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Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:36:06 Ben Gilbert Isn't that crazy to think at the same, you know, time that Bill Gates is toiling away in Albuquerque, you've got
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:38:53 David Rosenthal 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.
- ▶ 2:39:12 David Rosenthal Yeah, Roberto gets very offended and apparently never talks to Bill Gates again.
- ▶ 3:40:54 David Rosenthal And Bill.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 8:14 David Rosenthal He's interviewing Bill Gates at the Newsweek headquarters office in New York shortly after Gmail comes out, and then they started talking about Gmail, and Bill can't believe it.
- ▶ 8:50 David Rosenthal I mean, even freaking Bill Gates operates this way.
- ▶ 3:18:31 Ben Gilbert Right after the buzz failure, he is inspired to write this memo, kind of like the Bill Gates, 1995 internet memo.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 8:49 Ben Gilbert Or another reasonable comparison, the generation before Bill Gates.
- ▶ 12:27 Ben Gilbert I'm racking my brain, maybe Bill Gates and Paul Allen, but even then it became very clear very quickly, Bill Gates is the guy.
- ▶ 3:03:20 David Rosenthal Just like Bill and Paul and Microsoft, it was extremely rare that because Google never needed to raise VC money after the Series A, Larry and Sergey, together with the employees in the option pool, you know, controlled the majority of the…
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 2:35 Ben Gilbert He goes into why he stepped down as CEO, when he did, and he talks about his relationship with Bill Gates over the years.
- ▶ 11:28 Steve Ballmer But there are these guys down in Pacific Grove, California, you know, and Bill called Gary Kildall and said, there's some guys, they want to talk to you.
- ▶ 12:41 Steve Ballmer There was kind of a famous meeting amongst me and Paul, uh, and Bill and this guy, Kazuhiko Nishi, who ran our kind of affiliate in Japan.
- ▶ 19:18 Steve Ballmer I think I might've even been in the nineties and Bill
- ▶ 24:47 Steve Ballmer Bill's very frustrated with IBM.
- ▶ 24:53 Steve Ballmer And so Bill's pushing windows hard, but we still suspected OS two could be the winner because it came from IBM, but we couldn't just like stop for three or four years.
- ▶ 33:14 Ben Gilbert And to put a finer point on it, the thing that we said on our episode, and I'm curious if it's true or not, is this was not Bill's passion area, and you sort of raised your hand and said, I'll go figure out enterprise sales.
- ▶ 33:29 Steve Ballmer Bill's passion,
- ▶ 33:32 Steve Ballmer Bill had passions a lot of places, but you know, you'd say the apps group.
- ▶ 33:40 Steve Ballmer I'd say that's where, where a lot of bills brain cycles went, you know, I'd also hired Dave Cutler.
- ▶ 35:34 David Rosenthal Were you and Bill thinking this way in the eighties of like, hey, we need to be building up this muscle across all parts of computing and business computing?
- ▶ 35:48 Steve Ballmer Paul is the one who said, Bill said, we're never going to be a hardware company.
- ▶ 36:05 Steve Ballmer So, you know, Bill and I had a lot of the execution around that, but you know, that, that was the push.
- ▶ 42:12 Steve Ballmer And, uh, Bill and I, we'd always dreamed of this thing where you get some recurring revenue.
- ▶ 45:05 Steve Ballmer When we created Office, that bill really drove, drove that in a great, I mean, we're selling Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and then we put these things together, and people would complain, and we didn't always sell Office because people say,…
- ▶ 49:33 David Rosenthal We took that as a signal that Bill just didn't care about this stuff.
- ▶ 1:09:04 Steve Ballmer I think this is something both, both Bill and I debated not just with each other, but just
- ▶ 1:19:56 Steve Ballmer I think Bill, is Bill still with the company?
- ▶ 1:20:00 David Rosenthal He's about to transition.
- ▶ 1:20:02 Steve Ballmer He's about to leave, I think.
- ▶ 1:20:03 David Rosenthal I think he had probably told you that he was going to leave.
- ▶ 1:20:06 Steve Ballmer He had told me, but you know, talk about that, but he told me, but hadn't left yet, so he, like, he was involved until, until, until he left, and even then,
- ▶ 1:35:12 Steve Ballmer And I don't think that was a good mindset by the time I took over, and yet it was still sort of baked in with Bill, baked in with me.
