This Week in Startups: MSFT adds $10B, Stripe mafia memes, Spotify: platform or publisher, Scratchpad case-study | E1370

We break down Microsoft’s amazing earnings (quarterly revenue is up $10B year-over-year) and assess if Satya Nadella is the greatest big tech CEO right now (2:32). Then, we follow-up on the Stripe Mafia thread yesterday from the Bolt CEO (20:59) and we talk about Neil Young asking to have his music removed from Spotify over Joe Rogan’s COVID conversations, which prompted a discussion of Spotify’s new headache is it a publisher or a platform (37:40)? And, we talk about Scratchpad raising $33M, which led to Jason's request for new types of startups: beautiful interfaces for giant clunky products.

00:00 Jason and Molly intro the show

02:32 Microsoft’s amazing earnings

09:29 Ourcrowd - Check out the deal of the week at https://ourcrowd.com/twist

10:04 Is Satya Nadella the greatest big tech CEO

19:01 Notion - Go to https://Notion.so and use promo code TWIST to get $250 off its annual team plan

20:59 Bolt vs. Stripe VC Twitter beef continued

30:07 Vanta - Get get $1,000 off automating your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist

31:27 The best jokes from Bolt & Stripe

37:40 Neil Young petitioned Spotify to remove his music over Joe Rogan’s COVID conversations

43:16 Is Spotify a publisher or a platform?

1:04:39 Scratchpad, a slick Salesforce front-end raises $33M

1:06:23 Request for new types of startups: beautiful interfaces for giant crappy products

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