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Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 48:13 Erik Torenberg Patrick Coulson, you know, remarked a few years ago, he said, hey, it feels like there's less younger founders today, you know, in the way that Zuck, you know, in college building next Facebook or, or Gates, um, you know, in the same way…
The New Rule for Picking AI Winners | The a16z Show
- ▶ 30:16 David George You know, there's the Bill Gates quote, um, which is, you know, the, the value of a platform.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 11:35 Benedict Evans And in fact, literally quote Bill Gates.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 2:13 Erik Torenberg It's fascinating, because I, some people say, hey, you know, Bill Gates is so much richer than me, but he has the same phone that I have.
- ▶ 42:17 Erik Torenberg And then there are some people who seem to have pretty, like, uh, you know, Bill Gates has, like, you know, pretty big team, pretty big operation. 2 times in the scene
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 56:27 Erik Torenberg David, you recently tweeted that climate doomerism perhaps is giving way to AI doomerism based on, you know, Bill Gates recent comments.
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 33:42 Ben Horowitz Cause like in the whole Gates and Balmer era, they were never that good a partner to anybody.
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 47:00 Aaron Levie I think I got the Gates version of it.
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 16:32 Mark Cuban You know, the whole Bill Gates thing, you know, a quarter hour, dollar an hour, whatever.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 3:44 Balaji Srinivasan And actually, you know, the DC thing, I'm not sure this is apocryphal, but I remember, I think, Gates said something in the late nineties or early 2000, actually before the whole antitrust thing, which you guys actually had to go through,…
- ▶ 25:47 Steven Sinofsky Like you, you, no matter how many studies get done at HBS or at MIT Sloan, I, I literally went and when I was teaching at HBS, I spent hours in the library and pulled all these like papers with math and calculus and stuff in them that were…
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 11:28 Steven Sinofsky I was working for Bill way back then.
- ▶ 50:37 Steven Sinofsky Bill Gates used to always, always, always have to remind people that, you know, Microsoft, any day somebody could just show up and do a better version of everything Microsoft does, because it's software.
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 26:10 Steven Sinofsky What happened was I was going to all these meetings in the nineties with all these pocket protector AT&T people who would just show up and they would yell at Bill Gates, like QoS.
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 7:17 Marc Andreessen You know, this is the path that Gates and many others, you know, kind of, kind of, kind of carved out.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 20:32 Ben Horowitz Um, and, you know, I, you know, Bill Gates was a huge kind of champion of the inner information superhighway and, and specifically not the internet. 2 times in the scene
How Discord Became a Developer Platform
- ▶ 0:40 unnamed speaker Bill Gates once said that a platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates it.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 26:44 Chris Dixon Um, these, these platform decisions, I would actually argue, Ben, with respect to Microsoft, maybe this is a loaded topic with this group, but, uh, I would actually argue they're in some ways benign, relatively like Bill Gates always said…
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 2:32:58 Balaji Srinivasan So you have Larry Page in Google, you have Zuckerberg in Facebook, you have Steve Jobs in Apple, you have Bill Gates in Microsoft, you have Jeff Bezos in Amazon.
Explaining AI
- ▶ 9:08 Harry Shum Similarly, and Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, they are founders of those companies.
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 18:10 Marc Andreessen So, like, literally, like, the, the, the, the old, the old adage in, in, in, in tech in the nineties was when Andy Grove was running Intel and Bill Gates was running Microsoft, it was Andy Gibbeth in the form of Moore's law, and then Bill… 2 times in the scene
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 10:21 Steven Sinofsky And so, the thing was, is that, that McZ was just a little helper, and Karen had a broader vision for how all, oh, by the way, Karen's manager was, uh, Melinda French Gates, who ended up marrying Bill later on.
- ▶ 22:42 Frank Chen Well, like, was Phil G involved at all? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:02 unnamed speaker Memo to Bill Gates.
- ▶ 1:05:26 Steven Sinofsky Bill, you should really relax. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 2:28 Qasar Younis And then you think, well, in 2010, there's 11 to 12 excitement that just a few years later, 2015, 2016, nobody's, you know, writing objective C, these waves go really, really fast, and I think a good kind of, ah, adage, I think it was Bill…
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 7:15 Frank Chen When Bill invested.
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 4:43 Ben Horowitz You know, Bill Gates, or whoever it was, all the really giant successes were run by their founders, and the conventional wisdom in venture capital was set up to replace the founder.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 5:42 Brian McCullough Well, they were all planning to get together and make, you know, there, there was a million plans, a million meetings, and I say in the book, you know, Bill Gates took meetings with all and sundry from Barry Diller to whoever.
