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Building Scalable Venture Strategies with James Paul Costa of Grapetree Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 37:05 James Paul Costa I also helped launch Alienware, one of their first guys.
Alienware: Frank Azor and Nelson Gonzalez
- ▶ 1:08 Guy Raz They make it fast, they make it sleek, and they call it Alienware.
- ▶ 3:29 Guy Raz He called his little business Alienware in part because, well, he's fascinated by aliens. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:37 Guy Raz And, and Alex is going to figure prominently in this story because he would become a founding member of Alienware.
- ▶ 21:45 Nelson Gonzalez But I want to go a little bit, if you don't mind, I'll, I'll tell you a little, the funny story about how Alienware came to be. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:03 Guy Raz So it's 1998, and Nelson's childhood friend Alex has agreed to quit his job and join Alienware.
- ▶ 32:33 Guy Raz Okay, so, so Nelson, up to this point, it was, it was pretty much you and Alex and Fabian who are running Alienware, but, but we're gonna, uh, pause for a second. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:13 Frank Azor Alienware was, is still, um, one of the few brands that has, like, a personality behind it where you can cover up the logo and know immediately that that is an Alienware product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:05 Guy Raz So it's around 2004 and Alienware has become one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:38 Nelson Gonzalez The challenge was I wanted to make Alienware a little bit bigger, so, no, I want to incorporate. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:14 Guy Raz You, you and Alex left Alienware, I think at roughly the same time. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:52 Guy Raz So you really, I mean, and you kind of oversaw the growth, the explosive growth of Alienware, I mean, to the point where now it's not just PCs and laptops. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:52 Frank Azor That was the secret sauce of Alienware was the differences in opinions and the respect that everybody had for one another and all of that.
- ▶ 1:12:40 Guy Raz That's Nelson Gonzalez and Frank Azor, two of the co-founders of Alienware.
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- ▶ 17:25 Mike Doherty and I want to sell an Alienware computer.