- ▶ 1:47:31 Steve Ballmer Bill was not happy with the whole thing.
- ▶ 1:47:35 Steve Ballmer You know, Bill bore the weight of the antitrust thing very hard because for him, I think it also felt like a personal attack.
- ▶ 1:47:46 Steve Ballmer Bill
- ▶ 1:48:18 David Rosenthal You were gonna run one company and Bill was gonna run the other company.
- ▶ 1:48:32 Steve Ballmer I think the theory was I would run operating systems and Bill would take applications.
- ▶ 1:49:22 Steve Ballmer Bill and I always, so Bill and I, and then me and Bill, when I became CEO, we always were trying to tell people don't get our stock price too high.
- ▶ 1:49:45 Steve Ballmer I don't think Bill did, but essentially that was part of it.
- ▶ 1:49:58 Steve Ballmer As part of that whole theme, Bill never went to a quarterly analyst call and I never went to a quarterly analyst call.
- ▶ 1:50:58 Steve Ballmer I mean, this thing going on because Bill and Warren were, were very good friends, and Warren didn't go to quarterly calls, I don't think, and dah, dah, dah, dah.
- ▶ 1:56:00 Steve Ballmer That's where I moved back to be president of the company and then CEO and Bill
- ▶ 1:57:47 Steve Ballmer I mean, Bill was chief software architect, and I was very deferential then to, you know, sort of product direction from Bill.
- ▶ 1:58:04 Steve Ballmer Bill's got to take a lot of accountability.
- ▶ 1:58:10 Steve Ballmer And between the company, you know, Bill and I, to the
- ▶ 1:58:34 Steve Ballmer Bill was fine with Azure.
- ▶ 1:58:36 Steve Ballmer The cloud, Bill and I had agreed on in the nineties, right?
- ▶ 1:58:41 Steve Ballmer I think Energizer could have been Bill's idea, not mine.
- ▶ 1:58:43 Steve Ballmer Yeah, pretty sure it was Bill's idea, not mine.
- ▶ 1:58:45 Steve Ballmer I executed, but Bill's idea, not mine.
- ▶ 1:58:59 Steve Ballmer And I, I, you know, I, my gut, I was, you know, these are the smart technical guys, Bill, and so not, uh, and I'm trusting.
- ▶ 1:59:15 Steve Ballmer I mean, was it the, and this is not directed at Bill personally, it's directed at all of this.
- ▶ 2:00:22 Steve Ballmer I just, between Bill and I am, you know, did we make some good decisions?
- ▶ 2:00:36 Steve Ballmer I would say there was probably a voraciousness misplaced by Bill and me.
- ▶ 2:01:04 Steve Ballmer Bill was already, you know, sort of talking to me about wanting, you know, wanting to be able to go, and in oh six, we announced that he was gonna go in oh eight.
- ▶ 2:01:41 Steve Ballmer I think I did some of my very best work after Bill left.
- ▶ 2:11:35 Steve Ballmer And, you know, Bill and I had all, continued to have all the tension we had about anything that had hardware in it.
- ▶ 2:13:12 Steve Ballmer So, and a lot of it has to do again with my relationship with Bill.
- ▶ 2:13:18 Steve Ballmer Cause you know, and look, I knew Bill didn't love the idea
- ▶ 2:16:29 Steve Ballmer Bill and I are, it's not really a board being disrespectful.
- ▶ 2:16:32 Steve Ballmer Like, eh, maybe it is, but it's mostly me and Bill.
- ▶ 2:26:50 Steve Ballmer And Charlie Munger comes up to him beforehand and to me, I know Charlie through Bill and Warren and says,
- ▶ 2:27:45 Steve Ballmer I don't know why Paul and Bill didn't hang on.
- ▶ 2:54:04 Steve Ballmer Bill did that programming.
- ▶ 2:58:22 Ben Gilbert Part one is basically the era where Bill Gates was CEO.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:05 David Rosenthal You should be getting some Bill Gates vibes here.
- ▶ 11:20 David Rosenthal Well, Jobs and Gates, well, the reason I said Gates is to sort of foreshadow some Microsoftian DNA and analogies that come into Epic here.
