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BigDeal 25 
Cheeky Pint 24 
Founder's Journal 23 
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the Startup Ideas Podcast 15 
American Optimist 14 
We Live to Build 13 
David Senra 13 
Lenny's Podcast 13 
A Product Market Fit Show 13 
Invest Like the Best 12 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 11 
Another Podcast 11 
Innovators & Investors 9 
Sourcery 9 
the Green Blueprint 8 
the MAD Podcast 8 
In Depth 7 
No Priors 7 
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the Official SaaStr Podcast 6 
Startup Acquisition Stories 5 
Catalyst 3 
Startups For the Rest of Us 2 
Mixergy 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Bill Gates comes up on Founders, Acquired, 20VC, How I Built This, Top Founders
Startup Hotline
- ▶ 3:58 Alex Lieberman Of course, there's like the Mount Rushmore of entrepreneurs that people build in their head, whether it's Elon Musk, Bill Gage, Jeff Bezos, and that's the story for them.
Best of 2023: Conversations of the Year
- ▶ 1:25:39 Dr. Gio Valiante And that's why proponents of capitalism and free markets, you can just see it in modern day, like the world moves because, because individuals innovate and evolve, whether it's Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos has created eight hundred…
Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
- ▶ 37:19 Steve Blank Don't laugh, because I managed to figure out how to get someone to call Bill Gates, because that was the other thing I did was I had an advisory board of potential chess pieces, and one of them was Gordon Bell, who was a mentor of mine who… 2 times in the scene
Financing first-of-a-kind climate assets
Peter Thiel's Ideas
- ▶ 0:05 David Senra In some ways, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were opposites. 2 times in the scene
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
AI and Everything Else
- ▶ 7:21 Benedict Evans I think there's a sort of a second case, which is captured by a great Bill Gates quote, partial quote from the beginning of this year, which is, no, this is a lot bigger than a platform shift.
- ▶ 19:08 Benedict Evans We don't kind of have that for this stuff, regardless of whether you buy the Bill Gates thesis or indeed whether you're worried about AGI.
ISB and Ashoka University Founder, Pramath Raj Sinha on The Neon Show
- ▶ 17:09 unnamed speaker In fact, we were again at McKinsey involved in making sure that he got, he went and met the, uh, Bill Gates at the US ambassador's home, uh, and said that you come, then Gates came, there was this big announcement, and finally Microsoft… 2 times in the scene
Making sense of advanced nuclear’s stumbles
- ▶ 5:41 Stephen Lacey And that includes like people such as Bill Gates, Sam Altman of OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:57 Eric Wesoff Um, the Bill Gates, Natrium, and any of the other advanced reactors need a different type of fuel than is currently fueling all of the reactors in the United States, and most in Canada.
Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 32:56 Puneet Goyal So, 52%, this is Bill Gates book, which he wrote, uh, that 50% of the global CO two emissions that happened is because of transportation on ground.
Paul Graham's Essays Part II
- ▶ 11:29 David Senra Bill Gates, for example, was among the smartest people in business in his era, but he was also among the hardest working. 2 times in the scene
From High School Dropout To $952 Million At 33 | Jess Mah Interview (#526)
- ▶ 1:07:36 Shaan Puri Of the five most impressive people I've met, it's like Bill Gates, or whatever, you know, Larry and Sergey, and Sam Altman, you know, and it's like, that's when he was doing looped, and nobody, you know, there was no, there was no track…
Nicolai Tangen – Overseeing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund (EP.354)
- ▶ 18:20 Nicolai Tangen And so we've talked to the biggest bank CEOs, the biggest tech CEOs, Sam Altman, Bill Gates, all these kind of things.
- ▶ 49:05 Nicolai Tangen What an honor to be able to have a whole hour with some of these people, to spend an hour with Bill Gates or Jensen Huang or Sam Altman or James Gorman or you name it, that you get a whole hour with some of the most important people in the…
Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- ▶ 49:19 Jason Calacanis You have Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos who are thinking about philanthropy in a very
99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 52 Minutes (#525)
- ▶ 1:03 Shaan Puri And, um, you know, Bill Gates called, uh, Charlie, you know, maybe the broadest thinker he knows.
- ▶ 28:32 Shaan Puri Why does Bill Gates say he goes from A to Z faster than anyone?
