David Packard
person on 13 shows · 7 statements across 3 episodes · said 161 times in 30 episodes since 2018
Founders 127 
How I Built This 11 
the a16z Podcast 5 
American Optimist 3 
David Senra 3 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2 
the Knowledge Project 2 
the Neon Show 2 
Top Founders 2 
Acquired 1 
BigDeal 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
All-In 1
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2026 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2025 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2024 122 mentions in 8 episodes 15 per episode
- David Packard (Founder of HP)
- Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
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- Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
- Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
- Oprah In Her Own Words
- What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
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2023 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2020 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 1667 Top Tech Journalist Predicts We'll All Be Unemployed, Blockchain Takeover, Less Taxes!
- Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
- Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
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2019 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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7 statements about David Packard, every show
Senra: More businesses die from indigestion and overcomplication than starvation
“Most bit more businesses dive indigestion than starvation. It's like, they just try to do too much. They essentially sabotage themselves.”
Sankar: DoD 5000 acquisition guidelines expanded from seven to over 2,000 pages
“When David Packard, Silicon Valley founder, created the 5000 series, it was seven pages. It's now more than 2000 pages. That's a compounded growth rate of 11% a year.”
Packard and Bezos share the core philosophy of customer obsession
“Something Jeff repeats over and over and over again in his letters is that you need to obsess over customers. That's the exact same message that David Packard is writing in that introduction.”
David Packard set the ultimate Silicon Valley founder career standard
“In the Valley, the ultimate career standard was set by David Packard. Start a company in a garage. Grow it into a leading innovator in its field. Take it public, and then take it into the Fortune 500. Then take it into the Fortune 50. Then become the spokesman…”
Hewlett-Packard surpassed the 1930s size of General Electric
“Our electronics firm, HP, has become larger than the entire General Electric company was at the time that he gave me this advice.”
Bill Hewlett and David Packard founded HP before choosing a product
“The product ideas we discussed included high frequency receivers and medical equipment, and it was noted that we should make every attempt to keep up on the newly announced technology of television. And so the reason that is important is because he's telling y…”
HP computer sales grew from zero in 1964 to $20B in 1994
“In 1994, HP sales and computer products were twenty billion dollars, 30 years earlier. Okay. So 1994, they're making twenty billion from computer products. In 1964, 30 years before, our sales total were just a hundred and twenty five million, and they were ent…”