so much earlier than the technology actually being ready.

Like the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey, which was in the 60s, like that was a voice-activated AI with tool use, you know, capabilities.

And, you know, it just took 50 years.

And then, you know, people were excited about the idea that you could speak to your computer and you know, text to speech, speech to text.

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