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 34:59 David Senra There are plenty of people as smart as Bill Gates who achieve nothing.
- ▶ 59:08 David Senra Paul makes that point with, with Bill Gates specifically a few times where he's like, listen, without that, yeah, Bill Gates is smart. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:32 David Senra Founders one 40, which is the best Bill Gates biography that I've read so far, because it covers just the 35 years, the first 35 years of his life.
Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story (#521)
- ▶ 38:49 Andrew Wilkinson It's like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates and you know, all these amazing people.
Ep# 13 | WTF does it take to Build Influence Today? Nikhil w/ Nuseir, Tanmay, Prajakta & Ranveer · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 5:15 Nuseir Yassin And she is, uh, Bill Gates' favorite creator. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 44:36 David Senra It's two Stanford MBA students who are interviewing 16 technology company founders, uh, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, all these people on there.
- ▶ 50:29 David Senra Would you want to have more money than, say, Bill Gates?
Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 2): Failure and Success
- ▶ 42:36 Dr. Gio Valiante And that's why proponents of capitalism and free markets, you can just see it in modern day, like the world moves because, because individuals innovate and evolve, whether it's Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos has created eight hundred…
Brian Chesky’s new playbook
- ▶ 1:00:14 Brian Chesky Like when I was trying to figure out how to run the company, I studied the history of division organizations and I studied Steve Jobs, but also studied like what Bill Gates did.
When a robot cooks your lunch with Steve Ells of Chipotle and Kernel
- ▶ 6:36 Steve Ells And, you know, one of the things that I read was Bill Gates, um, how to avoid a climate disaster.
The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
- ▶ 27:43 Rob Copeland You know, Bill Gates,
Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
- ▶ 58:47 Allison Thacker I'm sure I should be more like Bill Gates and just read nonfiction all the time, but at the end of the day, it's very relaxing to take a break from your brain and go off into this other world that someone else has written about or lived,…
How Should You Spend Time As A CEO/Founder?
- ▶ 18:49 Sam Corcos I just directly stole this from Bill Gates to do a think week where I don't engage in email.
Tackling the tough stuff: steel, cement, and chemicals
- ▶ 34:14 Stephen Lacey And I mean, are they mostly just like teams of engineers who've raised, you know, 50, a hundred million dollars from Bill Gates and are working on some fancy technology that they hope to drop in?
Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
- ▶ 43:44 Brian McCullough Zuckerberg, to my sense of him, has envy for anybody that, I mean, Bill Gates had this too, anybody that's successful in a field that he thinks he could be successful in.
Ep 67: Brad Gerstner on the AI Supercycle & Restoring Faith in Capitalism · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 38:39 Brad Gerstner Um, ultimately, you know, if you read the Bill Gates annual letter,
Diffblue’s AI Testing Paradigm Shift — CEO Mathew Lodge Explains How Code Writes Itself
- ▶ 31:51 Mathew Lodge You know, you, uh, the original versions of basic were written by, you know, Bill Gates and, uh, Paul Allen and all those guys in assembler.
Bundling/Unbundling AI
- ▶ 0:33 Benedict Evans Like, I'll stop monologuing, but the, the sort of, the basic observation is, so here we have this, these, these, these, this ChatGPT, these LLMs, that look like a generalized computing platform, and even if you don't think it's going to go…
- ▶ 10:23 Benedict Evans And this is Bill Gates's point that GUIs replace command lines.
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:31 Matthew Prince You know, Gates seems like he's made a, a bunch of, you know, strange decisions.
- ▶ 10:32 Matthew Prince To be as successful as, as Gates, to be as successful as Bezos, to be as successful as Benioff, not only do you have to love it, but it becomes you.
- ▶ 12:59 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is, you know, you're bending off your gates, your Bezos.
Metaverse IRL, Bollywood Protein Powder & AI Gadgets That Suck (#507)
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 4:13 David Senra And Buffett is talking about being at dinner, or I guess drinks maybe, with Bill Gates and Bill Gates' dad. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 28:36 David Senra Uh, their careers weave in and out of each other's for decades, and that's Bill Gates. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:42 David Senra So let's go to what, again, I love studying the early days of Bill Gates. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:13 David Senra Psychologically and emotionally, signing on with IBM was every bit as complicated for Steve as begging Bill Gates to support his computer. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:03 David Senra He's saying, listen, this guy knew more about managing and motivating creative people than anyone I've met, including Sony's founder, Akia Morita, Intel's Andy Grove, Bill Gates, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Southwest Airlines, Herb Keller.
