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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Commodore 64 comes up on 20VC, Top Founders, No Priors, How I Built This, the a16z Podcast
Wiz: $6M Seed → $32B Exit | Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 8:32 Gilly Raanan You know, I got, uh, you know, a Commodore 64, and, you know, it was pre-Windows, pre-DOS era, and
CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:12 unnamed speaker The lineup of stuff that launched at CES, the Atari Pong console in 1975, the CD player launched in 1981 at CES, the Commodore 64, 1982, the DVD at 1996, the Xbox
Senior Care with AI: Compassionate Companion Robots with Intuition Robotics
- ▶ 22:00 Ronan Soffer Because, because probably a lot of people my age told you about the, uh, Commodore 64, or Spectrum, Sinclair Spectrum, or, um, um, in my case, Dragon 32 that they had at home.
Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 1:50 Karri Saarinen So I was told, I don't really remember this, but like when I was five years old, I wanted to play, like we, uh, we got the Commodore, 64 K or something.
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 44:58 Thomas Dohmke If you think, you know, the next generation of developers, you know, maybe not 20, 25, but 2035, like, look, you know, and you mentioned, you know, me growing up in East Germany and then the wall fell and they bought a Commodore 64, but…
- ▶ 49:45 Thomas Dohmke And, uh, and reflect on what it was like in the nineties, nineties to, to program on a Commodore, 64 before and after the internet, right?
Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
- ▶ 49:23 Tim Kennedy They couldn't even go on that, that entire floor of the house, which was like the playroom, you know, Commodore 64 was down there.
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:17 Sami Inkinen And I somehow convinced my parents to, uh, find the money to buy a Commodore 64. 2 times in the scene
Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%
- ▶ 1:45 Martin Webb And then in 1987, I'm famous for being the kid that did the Sega Outland conversion for the CBM 64 worldwide, which was at the time the biggest selling game in the world.
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 5:09 Luis von Ahn She instead got me a computer, a Commodore 64, and I couldn't figure out how to use it, but eventually I kind of, I read like the manual and stuff, and I figured out how to use it more, and then I figured out I could pirate other people's,…
Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:22 Marc Benioff And we were writing software on Atari 800, and Commodore 64, and Apple II, and it was an amazing time because nobody knew what we were doing.
Everyone Else Gave Him Data. Tom Gave Them Something Different.
- ▶ 8:51 Tom Pierce Different forms of computers, and we are really talking dark ages here, Commodore, 64, TRS eighties, but, but you had, you know, the new young officers,
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11 Tobi Lütke If you think C-sixty-four, then you sort of get the right idea.
Accucode Builds $30m ARR SaaS Tool Inside of $70m Revenue Hardware Business
- ▶ 6:09 Kevin Price I bought a Commodore 64 when I was nine years old, back in the seventies and taught myself basic.
#124 Douglas Rushkoff: The Perils of Modern Media
- ▶ 10:58 Douglas Rushkoff Uh, or even on a Commodore 64, it was still a whole big thing.
Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- ▶ 1:06:57 Balaji Srinivasan oh, you know, I had a Commodore 64 really early on as programming, you know, and so on.
How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com
- ▶ 5:16 Will Schroeder Uh, the only reason I understood anything about technology was because when I was, I'm trying to think back, probably nine or 10 years old, uh, I had one of the first computers, a Commodore 64 computer, and I'm a huge video gamer, so I… 2 times in the scene
Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- ▶ 1:57 Einar Volset So I grew up in Norway and, um, we had, I think my first computer was like a Commodore 64.
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
- ▶ 4:57 Luis von Ahn She instead got me a computer, a Commodore 64, and I couldn't figure out how to use it, but eventually I kind of, I read, like, the manual and stuff, and I figured out how to use it more, and then I figured out I could pirate other…
a16z Podcast | For Your Ears Only
- ▶ 20:36 Matt Spence I mean, right now, I sort of joke, it's like, we only now at the defensive right got a Commodore 64 computer and Windows 95.
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 8:49 Steven Sinofsky There were about seventeen million Commodore 64.
20VC: Why CEOs Must Read Less & Listen Less, What VC Funding, Shelf Space & Time Have In Common & Why CEOs Must Look After Themselves Like Athletes with Sami Inkinen, Founder @ Virta Health & Trulia
- ▶ 3:05 Sami Inkinen For people to use was my very first computer Commodore, 64.
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 2:09 Christian Hernandez I had a Commodore 64 that my dad bought, and I taught myself basic programming.
20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare
- ▶ 3:43 Keith Teare Glued together a Commodore 64 to a typesetting machine so that when authors wrote stuff, we didn't have to retype it before it could be typeset, which was in about 1982 or something, which was way ahead of its time.