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Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger's Greatest Lessons · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:23:12 David Senra But one of them, you know, they got Michael Dell's in there, Bill Gates is in there, Steve Jobs is in there, and, you know, being MBA students, they didn't know any better.
How To Set Goals For 2026 That You’ll Actually Follow Through On
- ▶ 17:34 Codie Sanchez Gates is known as a multi-decade architect.
All-In x Kill Tony: A Hilarious Holiday Special
- ▶ 7:15 Tony Hinchcliffe That's like being accused of visiting Epstein's Island and having an alibi that you were touring Thailand with Bill Gates.
My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
- ▶ 1:13:20 David Senra And so he's like, the way I'm going to do that is I'm going to pick a fight with Bill Gates and Microsoft.
WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2 · Nikhil Kamath
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 0:47 Jason Calacanis And he cites Skates, Dario, Elon saying that AI would replace most jobs.
Ford PULLS BACK EV Investment
- ▶ 20:12 John Coogan Truly new territory for, I mean, I guess there were probably people that were in MS Paint making fun of Bill Gates.
Finding The 1% of Stocks That Matter | Henry Ellenbogen Interview · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:53:22 Henry Ellenbogen And she, she was not on the Bill Gates
GPT-5.2 Reactions, Jacob Elordi vs AI, Disney x OpenAI Deal Breakdown | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:32 unnamed speaker Bill Gates, on the other hand,
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 11:35 Benedict Evans And in fact, literally quote Bill Gates.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 2:13 Erik Torenberg It's fascinating, because I, some people say, hey, you know, Bill Gates is so much richer than me, but he has the same phone that I have.
- ▶ 42:17 Erik Torenberg And then there are some people who seem to have pretty, like, uh, you know, Bill Gates has, like, you know, pretty big team, pretty big operation. 2 times in the scene
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 1:50:42 Shane Parrish There is this thing that sort of relates to that, which was Bill Gates had this saying, he's like the best, and you know, I have friends living this now, the best technology doesn't win.
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
- ▶ 46:27 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Sal gets his first big donation for Khan Academy, and how he eventually winds up having a slightly surreal meeting with Bill Gates.
- ▶ 54:05 Guy Raz Fires you a 100,000 dollar check, and I guess that same year, 2010, um, the Aspen Ideas Festival happens, and Bill Gates is there, and he's, he's telling the audience that he uses this thing called Khan Academy. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:22 Sal Khan I think Larry might've said, oh, so tell Bill what you're up to. 7 times in the scene
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:38:53 David Rosenthal Later on at Sun Valley, Bill Gates lets it slip on a panel with Warren and Roberto and Don Keogh that Warren has always told Bill that Coca-Cola could be run by a ham sandwich.
- ▶ 2:39:12 David Rosenthal Yeah, Roberto gets very offended and apparently never talks to Bill Gates again.
- ▶ 3:40:54 David Rosenthal And Bill.
CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- ▶ 2:01:01 Michael Ovitz I mean, I had some experience in tech from 92 with my Andy Grove Intel CAA deal, meeting Gates in 93, but
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 0:00 Satya Nadella Bill was always obsessed. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:03 Satya Nadella No, I think that, in fact, I think if I'm not mistaken, uh, Bill coined this term, uh, information at your fingertips at a Comdex speech, I think in the nineties. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:50 Satya Nadella My management chain was Rick Rashid, who, and, you know, who reported to Craig Mundy, who reported to Nathan Merwold, and, and there was Bill Gates, and I was thinking, man, that's a lot of IQ. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:34 Satya Nadella In fact, the concept that Bill had when he started Microsoft was, it's a software factory.
- ▶ 1:14:45 Satya Nadella Steve and Bill built a company. 2 times in the scene
I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
- ▶ 11:12 Sam Parr And we've heard Bill Gates talk about that.
- ▶ 24:36 Sam Parr I'm going to be, like, with Bill Gates.
- ▶ 34:27 Sam Parr He goes, but the reason people would make fun of like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg when they were young, because they would wear hoodies all the time and wear pajama bottoms all the time and be like, well, why aren't you wearing a suit?
Boston Metal’s path to carbon-free steel
- ▶ 21:03 Tadeu Carneiro The largest bunch of billionaires together, which is the breakthrough energy ventures led by Bill Gates.
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: Frontier AI + Virtual Biology To Solve All Diseases
- ▶ 0:46 unnamed speaker Uh, and I, I heard that Bill Gates is a mentor of yours.
Billionaire’s Advice to Young People | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 28:42 Codie Sanchez People were talking about how your former classmates, they were going to work for Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, and how some of the other friends of yours began kind of telling you, like, what the hell are you doing?
The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
- ▶ 1:35 Shaan Puri We hear these stories where it's like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, they, they were at Harvard and then they dropped out with this big grand idea and it came to fruition.
