Acquired

Season 2, Episode 7: PowerPoint

May 4, 2018

01:18:28

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Episode notes

Communicating visually it is its own genre

03:24

Facing the Ultimatum: Make Progress or Fail

01:15

The Future of Business Presentations

03:37

Success through Bundling Resources and Cross-Pollination

01:22

Introduction

2min

Investing in a New Business Line - Power Point

3min

Investing Intuitively With Tegus

2min

The Origins of Power Point

2min

What's the Future of Technology?

2min

Forethoughtis Foreshadowing the Graphical User in a Face to Come

4min

Power Point - The Complete History of Building Power Pint

4min

The History of File Maker and Forethought

3min

The Future of Business Presentations

4min

10.

Is It Possible to Build a Web Application on a Public Document?

3min

11.

Apple Strategic Investment Group Invests in Mac OS X X 10

2min

12.

Microsoft - I Thought Soft Were to Do Overhead Projectors?

2min

13.

Is It a Product, Not a Feature?

2min

14.

Forethought Power Point - What Is It All About?

2min

15.

Micrasoft

3min

16.

Power Point and Microsopt - The Original Facebook Style Acquisition

2min

17.

Power Point - The Story, More or Less

3min

18.

Powerpoint - The Power of Lockin and Network Effects

2min

19.

The Ultimate Bundling and Microsoft Office

2min

20.

Is the Office Your Most Important Application Boom?

2min

21.

Power Point and Power Point - The History of the Product Market

2min

22.

Microsof vs Power Point

2min

23.

Bundling for Customers?

2min

24.

A Year or Two Is an Eternity in a Rapidl Exploding Market

2min

25.

Are You Going to Monotize on a Platform?

3min

26.

Do We Know Enough About the Space Yet to Start a Company?

2min

27.

Acquisitions - The Magic Moment, Just Just Once

2min

28.

Office - The Power Point of the Future?

2min

29.

I'm Going to Rest My Pen at B Plus.

3min

30.

The Mindfulness in Plain English Book Review

2min

31.

Electric Scooters - Are They a Good Idea?

4min

32.

The Bicycle for a Bicycle

2min

33.

Tegus - Achieved - Is Awesome?

2min

Acquired returns with a classic, delving into Microsoft’s first acquisition ever: Forethought Inc, the makers of PowerPoint. Hate it or love it, you can’t deny the combined companies’ impact: by the early 90’s PowerPoint had transformed the way businesses, educators and governments communicate, ensuring job security for pointy-haired Dilbert bosses everywhere.

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