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The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 8:25 David Rosenthal Finally, in 19 oh five, there are 19 fatalities in intercollegiate football in the U.S., and a serious injury at Harvard to one Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of sitting president Theodore Roosevelt.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:15:47 David Rosenthal So there was a Turkish engineer who worked for Google named Orkut Bukokhtin, and his passion was social networking, and Friendster was a thing at the time, and so January, 2004, before Gmail, before the Google IPO, before Facebook launches…
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 33:06 David Rosenthal Slack moves to Harvard where he of course meets Neil and starts working with Meditech.
- ▶ 33:24 David Rosenthal Is the same thing that the people at Harvard and MGH really want is this integrated system where they can get longitudinal patient records across the continuum of care and that they can use to bill the payers.
- ▶ 2:45:20 David Rosenthal So after the DoD deal, Epic wins Partners Healthcare in Boston, which is the sort of new entity of Harvard and Mass General, MGH, and like the original.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 7:55 David Rosenthal He gets accepted to Harvard.
- ▶ 7:58 David Rosenthal So, he goes to the US, he goes to college at Harvard.
- ▶ 8:07 David Rosenthal Morris says much later, my reaction entering Harvard was sheer ecstasy, almost disbelief.
- ▶ 8:54 David Rosenthal But he does end up fleeing Harvard, as we'll get into.
- ▶ 9:00 David Rosenthal He was so overjoyed to be there, but he realizes he has kind of a new problem in America and at Harvard.
- ▶ 9:38 David Rosenthal And what does Harvard turn out?
- ▶ 9:52 David Rosenthal But Harvard actually didn't have an undergrad engineering program at the time.
- ▶ 9:59 David Rosenthal If you're really, really focused, you're probably gonna go down the street in Cambridge from Harvard.
- ▶ 2:05:49 David Rosenthal Maybe the best thing that could happen is my carve out a while back was the book by the Harvard, chair of the Harvard astrophysics department about
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:33 David Rosenthal You know, it's like the Zuckerberg story of going to Harvard.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 22:21 David Rosenthal Mark is going to go off to college at Harvard in the fall.
- ▶ 22:24 David Rosenthal But Mark is not just like any student coming into Harvard.
- ▶ 22:42 David Rosenthal He goes off to Harvard.
- ▶ 23:12 David Rosenthal And his older sister, Randy, was already there at Harvard.
- ▶ 23:16 Ben Gilbert So, clearly, gonna go to Harvard if he wants.
- ▶ 23:24 David Rosenthal Harvard, it's the best.
- ▶ 23:35 Ben Gilbert Got into Harvard, and then kind of goes back to doing something else on his computer.
- ▶ 24:04 David Rosenthal Whether he goes to Harvard, doesn't go to Harvard, goes to college, doesn't go to college, it's just not that big a deal to him, I don't think.
- ▶ 24:22 David Rosenthal So Mark gets to Harvard in fall of 2002, and you know, like you said, he goes to class, he does well, but
- ▶ 25:05 David Rosenthal I think, um, they probably do not have the same, uh, generous leave policy there that Harvard does.
- ▶ 25:10 Ben Gilbert Because Harvard's is weird, right?
- ▶ 31:16 David Rosenthal He was looking about the projects at Harvard he did that we're about to talk about.
- ▶ 31:53 David Rosenthal So Mark is focused, heading into his sophomore year at Harvard, and he's not focused on classes, he's focused on projects.
- ▶ 33:13 David Rosenthal And it takes Harvard by storm.
- ▶ 33:27 Ben Gilbert I was literally texting my friend yesterday who was at Harvard at this time, and she said, oh, yeah, people totally chose their classes based on who was in them.
- ▶ 34:28 David Rosenthal Hot or Not for Harvard, with a couple, like, actually interesting mechanical twists on it.
- ▶ 36:37 David Rosenthal One, gosh, if Mark was blown away by the engagement of the Harvard population with CourseMatch, Facemash takes that to such a whole nother level that it actually melts down the servers in Kirkland House, and the IT department at Harvard…
- ▶ 36:57 David Rosenthal All of Kirkland House, lest this, like, continue to spread virally within Harvard and take down, like, all of the servers.
- ▶ 39:30 David Rosenthal Yeah, Harvard, as you imagine, is not pleased about this.
- ▶ 39:33 David Rosenthal They hallmark in front of the administrative board, which is a disciplinary committee for students when things like this happen.
