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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:55:21 Ben Gilbert And this is equivalent to Dave Cutler doing Windows NT.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 49:46 David Rosenthal But DEC, I mean, the company we talked all about in our Microsoft series, where Dave Cutler came from, wrote Windows NT, you know, legendary, legendary company.
- ▶ 1:00:40 David Rosenthal And Jeff is basically like Google's Dave Cutler.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 9:05 Steve Ballmer Very important in our story because Dave Cutler, who was kind of the father of NT, Windows NT, he came from digital equipment and they were, they were fighting.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 33:48 Steve Ballmer Dave Cutler had been the, uh, architect of the VMS operating system for digital equipment.
- ▶ 33:53 Steve Ballmer And, you know, we had DOS and windows and whenever talking to Cutler about coming here, he says, I don't want to work any toy operating systems.
- ▶ 34:03 Steve Ballmer And I had to say to Dave, good thing, cuz we have a toy operating system.
- ▶ 34:09 Steve Ballmer But Dave is the key to getting us there.
- ▶ 1:18:52 Steve Ballmer Let's go get Cutler.
- ▶ 1:18:55 Steve Ballmer Let's just go get Cutler.
- ▶ 1:18:56 Steve Ballmer So I say, okay, we've got to get Cutler on it.
- ▶ 1:18:58 Steve Ballmer And Cutler and I have a great relationship.
- ▶ 1:19:03 Ben Gilbert He's still writing code at Microsoft.
- ▶ 1:19:05 Steve Ballmer He's still writing code at Microsoft.
- ▶ 1:19:06 Steve Ballmer But I mean, you know, Cutler and I have been to basketball game together.
- ▶ 1:19:13 Steve Ballmer So, but you know, Cutler's, he's a hard ass at work.
- ▶ 1:19:32 Steve Ballmer You know, it was great athlete in college, uh, two sports.
- ▶ 1:19:38 Steve Ballmer Uh, but anyway, so I get Cutler and there's a guy working in MSR who I think is underutilized to this guy, Amitabh.
- ▶ 1:19:48 Steve Ballmer I thought he was underutilized doing what he's doing, so grab him, grab Cutler, uh, bring them both onto this project.
- ▶ 1:20:21 Steve Ballmer so I get Cutler and Amitabh to go do this thing, and then Cutler brings some of his, I'll call gang, his favorite guys, he brings them over, because he's a magnet for talent, and we get started, and we made an explicit decision, and I…
- ▶ 1:28:26 Steve Ballmer If it was all, you know, all in server and tools, but, um, it was the right, it was the right thing to do, even though it was, quote, part of the future of servers, you know, it was the future of server and tools, essentially.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:54 David Rosenthal Ok, so we did talk last time about NT and Dave Cutler and the heroics that he performed to write NT.
- ▶ 3:42:01 David Rosenthal That's right, the legend himself, Dave Cutler.
- ▶ 3:42:05 Ben Gilbert No one builds hardcore, enterprise ready, close to the metal code than Dave.
- ▶ 3:42:14 Ben Gilbert Dave was the architect on Windows NT.
- ▶ 3:42:21 David Rosenthal Amitabh had also come from DEC, which is where Dave came from.
- ▶ 3:42:42 David Rosenthal Cutler builds a new hypervisor that Azure runs on from scratch without using open source like himself.
- ▶ 3:43:04 David Rosenthal It was a whole company building hypervisors, and Dave just was like, yeah,
- ▶ 3:44:11 Ben Gilbert The bigger concern is Ray Ozzie and Dave Cutler are working on this.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:10:16 David Rosenthal But then in October, 1988, as they're heading towards divorce, Microsoft hires Dave Cutler away from deck.
- ▶ 3:10:26 David Rosenthal And Dave is an absolute just beast and legend.
- ▶ 3:10:37 David Rosenthal Dave at DEC wrote the whole operating system that DEC ran on, Vax, and so poaching him away to come work at Microsoft, both like, he's the guy that's gonna build an enterprise-ready, take share away from
- ▶ 3:11:25 Ben Gilbert They've got DOS and early windows, which is essentially consumer targeted, but now they've got this guy, Dave.
- ▶ 3:11:32 David Rosenthal Now they've got Dave.
- ▶ 3:11:33 Ben Gilbert And we should say, Dave, this is really the first time they brought in someone who had real industry experience.
- ▶ 3:11:48 Ben Gilbert And Dave's like,
- ▶ 3:11:52 David Rosenthal I think it was Dave and also Mike Maples coming from IBM too.