Company

Microsoft

Type: public
Ticker: MSFT · NASDAQ
Market value: $3.5T

Microsoft is public, listed as MSFT on NASDAQ, in Technology and media.

What it sells: LinkedIn, Teams, Xbox, Microsoft 365 Family, OneDrive.

In the language of this map it serves 4 solutions — Job boards and professional networks, Remote and hybrid work, Video games and Photo storage and sharing — which between them relieve 5 human frictions.

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Sells

Job boards and professional networksEarly adulthood
Remote and hybrid workParenthood
Video gamesChildhood
Photo storage and sharingParenthood

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

Get a job without having had oneEarly adulthood
Space was bought with hours on the roadParenthood
The child must play, and cannot be left to do it aloneChildhood
Fill the hours that work and care do notAcross every phase
Childhood passes; someone must keep itParenthood

Trends favouring it

Generative AI and agentsCompounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data.
Remote and hybrid workAlready large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens.
Quantum computingReal but not yet at scale. The effects described are expected rather than observed.
Clinician shortages and AI in medicineCompounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data.

Trends pressuring it

Antitrust and platform regulationDirection genuinely disputed. Reasonable people expect opposite outcomes.