Trilogy
company on 2 shows · 4 statements across 1 episodes · said 13 times in 2 episodes since 2025
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Lonsdale: Bill Gates considered Trilogy Microsoft's only 1990s talent competitor
“I remember Bill Gates came down and said, you're the only person now competing me for talent in the 19 nineties, and you just crushed it there.”
Liemandt: Trilogy was the first AI enterprise product to hit $1B
“Our claim to fame was we were the first AI product to sell a billion dollars”
Liemandt: Trilogy relocated 2,000 top graduates to Austin to build workforce
“And so the way we solved it is we brought down 2000 Ivy League grads or top talent and had them move to Austin.”
Liemandt: Elite college graduates want grueling challenges, not corporate pampering
“They want to be challenged. And I remember just having discussions with other companies. I'm like, you're trying to babysit them and make it nice. And they don't want to, you know, do a gas cap, you know, if they literally want to come down here, work hard, sh…”