- ▶ 57:51 David Senra He, so he calls up Bill Gates, and this is Bill Gates on Steve's simplicity. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:07 David Senra So Mike Slade is going to wind up being close friends with both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, but he did not have a formal position.
- ▶ 1:16:58 David Senra And I'm going to read some notes that I have took from years back about synthesizing this in a minute, but I want to read you Bill Gates on Steve Jobs' Disney negotiation, because Bill's, again, Bill's a main character in the book. 5 times in the scene
Kevin Niparko: Big Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Product Teams | E1066 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:26 Kevin Niparko Uh, do you remember this example of, of Bill Gates going on Letterman and explaining why Letterman needed the internet?
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:51 Miles Grimshaw You, you think back to the story of Microsoft and, and, um, 95 Bill Gates wrote sort of the Paul Harbour memo of like, we need an internet native
What the Future of SaaS Holds with David Sacks, Founder & General Partner, Craft Ventures
- ▶ 13:49 David Sacks Um, the, the insight that made Bill Gates the richest man in the world is he realized he could mass produce software. 2 times in the scene
Threading the future of circular fashion with Peter Majeranowski of Circ
Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
- ▶ 1:11:40 Paras Chopra Either you should do like a totally, ah, non-profit kind of a work where you're just literally with no expectation of return, you're almost like Bill Gates. 4 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan (Japanese Version)
No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan
How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
- ▶ 14:03 Ezra Kagan Uh, Bill Gates.
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:34 Vinod Khosla Bill Gates has talked about a robot tax.
CIA Took His Case Mid-Investigation and Never Told Him Why
E135: Wagner rebels, SCOTUS ends AA, AI M&A, startups gone bad, spacetime warps & more
- ▶ 1:01:14 David Friedberg And the business just announced today that they've just closed a 1.3 billion dollar funding round led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Nvidia, uh, with an intention of building the largest AI cluster in the world.
Why Successful Business Minds Have Paranoid Brains
- ▶ 21:05 Alex Lieberman Last two, I used to put top entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos on such a pedestal.
Spikeball: Chris Ruder
E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:42:35 Brad Gerstner Because whoever secures this position, you know, Bill Gates said he's been playing around with it.
- ▶ 1:44:20 Jason Calacanis Bill Gates wants to genetically modify mosquitoes. 4 times in the scene
Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:12 Larry Summers I am somebody who believes in creating opportunity rather than going to war with inequality, because I think if we had more entrepreneurs, more multi-billionaires like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates,
Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
- ▶ 1:03:42 Chris Sacca We have an electric airplane company in Sweden that even Bill Gates said was going to be impossible.
Ep #5 | EdTech What’s Broken, What’s Next? With Nikhil, Ronnie Screwvala , Gaurav Munjal & Jay Kotak · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 0:36 Gaurav Munjal Bill Gates has started this windows that has made him a billionaire and I want to start doors.
- ▶ 2:24 Gaurav Munjal Bill Gates has started this Windows that has made him a billionaire, and I want to start doors.
- ▶ 33:35 Gaurav Munjal Now, I was reading this book called Hard Drive, which is Bill Gates biography. 3 times in the scene
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 6:00 David Sacks Even Bill Gates admits now that the vaccine doesn't work.
Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:53 Tomer Cohen So they're still there for, you know, Bill Gates at Microsoft, Scott Cook at Intuit.
Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:37:42 Nikhil Kamath Like, if you look at these guys, Bill Gates, like I was mentioning and all that, I think, five, 10 years from now, I don't think we'll be thinking how we're thinking right now.
- ▶ 2:23:05 Tanmay Bhat Did you tell this to Bill Gates when you, when you met him?
Customer Empathy: The key to 10Xing your company
- ▶ 19:03 Alex Yampolskiy You always have to work on it and continuously get out of bed and think about how you evolve, but those are some of the things that work for us, and as I mentioned, this quote by Bill Gates is very relevant.
