Steven Sinofsky
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5,566 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 5d ago
Steven Sinofsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, Mad Men goes through the scenario where the computer shows up at the advertising agency
And they run around trying to figure out, explain what it does for people, which they also got a copy machine, the same thing they did.
But it was interesting because they couldn't figure out what to do, but they were excited that they had the capital to acquire one, and it made them look like they knew what they were doing.
Which also, it's incredibly, that is why there can be so much optimism now.
Because although capital is scarce and it's hard to get and all of these other things, once you get it, as we know, the building based on people was also hard, like just scaling that and doing more.
And then nine people can't do anything faster.
I'm telling you,
Well, one way to think about that is, is I'll bring it back to what I, I think that your foundation enables what I think is the most exciting thing, which is we're really on the cusp of a wave of, of apps, right?
And like the fact that now you can apply capital without also being a recruiter for 10 years and have output, now all of the world that's unserved by software, which is literally all of it, like everybody who complains about whether it's medical resources.
records or scheduling to go to a doctor.
My favorite are lawyers.
Nobody has cheered more that, oh my God, we're finally going to be able to automate lawyers with AI, which is the weirdest thing in a world where everybody is against everything except having more lawyers.
But all of this,
This means that the person who has the domain experience, like, we used to love, like, venture capital thing.
Like, oh, you know, it turns out it's, like, really, really hard to, like, build commercial real estate.
Wouldn't it be great if somebody who understands commercial real estate built a software company?
But then they don't know how to build software.
Well, they should get a co-founder who knows how to build software and teach them about 20 years of commercial real estate.
It's really hard.
But now the path from that kind of idea is a capital problem.
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