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 5:50 David Senra One of the biggest enemies he ever picks in his entire life is Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:37 David Senra Later on, we'll go into a lot of detail of this fight, this intentional fight that he picks against Bill Gates and Microsoft and how beneficial the positioning was.
- ▶ 52:14 David Senra Even Bill Gates' business strategy is just a copy of Standard Oil's strategy back in the 18 seventies. 19 times in the scene
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 56:27 Erik Torenberg David, you recently tweeted that climate doomerism perhaps is giving way to AI doomerism based on, you know, Bill Gates recent comments.
All things AI w @altcap @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥BG2 w/ Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 33:33 Satya Nadella I mean, Bill's obsession for the company was natural language, natural language. 3 times in the scene
Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
- ▶ 1:09:32 David Friedberg Just before, uh, we lose you, I wanna, like, ask if you saw the Bill Gates memo that he put out.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN
- ▶ 2:04 Satya Nadella In fact, the paper was written by Dario, Ilya, and, uh, the scaling laws paper, and, uh, that thing that's, you know, Microsoft has been obsessed since Bill started at Microsoft Research in 95 is natural language.
- ▶ 4:13 Satya Nadella And then I think, you know, Billy even said, yeah, you're going to burn this billion dollars, right?
- ▶ 13:28 Satya Nadella The concepts Bill had when he started Microsoft was, hey, we're a software factory. 2 times in the scene
How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
- ▶ 37:50 David Senra In the nineties and late nineties and in 97, they interview, uh, 16 technology company founders, since they're in Silicon Valley at the time, you know, and they published this book called In the Company of Giants and everybody's in there,…
5x founder asked Ford for a contract so large—they acquired his company instead. | Amar Varma, Fo... · PMF Show
- ▶ 11:45 Amar Varma I got to work for Paul Moritz, who was the number three person at Microsoft during the eighties and nineties under Bill.
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 24:31 David Senra That to push himself and his company, and one enemy that he picked was Bill Gates, and the whole thing that Larry, Larry's point was like, you want a foe worthy of your steel. 6 times in the scene
Secret Tech Billionaire Is Betting $1B on This · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:10 Joe Lonsdale Bill Gates came down and said, you're the only person not competing me for talent.
- ▶ 1:59 Joe Lonsdale I remember Bill Gates came down and said, you're the only person now competing me for talent in the 19 nineties, and you, and you just crushed it there.
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 33:42 Ben Horowitz Cause like in the whole Gates and Balmer era, they were never that good a partner to anybody.
AI Bubble, Stablecoin Boom, and Runnin' Down a Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 47:20 Brad Gerstner Bill Gates extols upon this in his, in his annual letters.
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 54:41 Alex Kantrowitz Taken by other tech leaders, including Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, and Reed Hastings.
How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- ▶ 58:42 Shaan Puri It was like Larry and Sergey, Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
Michael Dell, Dell Technologies | David Senra
- ▶ 24:15 Michael Dell And, you know, you also start, started hearing about Bill Gates
Why is lifestyle the next big thing? | Startup Stories Uncut | Episode 1
- ▶ 47:15 Naveen Arun Bill Gates could see 10 years beyond because he had that information and data, and then he had all the
Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 32:50 Marc Andreessen Oh, oh, yeah, ok, ok, so the, the story roughly goes as follows, it's in the books, but it roughly goes as follows, which is, uh, so Bill Gates and Paul Allen had this little software company, originally in Albuquerque, uh, down the street… 8 times in the scene
Daniel Ek, Spotify | David Senra
NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 1:42:23 Brad Gerstner I heard Bill Gates say in 2016. 2 times in the scene
What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 39:53 Joe Lonsdale And this is, I think, a problem with people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates and others is there's all these, like, like public education in America, Bill Gates just acknowledges he wasted, like, billions of dollars because he wouldn't do… 6 times in the scene
Inside the $50 Trillion AI Gold Rush | Episode 1
- ▶ 3:19 Greg Isenberg The book that changed my life was a book called The Road Ahead by Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 47:00 Aaron Levie I think I got the Gates version of it.
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra I want to start with a quote by Bill Gates on Bill Gates, and then I want to tell you this excellent Larry Ellison quote on Bill Gates that I found. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34 David Senra So recently Bill Gates just wrote an autobiography. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:11 David Senra A lot of this that I pull off from source code is you see one of the things that the genius things that Bill Gates did is he designed a company that was natural to him that benefited 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:40 David Senra This is something Bill Gates understood intuitively and implemented incessantly. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:22 David Senra So in addition to having a distaste for inefficiency, a distaste for waste, having the ability to hyper focus to other traits of Bill Gates that are present in his early childhood. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:57 David Senra All I know is there's one book on Bill Gates that has to be on that list, one of my favorite books I've ever read. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:59 David Senra And there's something that Bill Gates says in a few different books. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 David Senra My approach was rapid fire in your face. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:00 David Senra And so when Bill Gates goes to Harvard, he goes back to the exact same working style. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:54 David Senra It is so odd that Bill, it goes back to, you know, the ego and having a lot of confidence that I mentioned that Michael Dell said, and that Bill Gates, you know, everybody around him reported seeing him when he was earlier. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:47 David Senra Now I want to go back to this reoccurring theme that Bill Gates wanted to be hardcore. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:13 David Senra That is one of my favorite descriptions of a young Bill Gates. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:33 David Senra When you have extreme success, like Bill Gates has had, there's no way that they could have possibly predicted the scale of their success.
