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Sep 12, 2026
ChrisAUDIENCE
But you can search quicker with the... with your stupid device, if I can call them that, because the problem is you can also lose information on some of these devices and you need particular software to go back and recover them.
ChrisAUDIENCE
There's a couple of examples where I felt very comfortable years ago using WordPerfect for words, for letters.
ChrisAUDIENCE
Then Multimate came along, but I compared the two and I think WordPerfect was the better one.
ChrisAUDIENCE
But now you move on to the newer programs, which I'm not sure that they're really any better because you don't need to remember codes, but I don't think they are better.
ChrisAUDIENCE
That's my view.
Denver RigglemanGUEST
And, you know, so a lot of people are like, oh, here's the data.
Denver RigglemanGUEST
And we've had like copied PDFs, old Word documents, you know, stuff that came from WordPerfect in 1938, you know, whatever.
Denver RigglemanGUEST
But, you know, so we have, you know, all this data that we can actually identify, right? We OCR it, optical character recognition, right? we take that down, digitize it, then we start integrating those flows and what they can do for compare and contrast in all historical data, even looking at how their pricing has shifted, right? We could even say, have you kept up with CPI? Have you kept up with inflation? Why are you paying these people this? That's way too low, right? But it's great, but that's why they're leaving your company, right? You're paying $12 an hour, they're making $48 an hour at at Charlie's place.
Denver RigglemanGUEST
And so, and I know these are very simple examples, but it can get much more complex, much more exquisite.
Terry WangGUEST
So you probably still remember Corel.
Terry WangGUEST
If you remember WordPerfect or CorelDRAW, like we were, we were there.
Brian BellHOST
So today,
Terry WangGUEST
today, right now we're recording this in early August.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
So there was a Justice Department, and there was actually talk about breaking Microsoft into Windows and all its, because their argument, and there's actually a basis for this, is there's a reason nobody's ever been able to come up with a PC version of Word, PowerPoint, et cetera, because Microsoft, by working with Windows, was always able to make its office system work much better than everybody else.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
So WordPerfect and all the different programs got pushed out of the way.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
So that was the basis.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
It wasn't going anywhere, but it scared markets.
Brian MattGUEST
I started in the corporate investor relations world.
Brian MattGUEST
I've been in and around investor relations since 1998, back in the days when you would – print out your 80-column press release in WordPerfect, you'd walk it over to the fax machine, you blast fax it out to your analysts, and they'd fill it in in Lotus 1-2-3 after that.
Brian MattGUEST
So technology has changed.
Brian MattGUEST
Obviously, the process of building trust with investors that you referred to in the intro really hasn't changed that much.
Brian MattGUEST
So I got involved in that space, built some platforms that helped look at how investors make those voting decisions, as well as looked at sustainability-focused portfolio space and how companies fit in those portfolios.
Brian MattGUEST
Then joined, did bespoke work for companies, did consulting work from 18 to 21, then joined the New York Stock Exchange in 2021, to work with our listed company, Sustainability Leaders, as well as other things that we're doing at Intercontinental Exchange.
Doug ChiaHOST
You mentioned WordPerfect and Lotus 1, 2, 3, and I was like, whoa.
Doug ChiaHOST
Yeah.
Jason PearmanHOST
So-
Jake Hirsch-AllenGUEST
Particularly in the era of national sovereignty, right? Where I remember being at Global Affairs, one of those summers I was talking about, we were going from WordPerfect to Microsoft Word, right? So we were going from a Canadian software solution to what is now locked in, not just in terms of our Office software, but also the servers in the cloud that we claim we're gonna try to build a Canadian national or sovereign cloud, but good luck because we are so embedded in the Microsoft and AWS and Google ecosystems or software systems that, and hardware systems, that it is gonna be extraordinarily difficult to extricate ourselves.
Jake Hirsch-AllenGUEST
And even if WordPerfect was a less powerful software solution, maybe it was important that we again had that friction which empowered a Canadian company and kept the data with us, and that we were proud of that, as opposed to wanting the fastest, most powerful thing that was owned by our neighbors to the south.
Jason PearmanHOST
Fascinating.
Jason PearmanHOST
So if I'm, if my notes are, are following, if you're looking at really valuable capacity building interventions, you're starting with the basics, like you're doing some adult learning.
Priti SaraswatGUEST
So-
David CowanHOST
So if you're listening and you're, and, and you're kinda curious to know, like, what, you know, how is, how is the past similar or different than where we are right now? I mean, I've, I've been through four transformations in the, in the business world, you know, where once upon a time there was a secretarial pool and a word processing pool, and everybody could do their own typing and their own spreadsheets, and we went from WordPerfect to Word, and then that created email, and email created ESI, and ESI created e-discovery.
David CowanHOST
E-discovery to legal ops, legal ops to where we are right now.
David CowanHOST
Like, this is the impact, and the transitions and transformations are eerily familiar of something from nothing, and it's like, okay, let's figure that out.
Adam EngstGUEST
Okay.
Adam EngstGUEST
And she was converting her thesis from Multimate to WordPerfect on a PC.
Adam EngstGUEST
You had to have your dissertation in WordPerfect format for the thesis secretary.
Adam EngstGUEST
And this turned out to be a non-trivial conversion.
Adam EngstGUEST
And I was in charge of a computer room for the summer with almost nothing happening.
Adam EngstGUEST
So she would come in and I would go and sit down and help her, you know, like explain to her how to do this stuff because converting files was a non-trivial process back then.
Adam EngstGUEST
And getting all of the code, like the hidden codes right in WordPerfect.
Adam EngstGUEST
That was actually the real problem was the codes were really messed up in WordPerfect.
Chris CooperHOST
VHS was cheaper because they could be, and also they had more selection, and also there was a lot more of them around.
Chris CooperHOST
Another example, a little bit more recent, is WordPerfect versus Microsoft Word.
Chris CooperHOST
Through the 1980s, WordPerfect was the word processor that professionals trusted, and it's what I used all the way through high school, and you probably did too.
Chris CooperHOST
WordPerfect was way more powerful.
Chris CooperHOST
It was more precise.
Chris CooperHOST
It was dominant in the legal and corporate markets.
Chris CooperHOST
Microsoft owned Windows, the operating system that nearly every business PC ran on, and they just bundled Word into it.
Chris CooperHOST
First, it was loosely done, and then they put it tightly into the Office suite at a price that no standalone competitor like WordPerfect could match.
Jake Hirsch-AllenGUEST
I remember being at Global Affairs.
Jake Hirsch-AllenGUEST
One of those summers I was talking about, we were going from WordPerfect to Microsoft Word, right? So we were going from a Canadian software solution to what is now locked in, not just in terms of our office software, but also the servers in the cloud that we claim we're going to try to build a Canadian national or sovereign cloud.
Jake Hirsch-AllenGUEST
But good luck because we are so embedded in the Microsoft and AWS and Google ecosystem ecosystems or software systems and hardware systems, that it is going to be extraordinarily difficult to extricate ourselves.
Jake Hirsch-AllenGUEST
And even if WordPerfect was a less powerful software solution, maybe it was important that we again had that friction which empowered a Canadian company and kept the data with us and that we were proud of that as opposed to wanting the fastest, most powerful thing that was owned by our neighbors to the south.
Jason PearmanHOST
Fascinating.
Jason PearmanHOST
So if I'm, my notes are following.
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