Steven Sinofsky
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5,951 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3d ago
Steven Sinofsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like what differentiates the companies and what differentiates them is how they operate and the internal processes to decide what car to make, how many more materials to buy, what currencies to hedge, how many people to hire, when to introduce a new product line.
All of that is enterprise resource management and planning.
And how is all of that done?
It's all in SAP.
So those companies are effectively run by people sitting in conference rooms looking at SAP screens.
And the difference between Ford and Toyota and General Motors and Daimler are just, are not,
just that they're looking at the same screen.
It's that they chose which screens to look at, which customizations to make in those screens, and then they go and they buy steel and aluminum and wire and dashboards and radios from all the same places.
And so I just think that people wildly underestimate
The level of sophistication that customers apply to this software.
Back when we were first starting to get Excel used in companies, you'll laugh at this, but we used to do these little visits and we'd go visit bankers.
And so we're sitting in Goldman Sachs and we're telling them about Excel is better than Lotus 1-2-3.
Well, that's super old.
You don't even know what 1-2-3 is.
I know what that is.
Trust me, it's old.
And the guy at Goldman looked at us and said, I don't think you understand.
We make more money from Excel than you do.
And we're just sitting there like, what is he talking about?
Like, it made no sense to us.
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