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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 1:09:20 Harry Stebbings Do you think Bill Gates' suggestion was right that we should tax agent usage and token usage?
Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 15:30 Harry Stebbings That was actually, that was something that Bill Gates said actually, is that we have to have clearly defined human roles moving forward.
Why Startups Fails Even After Finding PMF | Prukalpa Sankar, Atlan
- ▶ 0:00 Prukalpa Sankar In the dawn of the internet era, Bill Gates said content is king and we believe in the AI world, context is going to be king.
- ▶ 1:06 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, Bill Gates said back in 1996 that, uh, content is king. 2 times in the scene
What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 48:13 Erik Torenberg Patrick Coulson, you know, remarked a few years ago, he said, hey, it feels like there's less younger founders today, you know, in the way that Zuck, you know, in college building next Facebook or, or Gates, um, you know, in the same way…
How to Build a Business That Makes Money Without You
- ▶ 9:22 Codie Sanchez Then if you want to see what a past audit looks like at the highest level, I think you could consider like Bill Gates, right? 5 times in the scene
Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
- ▶ 24:48 David Senra I think Larry Ellison, young Bill Gates, definitely like this.
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 1:03:52 David Frankel I remember the Microsoft Google case going on forever and Gates going, you know, we are disruptable.
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- ▶ 1:15:15 Micky Malka Bill Gates was there, all these big CEOs of all these companies, and I was like the youngest guy by an older magnitude, and he looks at me and says,
Why AI Creators Keep Panicking (They're Wrong)
- ▶ 20:56 Aaron Levie So, uh, so, and, and Bill Gates and Andy Grove had this dynamic, um, of like, you know, the CPU would get better, and then Windows would just kind of use all the CPU again. 2 times in the scene
Stop Being Nice: The C.L.E.A.R. Method for Earning Respect
- ▶ 2:04 Codie Sanchez So I was reading about Bill Gates the other day, and he famously loved conflict. 6 times in the scene
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:52 Blake Scholl The Steve Jobses, the Bill Gates, and I think in particular about something that Bill said. 3 times in the scene
How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 17:33 David Senra There's a great, uh, there's a great anecdote and a great story from the early days of Bill Gates' career when he was building Microsoft. 5 times in the scene
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 52:06 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, you know, it turns out Bill Gates is richer than, you know, the most famous actor in the world, right?
World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:28 unnamed speaker Um, that maybe Bill Gates, uh, Steve Jobs, and Jensen have 50 years of, of, you know, world modeling experience to know what people want.
Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:33 Harry Stebbings Phoebe Gates, Bill Gates' daughter, and her co-founder were in the news.
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 1:26:26 Jason Calacanis There was something called the giving pledge where they pushed, you know, affluent people at the Ted conference for decades, Bill Gates and everybody.
GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:59 John Coogan Miss attribution in the e-commerce world via the buzzy shopping app co-founded by Bill Gates, his daughter Phoebe is claiming credit for online sales. 2 times in the scene
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 3:58 David Senra The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system.
- ▶ 39:08 David Senra So like Michael Dell's in the book, Steve Jobs in the book, Bill Gates is in the book, and a bunch of other founders that had a company at the time and then disappeared are also in the book.
- ▶ 51:12 David Senra In some ways, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were opposites. 2 times in the scene
Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:36 unnamed speaker Bill and Paul Allen own, you know, good sluggies and even bomber owned enough to buy a basketball team at the end of it.
XBOX Layoffs, Tesla's New Model Y, $12.8M Lottery Dispute | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:28 John Coogan You know, nap rooms and free lunches, but, uh, in fact, uh, back in the late seventies and eighties, Microsoft was famously intense, very tiny teams, huge deadlines, technical arguments, uh, Gates, Bill Gates was personally reviewing work,… 2 times in the scene
How to Speak with the Richest 1%
- ▶ 11:17 Codie Sanchez Uh, Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
Shifts In The Creator Economy, Kylie Jenner x Meta, GPT 5.6 Limited Release | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 30:35 John Coogan Strype and Bill Gates are putting five hundred million dollars into funding a new organization called Intercept.
How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Run Olympics and Super Bowl | The Untold Amagi Story
- ▶ 59:42 Baskar Subramanian So obviously Bill Gates was the, the, the kind of the, the entrepreneur that we were looking forward to.
Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:00:33 Mark Pincus I've never actually fact-checked myself, but then Bill Gates did it, and then Jeff Bezos did it, and I got this as a hand-me-down secondhand, because Bing Gordon was on the board of Amazon, and he would give me
How Elon Musk Solves Problems | Eric Jorgenson
- ▶ 16:00 Eric Jorgenson We would have had operating systems without Bill Gates.
SpaceX Takes Off, Cursor's Wild Rise, Snap Bets on AR Glasses | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:24 unnamed speaker These headlines are going to get crazy because I, I mean, I, I see some of them getting community noted, but it's like a single day will move more than like all of Bill Gates' current net worth, that type of thing.
🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:08 unnamed speaker Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 1:05:25 Mark Pincus Well, one of the best things I got was, and eventually I got to sit down with Jeff, and he took like, he generously spent two hours explaining to me his concept of tech assistants, which originally Andy Grove was the first one to have a…
The New Rule for Picking AI Winners | The a16z Show
- ▶ 30:16 David George You know, there's the Bill Gates quote, um, which is, you know, the, the value of a platform.
Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- ▶ 32:32 Alex Kantrowitz Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
AI Investing Strategy for 2026 · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 2:20 Eric Scott Bill Gates had a bunch of these.
Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:36:06 Ben Gilbert Isn't that crazy to think at the same, you know, time that Bill Gates is toiling away in Albuquerque, you've got
NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:44:54 Cliff Weitzman Sam and Ilya and Greg and Elon went and got a ton of money from essentially Bill Gates, right, Microsoft.
Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 19:32 Paul Tudor Jones Back then it was Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. 2 times in the scene
From Wall Street King to Federal Prison: Michael Milken's Story · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 15:00 Richard Sandler People didn't like Bill Gates at Microsoft because they were a disruptor.
Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash)
- ▶ 19:14 Christopher Payne So I was in Microsoft coming into Amazon, and Microsoft's a very challenging environment, very competitive environment, uh, and when, you know, Bill challenges you, you respond with force.
- ▶ 1:01:27 Christopher Payne Bill Gates is like that.
Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to win
- ▶ 30:20 Jon McNeill Uh, you know, Zuck has had one, Gates had one, Jobs had two, Beating Ops had one, Ellison's had one.
Promote Giving – A New Model for Performance-Driven Giving (EP.496)
- ▶ 0:38 Ted Seides In addition to his long and stellar career in the credit markets, Joel spearheaded the launch of Promote Giving, a philanthropic initiative similar to Warren Buffett and Bill Gates' Giving Pledge designed for alternative asset managers.
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 1:09:28 Marc Andreessen Sort of protest movement to that, to try to find the next Henry Ford, or just to say Elon Musk, or the, or the next, or the next Elon Musk, or the next Steve Jobs, the next Bill Gates, the next Mark Zuckerberg.
The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 26:29 David Senra It has a quote from Bill Gates.
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:21 Marc Andreessen Um, and then, you know, Bill Gates, you know, his father was a lion of the, you know, Seattle establishment, and he went to all the best, you know, prep schools in Harvard, and, you know, as, as, again, as far as I know, had a perfectly…
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 1:06:32 Ashmeet Sidana Bill Gates famously said that I will create, that one day there will be one million developers who will write. 3 times in the scene
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 1:25:26 unnamed speaker We would have operating systems without Bill Gates.
Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:25 unnamed speaker It was reported that he was worth more than Bill Gates.
Inside Bezos’ Plan to Rebuild U.S. Manufacturing With AI
Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
- ▶ 24:34 David Singleton And one of my favorite quotes about platforms, I think it's from Bill Gates, is that you can only be a platform if you create more value for the folks participating and using the platform than, than the platform itself creates.
S2E8: Indian Mythology x Gaming: The Age of Bhaarat ft. Amish Tripathi & Mukul Deora
- ▶ 56:58 Amish Tripathi Bill Gates was on stage and it hung at that time.
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 57:43 David Senra It's all these Bill Gates wire fees.
- ▶ 1:31:00 Marc Andreessen Or by the way, early on, Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, or early on, Bill Gates and, you know, Steve Ballmer.
- ▶ 1:47:36 Marc Andreessen Um, there, there were, there was, there was, uh, there was, uh, Bill Gates, Craig McCaw.
Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:38 unnamed speaker Bring down Bill Gates. 3 times in the scene
Wealth Expert: Do THIS Every Time You Get Paid | Morgan Housel
- ▶ 9:47 Morgan Housel Now I think Elon Musk is like multiple Jeff Bezos is richer than Bill Gates kind of thing.
Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
- ▶ 46:52 Jim McKelvey So we had to show him hardware, which terrified me because he is a notorious design snob, so much that when Bill Gates tried to show him the Microsoft Zoom, he refused to touch it because it was too ugly, right?
Palmer Luckey: Why I Started My Own Bank
- ▶ 14:06 Palmer Luckey I mean, you, you remember what, uh, you remember what Bill Gates said, right?
Inside the Minds of the Most Successful Founders | David Senra
- ▶ 1:12:16 David Senra So like all Steve jobs, Bill Gates, all these other people that went on and build great technology companies in the seventies and eighties, look to these guys before them, right?
Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- ▶ 5:03 David Senra It's like Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 9:28 David Sacks So does Bill Gates in this particular article, by the way. 3 times in the scene
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 47:54 Harry Stebbings I mean, it's pretty shitty for Bill too, but let's stay on Satya because we're not going into politics. 2 times in the scene
ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
- ▶ 4:53 David Sacks Yeah, I mean, and even Bill Gates has acknowledged that this is not an existential threat.
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
- ▶ 32:11 Simon Squibb Back in the holidays, um, behind the scenes, folks, before we sat down here together, Harry was sitting with Phoebe Gates, Bill Gates, his daughter, and doing a podcast, and I, I went to New York on holiday, and ended up meeting her and…
Capital One Acquires Brex for $5B, Davos’s $500M business, Apple’s Siri rebuild | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:22 Satya Nadella Bill had a line which I liked as well, which was, it's information at your fingertips.
Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
- ▶ 4:43 Satya Nadella Uh, Bill had a line which I liked as well, which was, it's information at your fingertips.
- ▶ 16:33 Satya Nadella I, and I, I would agree with that, but David, since you even worked at Microsoft for a few years, um, you, I know one of the things that I'm very grounded on is always, uh, that Bill Gates line of a platform, right? 2 times in the scene
The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:19 unnamed speaker On Wednesday, August 24th, twenty-twenty-two, with the Pacific Northwest summer showing all of its beauty, Bill Gates hosted a dinner at his home in Lake Washington. 2 times in the scene
How Rick Rubin Works
- ▶ 1:02:35 David Senra That's exactly what convinced Paul Allen and Bill Gates to stop focusing on school and going all in on Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:19 unnamed speaker One caveat, I understand your comment, which is why the old Bill Gates rule and, you know, uh, was always have two years of cash on the balance sheet, like OPEX cash, right?