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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 8:16 Ben Gilbert Well, I did computer science undergrad, ended up going to Microsoft, working there as a program manager on Office for iPad, which was super fun to work on that at the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:03 Ben Gilbert But then the unbelievable, magical invention that Microsoft had in the nineties of we can copy software, and then we have zero marginal cost in creating that next
- ▶ 1:05:26 Ben Gilbert And Greg is the person that made time for me when he was a general partner at a venture firm, and I was a twenty-two-year-old newbie at Microsoft, who met with me quarterly to mentor me, who ultimately pulled me out of Microsoft and let me… 2 times in the scene