- ▶ 7:06 Brian McCullough So like, again, Bill Gates and Barry Diller, all of them, they weren't wrong. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 32:05 Chris Dixon Um, so the web, you know, and by the way, like, the, the other thing about the web is that, uh, you know, the, the idea that today was a fait accompli, and like, it's obvious, like, uh, Bill Gates wrote a book in 1995 called The Road… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 23:42 Sonal Chokshi This is that infamous Bill Gates biography story where, because his mom was on the board of United Way, she met the CEO of IBM, and then that meeting led to Microsoft and IBM striking a software deal that helped Microsoft in the early days.
a16z Podcast | The Case Against Education, From Signaling to Rainbow's End
- ▶ 17:40 Bryan Caplan And if you were just to average the hundred most successful tech people, Bill Gates and Zuckerberg could change the entire average of the whole distribution personally.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 27:50 Benedict Evans I mean, we have this kind of the story from the past of, you know, the Bill Gates memo about the internet and kind of Microsoft picked it up and pointed itself at something else.
a16z Podcast | Build Your Personal Brand
- ▶ 12:22 Margit Wennmachers And then the example of someone whose brand has changed a lot for the better would be Bill Gates. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
- ▶ 11:52 Joel Mokyr Now, that doesn't mean that new people coming out of nowhere or college dropouts, you know, like, you know, people like, like Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 8:28 Ezra Klein I've not finished my reporting here, so this is provisional, but, but Mark Andreessen, Bill Gates, there are a bunch of folks out there who are absolutely certain because they look around them that there is a tremendous advance in… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison
- ▶ 33:12 Ben Horowitz Bill Gates
a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
- ▶ 36:16 Chris Wanstrath It's evil, and, you know, Bill Gates is the Borg.
a16z Podcast | Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars!
- ▶ 14:42 Ben Horowitz How much more can Bill Gates take? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Best Way To Be Smart ... Is To Not Be Stupid
- ▶ 9:37 Tren Griffin And the key personality trait I've seen in, in what I've read about, but also what I've experienced in my life with people like Barksdale and McCaw and, and Bill Gates and others is they surround themselves with people who compliment their…
- ▶ 13:44 Tren Griffin And I've watched, uh, Bill Gates over the years.
- ▶ 16:54 Tren Griffin Was when Paul Allen and Bill Gates were in Harvard Square, and they saw the magazine, and they realized that Bill had to drop out of Harvard and start a company right then. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:17 Tren Griffin That's like, you know, Zuck or Gates or, you know, uh, the, the great entrepreneurs see this thing that isn't there yet.
a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
- ▶ 36:51 Sonal Chokshi So this is a notion where you talk about how, um, Steve Jobs and, and, and Gates dropped out of college in order to build these companies, but that's because they had the vision.
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 10:44 Marc Andreessen In fact, some fairly prominent people, uh, including Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking have been kind of going out basically saying it's time to start getting scared, uh, of the robots coming to first take your jobs, and then I guess eat…
- ▶ 45:36 Marc Andreessen Bill Gates is a great example of this.
a16z Podcast | The Internet is His Religion
- ▶ 4:14 Jim Gilliam So, um, they killed the deal, um, because of, um, IBM didn't want to mess up the relationship with, uh, this new guy, Bill Gates, um, or his, uh, company, Microsoft.
a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- ▶ 1:05 Steven Sinofsky You know, my old boss Bill Gates was famous for how many things he could squeeze into an eight bit byte of basic, you know, over the weekend.
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 37:39 unnamed speaker This is Bill Gates.
Crypto and Decentralization: Building Blocks
- ▶ 31:19 Chris Dixon Uh, you know, the, the idea that today was a fait accompli, and like, it's obvious, like, uh, Bill Gates wrote a book in 1995 called The Road Ahead, uh, predicting what's gonna happen in the future.
Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs
- ▶ 10:46 Alex Rampell So about a year ago, I had dinner with Bill Gates, and I was like, oh, this is my idol. 3 times in the scene
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 3:17 Benedict Evans If you think in terms of valuation, back in 1995, when Bill Gates was on every magazine cover on Earth, Microsoft was actually not the biggest company on the stock exchange.
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 8:40 Marc Andreessen You know, it's not an accident that there's the Jim Clark building, right, and there's the Jerry Yang building, and there's the, you know, there's the Bill Gates building, and, you know, it's just building after building after building.