Bill Gates, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Benedict Evans 10Toni Cowan-Brown 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bill Gates comes up
AI and Everything Else
- ▶ 7:21 Benedict Evans I think there's a sort of a second case, which is captured by a great Bill Gates quote, partial quote from the beginning of this year, which is, no, this is a lot bigger than a platform shift.
- ▶ 19:08 Benedict Evans We don't kind of have that for this stuff, regardless of whether you buy the Bill Gates thesis or indeed whether you're worried about AGI.
Bundling/Unbundling AI
- ▶ 0:33 Benedict Evans Like, I'll stop monologuing, but the, the sort of, the basic observation is, so here we have this, these, these, these, this ChatGPT, these LLMs, that look like a generalized computing platform, and even if you don't think it's going to go…
- ▶ 10:23 Benedict Evans And this is Bill Gates's point that GUIs replace command lines.
When the point of leverage changes
- ▶ 36:27 Benedict Evans I mean, when Bill Gates was on every magazine cover, Microsoft was a small company that sold accounting tools to big companies.
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 30:50 Benedict Evans And it's a great moment where Bill Gates thinks that, you know, Microsoft office file format is a key strategic asset and they need to leverage that on the internet.
The Meta reality
- ▶ 15:25 Benedict Evans Um, there's also, I mean, somebody pointed out a kind of an overlap with the way Bill Gates became sort of obsessed with, you know, the future of computing in the early 2000.
Who's in the office? Notes on a year of remote work.
- ▶ 23:02 Toni Cowan-Brown I don't know if you've noticed, um, it happened with like Bill Gates, um, did a conversation on clubhouse.
- ▶ 35:55 Benedict Evans Um, there is this famous thing of, um, when Microsoft did its investment in Apple, well, famous amongst technology geek geeks, that when Microsoft invested in Apple in, like, maybe 97, Bill Gates did a video call in to WWDC, which is a…
Bezos and the Amazon machine
- ▶ 1:50 Benedict Evans Um, Bill Gates, obviously, had been there for 30 years or however long it was, and it was time to do something else.
How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
- ▶ 2:30 Benedict Evans And so the sort of first observation would be that when Bill Gates was on every magazine cover, tech industry was kind of small.