Seattle, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Seattle comes up
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 51:24 David Rosenthal Because we had started in Seattle, and you still live in Seattle, and you had worked at Microsoft, when we started our Microsoft journey, we knew some people.
- ▶ 1:47:10 David Rosenthal We had been, um, we did a show in Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, but it was one section.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:24:49 Ben Gilbert Amazingly, all the Charles Shaw are the same price, and at Seattle Trader Joe's it was three 99, which, come on, it's supposed to be two buck chuck, but inflation kills ya.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:08:14 Ben Gilbert Which we should say is right around the same time as BERT and right around the same time as another large language model based on the Transformer out of here in Seattle, the Allen Institute.
- ▶ 2:12:18 David Rosenthal They're both in Seattle.
- ▶ 2:15:47 Ben Gilbert Data scientists around Seattle were talking about this cool.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40:59 David Rosenthal Tim, of course, was head of sales at Google for many years, and we were asking Tim about DoubleClick, and he was like, well, I was close with the DoubleClick guys, and I wanted to meet with them here in kind of late 2006, early 2007, and…
- ▶ 1:41:22 David Rosenthal Actually, we're in Seattle, too, right now.
- ▶ 1:41:33 Ben Gilbert They're in Seattle.
- ▶ 1:41:34 David Rosenthal Why are they in Seattle?
- ▶ 1:41:36 David Rosenthal There is only one reason why the double click guys are going to be in Seattle.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 0:18 David Rosenthal There's no Seattle basketball team.
- ▶ 11:46 Steve Ballmer And in the meantime, there was a company here in Seattle called Seattle Computer Products that had a little CPM clone.
- ▶ 2:56:47 David Rosenthal Meaningful for you personally, but when we started the show in Seattle in.
- ▶ 2:56:59 David Rosenthal This is what we all talked about at Madrona or Seattle and the tech ecosystem.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:08:57 Ben Gilbert I used it as a part of prepping for this episode to join all my MyChart accounts across the three health systems I have in Seattle.
- ▶ 3:17:04 Ben Gilbert There's one institution in Seattle that I go to for my son's food allergies.
- ▶ 3:17:21 Ben Gilbert I'm sure everyone else in Seattle is like, why don't you just do the thing that all the other big hospitals do so that it's all the same platform?
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:25:54 Ben Gilbert He is, of course, a partner at Madrona Venture Group here in Seattle, and a former Microsoft exec who helped us on those episodes, too.
TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired
- ▶ 2:21:11 Ben Gilbert Well, David and I are coming at you now from our home studios back in Seattle and San Francisco.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 2:14:48 Ben Gilbert Up here in Seattle, there's a lot of people spinning out of Microsoft, starting companies.