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Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:19:12 Ben Gilbert He said it basically came down to Seattle or Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:19:21 Ben Gilbert And in Seattle, we can be a little bit more removed, and we can announce things when we want to announce them.
- ▶ 1:19:32 Ben Gilbert There was a disadvantage to not being able to recruit from your competitors, but for a while, they were really the only game in town in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:19:56 David Rosenthal And the other thing that I think is really important to say that makes it work for Seattle in a way that I don't know that this could have worked in too many other places in the country is the university of Washington.
- ▶ 1:21:04 David Rosenthal But yeah, you cannot overstate how important the University of Washington was to this decision and an ultimate success of coming to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:21:13 David Rosenthal So this brings us to 1980, in the beginning of the year when they move to Seattle, just in time for, I think you can make a very strong argument, the single most important deal ever done in the history of technology.
- ▶ 1:25:17 Ben Gilbert In 1980, you've got the management team coming together with Steve and Bill and Paul Allen, and you've got the IBM thing going on, and you've got them moving to Seattle, and we haven't even talked about Charles Simone yet, but this was the…
- ▶ 1:31:05 David Rosenthal So, that company, the most valuable in the world, they're going to tiny little Microsoft that's just moved to Seattle for this partnership.
- ▶ 1:38:08 David Rosenthal Now, there was one off-the-shelf operating system out there from a company called Digital Research, which was run by Gary Kildall, who I think, as we talked about earlier, Bill and Paul had actually intersected with back in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:40:14 David Rosenthal IBM, that team from Project Chess, flies down, I think directly from Seattle, and talking with Bill and Steve, to Monterey, California, where Digital Research is based at this point, to meet with Gary and his wife Dorothy, who run the…
- ▶ 2:08:17 Ben Gilbert One of the partners and the founders at TVI flies up to Seattle, not to meet Bill Gates, but to meet Steve Ballmer.
- ▶ 2:12:52 Ben Gilbert I think part of it too had to do with the fact that Microsoft was up in Seattle.
- ▶ 2:13:09 Ben Gilbert Dave Marquardt, I think most weekends, is flying up to Seattle to hang out with Bill and Steve.
- ▶ 3:17:38 Ben Gilbert You get on I-ninety from Seattle, you drive for three days, and you're there.
- ▶ 3:29:40 Ben Gilbert Well, yeah, living in Seattle is quite helpful.
- ▶ 3:31:49 Ben Gilbert They also created an option pool where they were, uh, then creating opportunity for basically rewarding management, which is how there were 10,000 millionaires created in the Seattle area from Microsoft.
- ▶ 4:17:06 Ben Gilbert And, you know, being in Seattle, active in the venture community here, both through PSL and David, you're in my shared history at Madrona, me working at Microsoft, a lot of good opportunities to learn what really happened from folks.
- ▶ 4:19:51 David Rosenthal Speaking of strategy, Charles Fitzgerald, who's OG, OG Microsoft, and a great platform strategy guy, prolific angel investor in Seattle now.
- ▶ 4:20:21 Ben Gilbert Soma, Soma Sagar at Madrona is a, someone that David and I love crossing paths with in the Seattle entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:37:39 David Rosenthal Perfect for Seattle.
- ▶ 3:40:44 Ben Gilbert For listeners, Dave and Jenny lived in Seattle, and Jenny was involved in the ballet up here, and I went to an event held, you know, where the ballet performs, and it's immensely cool to be in there with the performers and at the place…
Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:06 David Rosenthal Yes, I purchased this holiday sweater at the Seattle Nordstrom for our 20 19 live show at the University of Washington.
- ▶ 6:32 Ben Gilbert And the way it's going to work, I'm transitioning to a venture partner at PSL, at Pioneer Square Labs here in Seattle, so still get to keep my board seats, which I think keeps me sharp for the show, and stay a friend of the family there,…
- ▶ 1:25:38 David Rosenthal I have a bunch more books to talk about later in the episode, but the one that I've gifted the most is a book called Transitions by William Bridges, which was first given to me by Ben and my good friend Mark in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:29:17 Ben Gilbert So living in Seattle, it rains all winter, or at least it's wet all winter, and there's a particular pair, I'm gonna look up what it actually is, so that if you wanna buy it, you can, called the Nike Men's Pegasus IV Gore-Tex.