- ▶ 39:04 David Senra So Bill is going to write two more autobiographies. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:02 David Senra There's a great quote from Bill Gates in Hard Drive. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:24 David Senra Part of what made Microsoft so successful during the company's infancy was the team of programmers that Gates and Allen began to assemble in the spring of 1976. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:40 David Senra And so one of my favorite parts of this book is just, again, it goes into this ruthless competitive drive that Bill Gates had. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:26 David Senra As you can imagine, there's a bunch of interesting stories and anecdotes about Bill Gates in it. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:41 David Senra So then Paul goes into Bill's thinking on their most important deal in the early days, Microsoft, which obviously there's a deal with IBM that's been covered over and over again. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:25 David Senra So all the words you're about to hear are just Bill Gates in 97. 10 times in the scene
How Barry Diller Built Entertainment Empires · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 37:54 Patrick O'Shaughnessy There was this amazing Larry Ellison interview on Charlie Rose, where he quotes you talking about Bill Gates, which I found from like way, way, way back when, what did he do? 6 times in the scene
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:35 Harry Stebbings I always go back to the Bill Gates.
Mark Zuckerberg, James Cameron, Andrew Yang and More - TBPN Top 5
- ▶ 21:30 Alexander Wang It's almost like, um, you know, when personal computers first came about, like the people or, or just computing in general, the people who spent the most time with and grew up with it had this immense advantage in the future economy, like…
No Priors Ep. 132 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 16:32 Mark Cuban You know, the whole Bill Gates thing, you know, a quarter hour, dollar an hour, whatever.
How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
- ▶ 11:19 Oji Udezue A lot of the most successful people, you know, Bill Gates, Facebook
Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- ▶ 4:03 Chamath Palihapitiya Folks like Tim Cook, folks like Bill Gates, and I think that that's an incredible testament to him and his agenda.
- ▶ 11:42 Chamath Palihapitiya And so again, it's like a, it's like a surreal scene where it's like Sundar, Satya, Bill Gates, Sergey, all these people in a single file line.
- ▶ 16:37 Chamath Palihapitiya And then Gates said something.
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 1:10:54 Sam Chaudhary He was like, you know, um, he told us a story about how Bill Gates wrote an article about Yahoo saying like how cool it was.
India vs. China vs. US: Who Wins the Next Decade? | WTF is Finance | Ep 1 ft. Ruchir Sharma · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:41:30 Ruchir Sharma Everyone thinks everyone across the income curve, unless you're Bill Gates, who apparently said that for me, everything is free.
Alpha School's Disruptive Vision for the Future of Education · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:54:58 Joe Liemandt And you know, Bill Gates comes down or Scott McNeely
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 8:14 David Rosenthal He's interviewing Bill Gates at the Newsweek headquarters office in New York shortly after Gmail comes out, and then they started talking about Gmail, and Bill can't believe it.
- ▶ 8:50 David Rosenthal I mean, even freaking Bill Gates operates this way.
- ▶ 3:18:31 Ben Gilbert Right after the buzz failure, he is inspired to write this memo, kind of like the Bill Gates, 1995 internet memo.
No Priors Ep. 128 | With Andrew Ng, Managing General Partner at AI Fund
- ▶ 13:54 Elad Gil Like if you, if you look at Gates or Steve Jobs slash Wozniak or a lot of the really early pioneers of the semiconductor, computer, um, early internet era, they were all highly technical.
- ▶ 38:38 Elad Gil Like Bill Gates would notoriously talk about his COO was always the person he'd learn the most off of, and then once he had a certain level scale, he'd hire his next COO.
Early-Stage Climate Tech Investing: Insights from Avesta Fund on Building Impactful Portfolios
- ▶ 40:26 Srikant Vasan And then more recently, when I was at Gates Foundation, I had a chance to interact with Bill Gates several times through various things, and I could not think of two people who were more different in their, in their demeanor and their… 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:58:18 David Senra A few pages later, they print out this joint interview that Steve Jobs, I think it's the last joint interview that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates gave. 3 times in the scene
He thought his startup would fail—then grew to $100M ARR. | Rick Song, Co-founder of Persona · PMF Show
- ▶ 45:05 Pablo Srugo And I think like a lot of, a lot of the, the, the founding, you know, the entrepreneurship thing is really romanticized and you, you over-focus on like, you look at Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or whatever, like some of these companies, some… 3 times in the scene
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