- ▶ 40:17 David Rosenthal So Mark doesn't end up getting kicked out of Harvard, but he does kind of end up becoming, like, the Harvard computer celebrity, even before Facebook.
- ▶ 40:32 Ben Gilbert A lot of people already knew about CourseMatch anyway, so he's now the guy who can make websites and web applications here at Harvard that people use.
- ▶ 40:41 David Rosenthal And it just so happens that there is a group of upperclassmen at Harvard,
- ▶ 40:45 David Rosenthal Led by two twins, the Winklevoss twins, who have an idea to digitize Harvard's Facebook and build an online version of it that they're thinking of calling the Harvard Connection.
- ▶ 41:13 David Rosenthal In fact, Harvard itself had this idea.
- ▶ 41:16 David Rosenthal The IT department at Harvard had been promising for years and talking about how they were going to build a digital version of the Harvard Facebook.
- ▶ 43:32 David Rosenthal So this takes us to Harvard's Christmas break.
- ▶ 43:34 David Rosenthal Now at the time, Harvard did final exams for the fall semester after Christmas break in January.
- ▶ 48:51 David Rosenthal So once again, registration is limited to email addresses on the harvard.edu domain.
- ▶ 49:06 David Rosenthal It's other people at Harvard.
- ▶ 50:02 David Rosenthal So no pre-population with anything from Harvard, you know, no scraping from Harvard servers, etc.
- ▶ 50:43 David Rosenthal On the other hand, other students and your friends at Harvard knowing your cell phone number, well, that's actually pretty useful for getting in touch, for going out, for going to parties, for planning things, et cetera, et cetera.
- ▶ 52:15 David Rosenthal Once Mark launches this, it takes off like wildfire within Harvard.
- ▶ 52:32 David Rosenthal There's only 2000 people in a class at Harvard, so I think there's about seven or 8000 undergraduates total.
- ▶ 53:38 David Rosenthal When you join the Facebook, even though it's limited to just Harvard students,
- ▶ 54:15 David Rosenthal Here's another thing that I think was really important about this seeding of Facebook, was actually that it happened at Harvard.
- ▶ 54:23 David Rosenthal Harvard is the top global brand among universities.
- ▶ 54:28 David Rosenthal Whatever you personally think about Harvard, it's undeniable, especially back then, that it was, like, the top.
- ▶ 54:35 David Rosenthal If you were a kid or a family pretty much anywhere in the world, you knew what Harvard was.
- ▶ 54:53 Ben Gilbert And even if they were as good as what Mark had built, they didn't start at Harvard.
- ▶ 55:30 Ben Gilbert Ok, so, like, weeks go by, and they've saturated Harvard.
- ▶ 56:05 Ben Gilbert And so you have this crazy situation at Harvard where it's just like, to your point, nuclear reactor levels engaging.
- ▶ 56:44 David Rosenthal So, yeah, this hits Harvard like an earthquake.
- ▶ 58:09 David Rosenthal So one of Mark's fraternity brothers in AEPI is a guy named Eduardo Saverin, and Eduardo was, I think, part of the business and investing club at Harvard, so they recruited Eduardo in,
- ▶ 58:44 David Rosenthal Right away, as we were saying, Mark's like, great, this is not just a Harvard thing.
- ▶ 1:00:11 David Rosenthal The other interesting thing about going to Columbia, which they do three weeks after the launch at Harvard, 22 days.
- ▶ 1:00:24 David Rosenthal They set up Columbia as a completely different network than Harvard.
- ▶ 1:00:30 David Rosenthal So if you join the Columbia Facebook, you can't then go access all the profiles of Harvard students.
- ▶ 1:00:49 David Rosenthal The best way to do that is to have all this alive content come right to them from Harvard.
- ▶ 1:00:56 David Rosenthal I think he realized that had he done that, it would have socially inhibited sharing within Harvard.
- ▶ 1:03:21 David Rosenthal Okay, fun bit of trivia about Harvard's leave policy that we referenced earlier.
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 1:04:21 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.
- ▶ 1:05:41 David Rosenthal Meanwhile, here we are at the end of the school year, the Winklevoss twins take the whole ConnectU situation to Harvard's president, Larry Summers, to adjudicate this dispute between them and Mark.
- ▶ 1:05:52 David Rosenthal Larry says, hey, Harvard is not gonna get involved here.