- ▶ 2:14:07 Ben Gilbert We take it on a trail near our house in the, the Arboretum in Seattle.
- ▶ 2:20:34 Ben Gilbert Oh, while we're thanking Thought Partners, we should thank friend of the show, Mark Bridge, who is a good friend of mine up here in Seattle, a good friend of David's as well.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 58:55 David Rosenthal One of the people that gets put on that committee is the Bank of AmeriCard franchisee program manager from a small bank in Seattle
- ▶ 1:09:41 David Rosenthal He is running the Bank of Merit Card franchise program at what would become Rainier Bank in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:09:51 David Rosenthal He's not senior in a small bank in Seattle.
- ▶ 3:23:22 Ben Gilbert There's actually this really interesting weird deal that got cut between China UnionPay and Visa, where if you use a cup card in China, CUP, it uses the CUP rails, but if you go internationally where, like, there is no China UnionPay…
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:14 David Rosenthal So, Costco was founded, as many people know, in Seattle, lovely city of Seattle, in 1983 by retail veterans Jim Senegal and Jeffrey Brotman.
- ▶ 5:29 David Rosenthal Now, Jeff came from a long line of Seattle retailers.
- ▶ 13:23 David Rosenthal It's larger than Seattle.
- ▶ 57:20 Ben Gilbert So I got a bunch of great tidbits while I was hanging out in their campus outside Seattle that all.
- ▶ 1:07:55 David Rosenthal Another Bernie, this time a Seattle retailer named Bernie Brotman, and his son Jeff, call up Saul.
- ▶ 1:08:09 David Rosenthal We're retailers up in the Northwest, up in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:08:15 David Rosenthal A Price Club franchise in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:08:38 David Rosenthal We're gonna clone the Price Club model and start the same thing up in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:09:04 David Rosenthal Jeff Brotman cold calls Price Club's head of merchandising and says, hey, my family and us, we're starting up a Price Club clone up in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:10:00 David Rosenthal Jeff calls Jim, convinces him to come up to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:10:07 David Rosenthal So Jim moves up to Seattle, they start Costco, and the business plan is really pretty much exactly just Clone Price Club.
- ▶ 1:11:04 David Rosenthal So Jim moves up to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:11:45 David Rosenthal So within a couple months, they opened the first Costco warehouse in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:33:56 David Rosenthal The company's corporate headquarters was in Kirkland, Washington, right near Bellevue, right across the lake from Seattle, and so that's where the Kirkland Signature name came from.
- ▶ 1:34:36 Ben Gilbert Like, I didn't even put it together when I first moved to Seattle 12 years ago that the Kirkland over there was of Kirkland Signature, because Kirkland kind of just meant nothing to me.
- ▶ 2:03:13 Ben Gilbert It's sort of a sleepy story since it's tucked away in a Seattle suburb.
- ▶ 2:50:29 David Rosenthal So there's some fun Seattle history around this.
- ▶ 2:50:44 David Rosenthal Yeah, so Jim and Jeff Brotman, before he tragically too young passed away a few years ago, they would talk about this, especially Jeff and the Brotmans being Seattle retailers.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10 Ben Gilbert Today's episode is an interview with Uber CEO Dara Khazrashahi, where he joins us from the Acquired home studio in Seattle.
- ▶ 18:55 Ben Gilbert And it's a great Seattle success story.
- ▶ 39:38 David Rosenthal Happy in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:34:42 Ben Gilbert Funny, it's like you were just here next to me in Seattle, and now you're there in San Francisco.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:27:29 Ben Gilbert Yeah, starting way back in World War II, but I think continuing after that, in the Burbank facilities at Lockheed, I know Boeing in the Seattle area and other places too, built basically these burlap cities on top of factories that looked…
- ▶ 2:05:39 Ben Gilbert If you live in Seattle, go to the Museum of Flight.
- ▶ 2:49:57 Ben Gilbert In fact, for Seafair, here in Seattle, the last few years they've had an F-. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 14:32 Ben Gilbert I mean, I flew down here this morning from Seattle and like,
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 20:01 David Senra In Seattle.
