Bill Gates
5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 26, 2018 by Chris Dixon · said 78 times in 43 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 13 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
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2024 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 49 mentions in 21 episodes 2 per episode
- Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- a16z Podcast | The Best Way To Be Smart ... Is To Not Be Stupid
- a16z Podcast | Build Your Personal Brand
- a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
- a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2017 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Bill Gates, oldest first
Jul 26, 2018
Dixon: Bill Gates omitted the word 'web' from his 1995 book
“You know, the idea that today was a fait accompli, and like, it's obvious, like Bill Gates wrote a book in 1995 called The Road Ahead predicting what's gonna happen in the future. It's 95. This is, you know, I think it was, this is well after Yahoo and Netscap…”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Wennmachers: Bill Gates successfully transformed his brand from hated to admired
“And then the example of someone whose brand has changed a lot for the better would be Bill Gates. If you know, some of you are too young, but like he was just particularly in Silicon Valley, but I think widely hated because of their hardcore business behavior.…”
Jan 2, 2019
Dixon: Bill Gates' 1995 book completely omitted the word 'web'
“Bill Gates wrote a book in 1995 called The Road Ahead predicting what's gonna happen in the future of 95. This is, you know, I think it was, this is well after Yahoo and Netscape and things like this, and the word, the web, did not appear in the book, right? T…”