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 51:38 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. These are the countries that Tony Fauci and Bill Gates said, we got to get them vaccinated. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:51 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. We stopped it here, they stopped in Europe, but Bill Gates and WHO are still giving it to a hundred and sixty one million African children every year. 3 times in the scene
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 47:00 David Friedberg Would you have recognized Bill Gates was going to stand out or Zuck?
Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
- ▶ 53:49 Martin Shkreli Rockefeller, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, a couple of people who are accused of monopolies, their firms got sued.
- ▶ 1:33:46 Martin Shkreli But growing up, I always liked Bill Gates, who was kind of this, you know, smug, hated by the way. 10 times in the scene
Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:18:01 Tanmay Bhat Oh, you met Bill Gates, right? 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:25:33 Umang Bedi I mean, something else could come along that could be disruptive, but I mean, if you think about the heydays of tech, and you know, it's interesting that you mentioned Bill Gates. 3 times in the scene
How This Founder Wants to Reward You for Paying Rent
- ▶ 5:30 Ankur Jain And so in, you know, mid eighties, he flew up to Seattle with my mom and that's when he met, you know, the, the early folks at Microsoft, Bill and everybody.
Tom Joy – Divine Diversification and Responsibility at Church Commissioners (Capital Allocators, EP.306)
- ▶ 5:05 Ted Seides On Wednesday, have a listen to the story of the Yellowstone Club, an exclusive, private, members-only ski and golf community located in Big Sky, Montana, whose members reportedly include Bill Gates, Justin Timberlake, Eric Schmidt, and Tom…
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 47:35 Jason Calacanis When Balmer took over during that period after Gates, when they were on their heels, he basically just focused on revenue and paying dividends and stock buybacks and the stock went sideways and he missed mobile and now.
Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438)
- ▶ 9:40 Sam Parr And you also say that like, you're like, why is Bill Gates excited? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:29 Dharmesh Shah I was like, okay, this guy gets it for him to spend that kind of money on chat UX, which Bill Gates just talked about last week as the, the new thing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:22 Shaan Puri I actually stole this from the, from Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
Nathan Myhrvold
- ▶ 4:38 Nathan Myhrvold Uh, Bill hoped I would come to my senses after being bored at home, but I wasn't, so, um, I never went back.
- ▶ 5:48 Nathan Myhrvold I had to convince Bill to give me a leave of absence.
The Story of Sam Zemurray is Bananas
- ▶ 31:04 Alex Lieberman Yeah, and I think based on that last piece you just said, like, at the end of the day, not to say that every super, uber successful entrepreneur, kind of, that, like, we look up to in society, whether it's the Elons of the world, or Steve…
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- ▶ 56:51 Jason Calacanis He, when you think of that PC era of no taste, beige boxes, and everybody having no style and just no swagger, he was studying, you know, German design, Buddhism, tripping on acid, and like just understanding the universe at a level that…
Unlock Your Super-Learning Potential: Learn from Emerson Spartz, Founder of Dose and MuggleNet
- ▶ 3:38 Emerson Spartz I, my, my life plan earlier on was like, I want to be a billionaire and then I want to be like Bill Gates where I give it all away
Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber)
- ▶ 40:13 Lenny Rachitsky Reminds me, I think it's Bill Gates talking about someone's in a garage building the next Microsoft
E112: Is Davos a grift? Plus: globalist mishaps, debt ceilings, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 51:31 Jason Calacanis I think the challenge though is, Freeberg, that it takes a recognition that there are singular individuals in the world, one in a 1,000,001 in 10,000,001 in a 100,000, whatever it is, who can just drive an entire economy forward, whether…
How an Entrepreneur Turns Self-Hate into Love
- ▶ 4:51 Alex Lieberman I have an image of the people who I look up to that I want to be more like, and I think my comparison to these people from, like, the best entrepreneurs of all time, like the Musk and the Bill Gates to even my co-founder, Austin.
- ▶ 14:13 Jesse Pujji Like Bill Gates was passionate about software.
- ▶ 18:33 Jesse Pujji Look at Bill Gates.
- ▶ 25:05 Jesse Pujji And like, they use Bill Gates as this example.
Anthony Scaramucci – Another Winter and Another Rebirth (Capital Allocators, EP.292)
- ▶ 13:13 Anthony Scaramucci Bill Gates said it was a fad in the mid nineties.
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