Bill Gates

“In every dimension, wealth, power, control, philanthropy, impact. John D makes like, you know Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg look like just children.”

“I think I read a few places they make about 20,000 dollars in revenue from it.”

“Initially, it's sixty-forty ownership. Bill is 60%. Paul is 40%. Later, it gets changed to Bill is 64%, and Paul is 36%.”

“Steve is the guy that outscored Bill Gates on the Putnam exam.”

“He was the number one math student in the state of Washington.”

“And Bill now, who's the de facto leader of this group, he negotiates a deal with the help of his dad, Bill Gates Sr., prolific corporate attorney in Seattle, that rather than just being paid hourly for their time, they're gonna get a royalty on the revenue tha…”

“Steve Jobs Shows Bill Gates the Mac project in 1981. Three years before it ships. And Microsoft and Apple signed an agreement to work together on applications for it in 1982.”

“And that year, 1992, in October, is when Gates finally passes John Kluge, acquired OG fans. Back to the LVMH episode. Gates passes John Kluge of Metro Media fame. Media mogul to become the wealthiest person in America”

“So Dave had watched Bill present many years earlier at none other than the Homebrew Computer Club At Stanford. Yes! The very place that is part of the Apple lore with Jobs and Woz showing off the early Apple computer. Apparently, Bill also went and made a pres…”

“In fact, it created some tension with Paul Allen, where Bill asked Paul if they could go to five percent. Paul said sure, and then Bill actually offered him eight and a half percent, and Paul got upset, and Bill said, I'll eat the three and a half percent. It …”

“Bill did not know the whole story. He didn't know any of it. He didn't know what his father had done for me. He's hearing it for the first time.”

“In the hardcover version, there are three portions of the book where it is discussed. In the softcover version, the index for the internet takes up an entire page.”

“So on August 27th, Bill Gates is deposed by the DOJ's appointed prosecutor, David Boies, for 20 hours.”

“One of which was Bill Gates was always talking about mobile computing, so much so that in the key slide in the Windows XP presentation, one of the big bullet points is mobile computing. All the way back in 2001, and Gates thought natural user interfaces was go…”

“Steve Ballmer had to work at one company, and Bill Gates had to work at the other. They could not work at the same company. Each of those two, after they picked their companies, had to divest all of their shares From the one that was not their employer, so the…”

“So in June, 2006, when Bill announces his coming retirement, Ray gets named as his successor in the official chief software architect role.”

“Mark would actually say later that Bill saying that At the event was part of what got him comfortable doing the same thing.”

“Zuck, after all the 2016 election fallout, and the shift in public perception, and having to do all this testifying, Is like watching an alternate future for Microsoft where Bill Gates had decided to stay at the helm instead of leaving after the DOJ case.”

“Disagreed about whether we should do hardware. That was a big one. We did, you know, surface was a big disagreement. Phone, big disagreement. HoloLens. Big disagreement.”

“I also think we screwed that up. You can't have a long goodbye. Long goodbyes are not helpful.”

“I think it was basically from sometime in about March or April of 2000 to 2001. I mean, literally we weren't speaking. I didn't know what it meant to be his boss and he didn't know what it meant to work for me.”

“We've got to do all the software that these things will ever need. I mean, it was still of the mindset that said, and that there's an arrogance to that, and there's a hunger to that. That says there's just nothing we shouldn't do. And I don't think that was a …”

“Longhorn was a big mistake. I have to take accountability. I was a CEO. Bill's got to take a lot of accountability. And it was the mistake of mistakes.”

“Bill never went to a quarterly analyst call and I never went to a quarterly analyst call.”

“Later on at Sun Valley, Bill Gates lets it slip on a panel with Warren and Roberto and Don Keogh that Warren has always told Bill that Coca-Cola could be run by a ham sandwich.”