- ▶ 38:37 Ben Gilbert And it's not just filled with, like, you know, Seattle's NFL fans.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 0:38 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 0:49 David Rosenthal But today, Ben, you are hosting me at your lovely home here in Seattle.
- ▶ 5:53 Ben Gilbert Like, there's two nights in Seattle here.
- ▶ 57:07 Ben Gilbert At this point, it's almost a MacGuffin, where, like, it's like Seattle's NBA team.
- ▶ 1:44:37 David Rosenthal It was somewhere up, uh, like North gate or somewhere like North of Seattle and like, but
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:54 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 1:45:06 Ben Thompson It's really interesting to consider, like, the different cultures between Seattle and San Francisco.
- ▶ 1:45:10 Ben Thompson Seattle just
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01 Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 0:40 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 0:55 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 11:05 Ben Gilbert Medina side, Seattle side, LA.
- ▶ 11:08 Peter Fenton We've been in LA, we've been in Seattle.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 0:54 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 1:04:21 Ben Gilbert And of course, then they get to Prime, and they get to Prime now, and now they're trying to do one day Prime, and all sorts of things can happen the same day if you're spoiled like me and live in Seattle.
- ▶ 3:10:51 Ben Gilbert Who you introduced me to in 2013, 20 14, when he was visiting Seattle.
- ▶ 3:11:03 Ben Gilbert Somewhere in Pioneer Square in Seattle.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 0:49 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 25:05 David Rosenthal Tim O'Reilly flies up to Seattle and meets with Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 27:12 David Rosenthal Uh, Tim and O'Reilly, he invites Tim up regularly to Seattle, has him speak at all hands within the company, evangelize this idea of web two dot O and APIs within Amazon.
- ▶ 1:11:02 David Rosenthal So Chris is actually from South Africa, and right around this same time, he and his family wanna move back to South Africa, leave Seattle, move back to Cape Town in South Africa.
- ▶ 1:12:41 David Rosenthal Bradstone writes in the everything store quote EC two was born in isolation with Pinkham talking to his colleagues in Seattle only sporadically
- ▶ 1:47:08 Ben Gilbert And of course, one of their buildings in Seattle is that, you know, when the sound waves like get bunched up or spread out, like when a siren goes by, it's the Doppler effect and redshift is the light equivalent.
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- ▶ 0:36 Ben Gilbert I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 0:26 Ben Gilbert Tom also had such a huge impact on Seattle and really the whole technology ecosystem helping to build the law firm Perkins Coie and the telecommunications firms Western Wireless and Macaw Cellular that really make up a large part of the…
- ▶ 1:38 Ben Gilbert I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
- ▶ 10:37 Ben Gilbert I had some conversation with you in maybe 20 14 about how you basically owned Amazon stock by owning Seattle real estate and you were doubly long Amazon with your very concentrated holdings in the company and owning your house in Seattle.
- ▶ 10:52 David Rosenthal The only time I've ever sold any meaningful amount was to buy our first Seattle house because I needed the capital for the down payment.
- ▶ 44:45 Ben Gilbert A convenient one-day drive or less half-day drive from Seattle.
- ▶ 47:45 Ben Gilbert Someone sort of just interviewed him right outside the conference.
- ▶ 1:01:15 Ben Gilbert Seattle's obviously one of them of a candidate city in part because of its proximity to Roseburg, Oregon.
- ▶ 1:01:24 Ben Gilbert But anyway, they end up deciding on Seattle.
- ▶ 1:06:18 David Rosenthal Seattle is the obvious choice.
- ▶ 1:06:31 Ben Gilbert Seattle's population has been going crazy, especially with people with unbelievably high disposable income, and so you would not want to in this day and age.
- ▶ 1:06:52 David Rosenthal Jeff had zero connection to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:06:56 David Rosenthal I was exactly the same way when I came to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:07:15 David Rosenthal And instead of going due west to California, they go northwest to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:09:41 David Rosenthal He's moving up to Seattle.
- ▶ 1:27:24 David Rosenthal This was the era of grunge in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:31:14 David Rosenthal So they raised that one million dollar round from a bunch of kind of local business folks in Seattle, of which Tom is one and one of the most involved in the company.