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Rabois: Meta, Google, and Apple cannot accurately assess undiscovered talent
“So you've got to go find people who haven't yet proven what they can do that these large organizations think meta, Think Google, think Apple, think Amazon, think Microsoft, or even these days open AI. They don't know how to assess these people.”
Lieberman: Microsoft Learned of Altman's Ouster One Minute Before Announcement
“To cause the board to make this move, a move that Microsoft, OpenAI's biggest investor, found out about one minute before the press release and ended up losing fifty billion dollars in market cap from as their stock continued to trade.”
Pujji: TikTok is the exact asset Microsoft has wanted for two decades
“Microsoft, on the other hand, this is the asset they've been waiting for like two decades.”
Lieberman: Microsoft got its break by selling IBM an unbuilt OS
“Microsoft, perhaps the most successful tech company in history, got its break when Bill Gates sold IBM an operating system he didn't have.”
Pujji: Microsoft Teams is roughly five times the size of Slack
“Apparently Teams is like five times the size of Slack now. Because Microsoft owns the enterprise”
Pujji: Bill Gates has worked on philanthropy longer than he ran Microsoft
“Bill Gates was like very fear driven.
That's very well known.
And it couldn't, he began the richest man in the world and it couldn't sustain him.
So he flips all the way to like curing polio.
And he's been doing that now longer than he's been doing Microsoft.”