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Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:08:12 Ben Gilbert So even a whole year before, in the fall of 1980, Dave Marquardt
- ▶ 2:08:51 Ben Gilbert And I know all this because there's a great oral history from the Computer History Museum where this whole thing's in a transcript with an interview with Dave Marquardt kind of recalling the whole thing.
- ▶ 2:08:59 Ben Gilbert So Dave flies up to meet with Steve and Steve says, you're asking really interesting questions.
- ▶ 2:09:25 Ben Gilbert He's just laying out the strategy and grilling Dave and talking about software the whole time.
- ▶ 2:09:34 Ben Gilbert And Dave's remarking at this point in 1980, they're doing five million in revenue, two to three million in profit.
- ▶ 2:10:52 Ben Gilbert So Dave is only 29 years old, but everyone else is like 23, and so he actually is kind of adult supervision.
- ▶ 2:11:26 David Rosenthal They liked Dave, but also a big part of it was this was a catalyzing function to do the conversion into a C Corp.
- ▶ 2:11:38 Ben Gilbert Now, Bill, of course, I think is still the controlling shareholder just by the amount of stock that he owns, but there's a board, it's Bill, and it's Dave, and it's Kay Nishi.
- ▶ 2:12:35 Ben Gilbert Dave charmed them.
- ▶ 2:12:37 David Rosenthal And I've always heard wonderful, wonderful things about Dave, and I think everybody really did love him and see his value.
- ▶ 2:12:58 Ben Gilbert And Dave was young, and he was single.
- ▶ 2:13:09 Ben Gilbert Dave Marquardt, I think most weekends, is flying up to Seattle to hang out with Bill and Steve.
- ▶ 2:15:12 David Rosenthal And they poach Charles, perhaps with Dave Marquardt's help, away from the legendary Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox PARC.
- ▶ 3:32:53 Ben Gilbert I think Dave got some more shares from being on the board.
- ▶ 4:07:57 Ben Gilbert Do you know where Dave Marquardt from TVI first encountered Bill Gates?
- ▶ 4:08:07 Ben Gilbert So Dave had watched Bill present many years earlier at none other than the Homebrew Computer Club
- ▶ 4:08:24 Ben Gilbert Apparently, Bill also went and made a presentation there and would hang out there, and that is where Dave first came across him.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 18:50 Ben Gilbert , it was Dave Marquardt, right, who made that investment in Microsoft and was sort of the leader of TVI?
- ▶ 18:57 David Rosenthal I think he was part of the sort of second generation.
- ▶ 24:52 David Rosenthal Dave Marquardt, who we had talked about earlier from TVI.
- ▶ 25:00 David Rosenthal After GSP, Bob goes into consulting at Boston Consulting Group, and then Dave invites him to come back and join TVI.
- ▶ 28:35 Ben Gilbert It's worth noting that Dave does after TVI go on to found August Capital.
- ▶ 29:07 Ben Gilbert Before we actually get into the formation of Benchmark here, it is worth lingering on Dave and TVI and the Microsoft investment for one more moment.
- ▶ 29:15 Ben Gilbert When I was looking up what the terms of the deal were for the Microsoft investment, there's some interesting color shared by Dave about his style of investing, and you can see that the seeds of Benchmark really were present in TVI's…
- ▶ 29:33 Ben Gilbert So here's an excerpt from Dave Marquardt.
- ▶ 29:43 Ben Gilbert He says he would never consider adding a value-added service.
- ▶ 30:08 Ben Gilbert That could have been a benchmark partners quote, but it was Dave Marquardt when he was at TVI.