- ▶ 1:13:56 David Rosenthal So, rewind slightly back to the spring of 2004, when the team is still at Harvard.
- ▶ 1:15:07 David Rosenthal They set up a dinner in New York City, this is while the spring semester is still going on at Harvard, and Mark and Eduardo and Sean all get dinner together, and
- ▶ 1:28:41 David Rosenthal He goes back to Harvard and starts his junior year.
- ▶ 1:28:45 David Rosenthal Chris Hughes also goes back to Harvard, starts his junior year, graduates in 2006, and then rejoins Facebook after graduation.
- ▶ 1:28:55 David Rosenthal Andrew McCollum stays in Palo Alto for a couple years, and then goes back to Harvard later and completes his degree.
- ▶ 1:35:02 Ben Gilbert In fact, Excel had limited partners drop out of this fund, who were LPs previously, including your beloved Princeton, including Harvard.
- ▶ 2:08:12 David Rosenthal Boz was two years ahead of Mark at Harvard and had actually been Mark's TA in the Intro to Artificial Intelligence CS class that he took.
- ▶ 3:48:23 David Rosenthal So Mark goes to someone within the company who he knows can just ship and get stuff done, and that is Boz, Andrew Bosworth, his old TA from Harvard.
- ▶ 5:52:57 David Rosenthal Are you gonna talk about Mark's amazing line from the Harvard CS-Fifty lecture in like, 2005?
- ▶ 5:53:11 David Rosenthal He gets invited back to do a guest lecture as like a practitioner in the field at Harvard CS-fifty class, and he's talking about product strategy, and he talks about how he really admires Microsoft's product strategy, and he thinks it…
- ▶ 6:12:09 Ben Gilbert And so, while I think it is totally fair to say, wow, it just like blew up at Harvard, Facebook is the story of 50 different growth tactics in different eras, all carefully constructed and iterated upon.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 33:27 David Rosenthal So in the fall of 1973, Bill goes off to college at Harvard, famously.
- ▶ 33:32 David Rosenthal It's funny, at Harvard, you know, kind of like Jim Simons that we talked about at MIT on the Rentech episode.
- ▶ 33:52 Ben Gilbert And Paul says, when it came to higher mathematics, he might have been one in a 100,000, or better, but there were people who were one in a million, or one in ten million, and some of them wound up at Harvard.
- ▶ 34:11 David Rosenthal So while Bill's at Harvard, he's
- ▶ 34:32 David Rosenthal He's in a final club, which is like a big thing in the social scene at Harvard.
- ▶ 36:18 Ben Gilbert He went to Harvard because he felt like, hey, if I ever want to be a lawyer or something else, like, they've got a lot of great programs there.
- ▶ 44:29 David Rosenthal I'll just write an emulator on the Harvard PDP 10 for the ADD instruction set.
- ▶ 51:48 David Rosenthal So Bill stays at Harvard, but keeps cranking on enhancing the basic interpreter and adding more functions and functionality to the version of basic that they had just written for the Altair.
- ▶ 57:54 David Rosenthal Bill drops out of Harvard officially.
- ▶ 1:36:02 Ben Gilbert Bill really, really wanted to bring Steve on, knew him from the Harvard days, knew what an asset he could be.
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 17:19 David Rosenthal He bounces back to Boston, this time to Harvard as a professor there for a year.
- ▶ 20:14 David Rosenthal Kind of the appeal of going there was, hey, it's the same thing as being a professor at MIT or Princeton or Harvard or whatever, except you're doing code breaking instead of teaching,
- ▶ 35:13 David Rosenthal He's bounced out of Harvard.
- ▶ 35:49 David Rosenthal This is not Harvard.
- ▶ 37:06 David Rosenthal But the other part of it too is he's given such leeway and Stony Brook is so different from the politics of an MIT or a Harvard or a Princeton.
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 21:25 David Rosenthal So August is going to give a delayed series of lectures here at both Harvard and Yale.
- ▶ 21:30 David Rosenthal While they're in Boston at Harvard, they meet with a guy named Elliot Joslin, who, he's actually the inventor of the starvation diet.
- ▶ 3:02:11 Ben Gilbert I think it was out of Harvard, and at the time, the Novo Nordisk chief medical officer replied, we feel a responsibility for trying to prevent or eradicate diabetes, and if that means the dissolution of Novo Nordisk, that would be fine.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 20:22 David Rosenthal This was like Harvard and Facebook, because restaurants in Manhattan
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