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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where BASIC comes up on Acquired, the a16z Podcast, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, How I Built This, Founders
Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:49 Amjad Masad So, you know, I started, you know, coding on basic and you just start the basic command line interpreter and you can just like type a little basic 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 5:25 Marc Andreessen You're, you're probably not old enough, uh, to remember, but I remember when, uh, when I was a kid, it was, um, you know, there, there were, were higher level languages, you know, uh, by the seventies, like, like basic and so forth and… 3 times in the scene
The College Crisis: Heads of Dartmouth & Berkeley Debate the Decline of US Universities
- ▶ 26:59 Sian Beilock We developed basic.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 55:26 Steven Sinofsky The implementation of the basic programming language that had already gained strength across many of the platforms, but this consolidation that on boot up there was basic, and then this proliferation of tooling that appeared on DOS,… 2 times in the scene
He built a $4B unicorn & crossed $100M ARR—here's why it took 10 years of 100-hour weeks. | Marti... · PMF Show
- ▶ 4:29 Martin Basiri And he showed me basic language and said, this is what computer's for.
Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
- ▶ 3:05 Florian Douetteau And, uh, most of the programming was basic.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 12:45 Marc Andreessen And, and what happened was you literally, you got injected into a, uh, the basic programming language interpreter. 2 times in the scene
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 22:45 David Rosenthal Back at Lakeside, they were just using BASIC, the programming language.
- ▶ 23:13 Ben Gilbert So there's a meaningful amount of translation done by a basic interpreter that takes you from the basic code you have to write to what is actually running on the machine.
- ▶ 23:23 David Rosenthal But basic, we don't want to give the impression that it is just basic or just for kids.
- ▶ 23:52 Ben Gilbert It's a reasonable parallel to draw it way back when with BASIC, where you say, look, you can understand it as a layman, but also it's used in a broad set of business applications.
- ▶ 29:39 David Rosenthal Why don't I go off and write an interpreter for basic here, and we can sell the basic interpreter for the microprocessor and build a big business.
- ▶ 43:16 Ben Gilbert You know, it's quite valuable to then make the claim you can program basic on our computer.
- ▶ 46:59 Ben Gilbert So everyone else who said they were writing a basic never got far enough
- ▶ 59:48 Ben Gilbert So you've got source code that looks kind of like English, you know, basic it's letters and numbers.
- ▶ 1:34:58 David Rosenthal So that's why the basic, the interpreter is so important.
- ▶ 1:37:11 Ben Gilbert We're going to need a basic.
- ▶ 1:37:53 David Rosenthal Basic programs that Microsoft was going to interpret and then run.
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 17:56 David Senra I told Bill, well, here's our opportunity to do something with basic, basics of programming language at the time.
- ▶ 18:36 David Senra He needed somebody to write software for the computer, and he tells Paul and Bill, whoever shows up first with a working version of BASIC will get the deal.
Everyone Else Gave Him Data. Tom Gave Them Something Different.
- ▶ 9:31 Tom Pierce Uh, by programming and watching what he did, learning what he did, and, and programming it into basic.
Adam Shapiro – Post-Breeding Grounds for Rising Stars and Families (Capital Allocators, EP.319)
- ▶ 6:18 Adam Shapiro I grew up during the period of early computers, Commodore VIC-X, IBM PC Junior, the basic language. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
Should You Follow Your Passion? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:22 Dalton Caldwell My recollection of the story is it was some folks that really liked computers when they were a new thing and someone needs to port basic, which was a programming language onto some weird hardware sold out of a strip mall in Albuquerque,…
Nazara Technologies founder on IPO and future of the Company @NazaraGames
- ▶ 2:07 Nitish Mittersain By the time I was seven, I was coding games in BASIC, and actually my life became that, you know, computers, technology.
Dropbox: Drew Houston
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 25:03 Steven Sinofsky That's braindead, or like, that's the stupidest thing I ever heard, or I could do that in a weekend in basic and four K, or, you know, that, and like, they really weren't like that.
Squarespace: Anthony Casalena
- ▶ 3:11 Anthony Casalena My, my dad always had computers around, so, um, I would break those and incur, uh, the wrath of my parents, and, um, eventually I got to a point where they were sick of me breaking their computers and ended up buying me, uh, or getting one…
a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- ▶ 1:05 Steven Sinofsky You know, my old boss Bill Gates was famous for how many things he could squeeze into an eight bit byte of basic, you know, over the weekend.
a16z Podcast | Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
- ▶ 12:43 unnamed speaker It was just fun, and I learned how to code in basic on a three 86.