- ▶ 43:55 David Rosenthal They had kind of a cornered resource as a startup, you know, Microsoft did in Bill Gates and Paul Allen too, but Epic totally did too in Judy.
- ▶ 1:00:02 Ben Gilbert You made the Bill Gates comparison.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:03:35 David Rosenthal He goes to hear Bill Gates speak on campus.
- ▶ 1:03:40 David Rosenthal The same night, during which speech Bill mentions that he actually felt comfortable dropping out of Harvard because he discovered that Harvard had this really generous leave policy that you could take an infinite leave of absence and…
- ▶ 1:04:00 David Rosenthal And Mark would actually say later that Bill saying that
- ▶ 1:04:14 Ben Gilbert And so this would have been right after Bill stopped being CEO, handed the CEO reins to Steve.
- ▶ 1:04:21 Ben Gilbert He was still the chief architect and still chairman of the board, but it's sort of this, like, post-DOJ time for Microsoft where Bill is just technically focused and can do things like go speak at Harvard.
- ▶ 1:29:02 David Rosenthal He takes the, uh, you know, Bill Gates road not traveled option.
- ▶ 5:51:30 Ben Gilbert Which is unbelievably Gatesian.
- ▶ 5:51:33 Ben Gilbert I feel like we said the exact same line about Bill Gates
- ▶ 5:52:19 Ben Gilbert It's Gatesian.
- ▶ 5:52:33 Ben Gilbert 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.
- ▶ 5:52:50 David Rosenthal And Bill came out of it and said, Steve, you're the CEO now.
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:24:46 Ben Gilbert Apple, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Jensen.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 12:08 David Rosenthal There's all these spy shots of Bill meeting with John Malone at TCI and Gerald Levin at Time Warner, and Bill starts spending time with Michael Ovitz talking about how Microsoft can get in on the content game too, either through the MSN…
- ▶ 13:06 David Rosenthal So, Bill actually decides at this point that he needs to write a book for the public to evangelize this information superhighway thing.
- ▶ 13:37 David Rosenthal The hardcover copy is all about the information superhighway, or as Bill likes to call it, information at your fingertips.
- ▶ 14:34 David Rosenthal In January, 1994, when a young Windows networking engineer named James Allard, or J as he goes by, writes a memo to Bill Gates and to the senior leadership
- ▶ 16:53 David Rosenthal Then, and this sort of exponential growth theme, the very next month, in February, 1994, Bill's technical assistant slash shadow, which is a legendary role at Microsoft, now exists at Amazon, too, a man named Steven Sinofsky goes on a…
- ▶ 18:15 David Rosenthal He gets so excited that he writes another memo to Bill and the leadership team entitled Cornell is Wired!
- ▶ 18:44 David Rosenthal And Bill has a great quote.
- ▶ 18:52 David Rosenthal So Stephen and Bill organize an internet offsite, quote unquote, with all the top execs, with Jay, Bill, Stephen, everybody who's investigating this internet thing.
- ▶ 19:13 David Rosenthal And at this offsite, Bill totally gets religion that the internet, as Jay said in his initial memo, is actually an exponential phenomenon.
- ▶ 19:24 David Rosenthal And as Bill puts it to the team gathered there and then the whole company later,
- ▶ 23:58 David Rosenthal Clearly Bill Gates is paying attention here.
- ▶ 28:24 David Rosenthal So Bill Gates and Steven Stanofsky, they go and meet with Booklink in May of 1994.
- ▶ 30:12 Ben Gilbert So, as with all of these things, it's not just like Bill Gates and Steven Sanofsky are having a think, and the rest of Microsoft is sitting around waiting for the think to finish, and then an edict comes down, and then they go and do the…
- ▶ 35:19 David Rosenthal And in the spring leading up to all this, Bill writes another memo.
- ▶ 38:46 Ben Gilbert Bill Gates famously says, and when I say famously, it's because the Department of Justice later grabbed this quote and used it as an exhibit.
- ▶ 38:54 Ben Gilbert Bill writes, a new competitor born on the Internet is Netscape.
- ▶ 41:43 David Rosenthal And then, on December seventh, 1995, Bill Gates announces that Internet Explorer is now free, and it will be bundled in with every single copy of Windows 95 going forward.
- ▶ 45:00 David Rosenthal And Bill Gates shows up on the satellite feed.
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