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Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 32:21 Howard Schultz Bill Gates, senior.
- ▶ 32:34 David Rosenthal And Bill was six foot seven?
- ▶ 33:10 Howard Schultz I said, Mr.
- ▶ 33:33 Howard Schultz And Mr.
- ▶ 34:26 Howard Schultz Bill Gates, remember, he's a huge guy,
- ▶ 35:05 Howard Schultz We walk out, and I say to Mr.
- ▶ 35:10 Howard Schultz Yeah, I say to Mr.
- ▶ 36:31 Howard Schultz But the thing about Bill Gates is I saw him socially a hundred plus times.
- ▶ 37:21 Howard Schultz Bill Gates Senior never told a soul what he did for me.
- ▶ 37:30 Ben Gilbert And so were Bill Gates Senior and Bill Gates III investors in that 3.8 million dollar round?
- ▶ 37:36 Howard Schultz Bill Senior was, but I don't know if it was part of Bill or.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:48 David Rosenthal It's so confusing, because his dad is the second, but he goes by senior, and Bill is junior slash the third slash Trey.
- ▶ 3:55 David Rosenthal So Bill, in 1955, is born as the second of three children to Bill and Mary Gates.
- ▶ 4:01 David Rosenthal Now, Bill Gates, senior,
- ▶ 4:04 David Rosenthal His father is from Bremerton, the Navy town just across the sound from Seattle, where he grows up in a family that owns and runs a furniture store there.
- ▶ 4:18 David Rosenthal Now, Bill Gates, senior slash the second, after high school, he joins the army during World War II, serves during World War II, and then he goes, I presume, on the GI Bill to the University of Washington, where he's the first
- ▶ 4:42 David Rosenthal Now, I say family, because at the UW, he meets and marries one Mary Maxwell.
- ▶ 6:25 Ben Gilbert Absolutely, and Bill Gates Sr. was the prominent attorney in the region, and so it's quite the power couple.
- ▶ 6:34 David Rosenthal We don't want to give Bill Sr.
- ▶ 6:52 David Rosenthal And another fun fact that you probably know about Bill Gates Sr., but we gotta, that's being acquired, talk about.
- ▶ 7:07 Ben Gilbert Bill Gates Sr., we should say, too, basically galvanized the entrepreneurial community in Seattle.
- ▶ 25:40 David Rosenthal 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…
- ▶ 1:06:21 David Rosenthal There's the misaligned incentive, and there is the clause that Bill and Microsoft, and I presume Bill Sr., put in the original agreement.
- ▶ 4:18:21 Ben Gilbert Bill Gates Sr. was his mentor.