Steven Sinofsky

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"FINRA for AI — the problem with FINRA is that is a perfect example of essentially nationalizing risk. Even though the banks all pay money into it and that's how it's run, it's all mandated."

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"I remember when you would buy your CD of Windows 95 and by the time it was done installing you would have a worm potentially."

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"We had the AlphaGo moment — it was the same thing. Frank Chen and I did a podcast at AlphaGo and we had to try to make people understand why it was a good idea."

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"If you take SAP out of a large automobile manufacturer, there's no automobile manufacturer left. The company just evaporates, because the company is defined not just by purchasing the software, not even by just using it, but by how they codified the business rules into that product."

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"It's very interesting to watch Amazon really do some of the best work on this because they really don't want to have humans. What they're doing is learning the best way to automate something and it's their religion."

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"Figma did a bunch of this with design and product development. And so if you can develop software that leverages AI in order to bring together parts of an organization that don't normally communicate, that's a new category."

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"Anyone who's ever tried to displace Microsoft Outlook as email very quickly learned about delegate access and having calendars owned by multiple people and all this crazy stuff."

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"Aaron Levy at Box has done the most eloquent job of explaining repeatedly the assets that exist in all of these Word and Excel documents strewn throughout a company. It's super interesting to watch the customers at Box use Box to actually answer those questions."

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"One of the biggest successes to date in Stripe has been somebody actually went in and for the first time in two generations coded up the software to collect money from people, which itself had previously been an unsolved problem on the scale of insurance."

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"My biggest fear is that Europe decides that GDPR was the best thing ever and they're going to just GDPR AI. And the AI will have one prompt for when text gets emitted that just says this vendor is emitting text and it's probably wrong — yes or no."

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"This was a book in the 80s called The End of Work. The whole thesis was the technology revolution was a complete bust and we got no gains in productivity but now there's going to be no more jobs because the economy is stagnant"