WordPerfect
product on 11 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 39 times in 26 episodes since 2015
the a16z Podcast 13 
20VC 6 
Acquired 5 
My First Million 4 
Another Podcast 3 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
All-In 2 
Founders 1 
the Knowledge Project 1 
No Priors 1 
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Elias Torres got his start in tech using a stolen IBM computer
“He bought, like, a stolen computer. Like, people came and sold him, you know, and so I, he put it in the garage, and he said, go play with it. And so that's, it's like an IBM computer, like, you know, in the eighties, and I would be typing my homework in this …”
Godin: Microsoft Word defeated WordPerfect through network effects in file formatting
“That's how Microsoft beat word perfect because Microsoft word was the format you needed your coworkers to work in. If you were using a modern computer, because if they insisted on using word perfect, then you were stuck with word perfect. Whereas they had a mi…”