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How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 17:33 David Senra There's a great, uh, there's a great anecdote and a great story from the early days of Bill Gates' career when he was building Microsoft. 5 times in the scene
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 3:58 David Senra The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system.
- ▶ 39:08 David Senra So like Michael Dell's in the book, Steve Jobs in the book, Bill Gates is in the book, and a bunch of other founders that had a company at the time and then disappeared are also in the book.
- ▶ 51:12 David Senra In some ways, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were opposites. 2 times in the scene
The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 26:29 David Senra It has a quote from Bill Gates.
How Rick Rubin Works
- ▶ 1:02:35 David Senra That's exactly what convinced Paul Allen and Bill Gates to stop focusing on school and going all in on Microsoft. 3 times in the scene
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 5:50 David Senra One of the biggest enemies he ever picks in his entire life is Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:37 David Senra Later on, we'll go into a lot of detail of this fight, this intentional fight that he picks against Bill Gates and Microsoft and how beneficial the positioning was.
- ▶ 52:14 David Senra Even Bill Gates' business strategy is just a copy of Standard Oil's strategy back in the 18 seventies. 19 times in the scene
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 24:31 David Senra That to push himself and his company, and one enemy that he picked was Bill Gates, and the whole thing that Larry, Larry's point was like, you want a foe worthy of your steel. 6 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra I want to start with a quote by Bill Gates on Bill Gates, and then I want to tell you this excellent Larry Ellison quote on Bill Gates that I found. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34 David Senra So recently Bill Gates just wrote an autobiography. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:11 David Senra A lot of this that I pull off from source code is you see one of the things that the genius things that Bill Gates did is he designed a company that was natural to him that benefited 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:40 David Senra This is something Bill Gates understood intuitively and implemented incessantly. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:22 David Senra So in addition to having a distaste for inefficiency, a distaste for waste, having the ability to hyper focus to other traits of Bill Gates that are present in his early childhood. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:57 David Senra All I know is there's one book on Bill Gates that has to be on that list, one of my favorite books I've ever read. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:59 David Senra And there's something that Bill Gates says in a few different books. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 David Senra My approach was rapid fire in your face. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:00 David Senra And so when Bill Gates goes to Harvard, he goes back to the exact same working style. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:54 David Senra It is so odd that Bill, it goes back to, you know, the ego and having a lot of confidence that I mentioned that Michael Dell said, and that Bill Gates, you know, everybody around him reported seeing him when he was earlier. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:47 David Senra Now I want to go back to this reoccurring theme that Bill Gates wanted to be hardcore. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:13 David Senra That is one of my favorite descriptions of a young Bill Gates. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:33 David Senra When you have extreme success, like Bill Gates has had, there's no way that they could have possibly predicted the scale of their success.
- ▶ 39:04 David Senra So Bill is going to write two more autobiographies. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:02 David Senra There's a great quote from Bill Gates in Hard Drive. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:24 David Senra Part of what made Microsoft so successful during the company's infancy was the team of programmers that Gates and Allen began to assemble in the spring of 1976. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:40 David Senra And so one of my favorite parts of this book is just, again, it goes into this ruthless competitive drive that Bill Gates had. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:26 David Senra As you can imagine, there's a bunch of interesting stories and anecdotes about Bill Gates in it. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:41 David Senra So then Paul goes into Bill's thinking on their most important deal in the early days, Microsoft, which obviously there's a deal with IBM that's been covered over and over again. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:25 David Senra So all the words you're about to hear are just Bill Gates in 97. 10 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:58:18 David Senra A few pages later, they print out this joint interview that Steve Jobs, I think it's the last joint interview that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates gave. 3 times in the scene
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 29:31 David Senra In fact, that was one of his, um, his criticisms of Bill Gates, you know, the fact that he thought Microsoft made unbelievably ugly and, and, you know, just not well-designed products. 2 times in the scene
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 20:00 David Senra Michael Dell's in there, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs.
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 1:32:16 David Senra And Michael Dell's in the book, Steve Jobs is in the book, Bill Gates, Bill Hewlett, Andy Grove.
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 41:51 David Senra So like Michael Dell's in there, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, all these other people as well.
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 21:45 David Senra Rockefeller to Sam Walton to Bill Gates, great financial success comes from starting businesses with concrete products in the real world, building jobs, creating value and helping people.
The Life Story of Jerry Jones: Owner of The Dallas Cowboys
- ▶ 55:28 David Senra It's called Hard Drive, Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, if I remember correctly. 4 times in the scene
Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
- ▶ 23:41 David Senra The first 30 employees of Microsoft, there were 28 engineers, Bill Gates, and a secretary.
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 16:29 David Senra One of my favorite all-time biographies is of a young Bill Gates. 3 times in the scene
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
- ▶ 42:02 David Senra Sam Walton did not make his money through diversifying his holdings, nor did Bill Gates, Andrew Carnegie, or John D.
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- ▶ 1:02:00 David Senra Think about Bill Gates, how Bill Gates started Microsoft.
The Inside Story of America's Richest Man: Sam Walton
- ▶ 49:59 David Senra The way I think about Sam's affable country boy personality with what's really inside, when I read a biography on a young Bill Gates, excellent book if you haven't read it yet, it's called Hard Drive, The Making of the Microsoft Empire,… 3 times in the scene
The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf
- ▶ 15:23 David Senra I think he was on stage with Bill Gates, if I remember correctly.
Texas Oil Billionaire Monty Moncrief
- ▶ 58:15 David Senra It's a, it's a biography on Bill Gates, but what I love about it is like, 4 times in the scene
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 1:01:10 David Senra Uh, Bill Gates talks about his obsession, the founder of
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 55:55 David Senra Uh, he tries, he almost does a deal where he sells to Bill Gates and Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Anna Wintour
- ▶ 56:53 David Senra And so it says looks didn't seem to be what Anna primarily admired in men after a lunch with Bill Gates.
Herb Kelleher: Founder of Southwest Airlines
- ▶ 35:47 David Senra And so this next quote from Bill Gates actually combines two of these ideas that is a main reoccurring theme in the life and the career and in this book of Herb Keller, the fact that he wants to be flexible so he can adapt to new… 2 times in the scene
The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
- ▶ 25:54 David Senra He states in that book, he's like, listen, Bill Gates is a grant as a grinder. 3 times in the scene
Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
- ▶ 14:09 David Senra Uh, Larry Ellison's conspicuous consumption needs, nor Bill Gates philanthropic impulses, nor the competitive urge to see how high on the Forbes list he could get.
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:56:44 David Senra A few pages later, they print out, uh, this, this joint interview that, uh, Steve Jobs, I think it's the last joint interview that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, uh, gave, um, and they're on stage together. 3 times in the scene
Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
- ▶ 9:42 David Senra Uh, and a young Bill Gates sitting there reading, I forgot what it was, like Forbes magazine or Fortune magazine, I think they're like 12 or 13, and they're thinking of, oh my god, one day do you think we'll be able to run a company?
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 1:11:27 David Senra It was in one of the books, I can't remember if it was on the Bill Gates biography that I just recently did, 7 times in the scene
The Biography of Napoleon
- ▶ 3:35 David Senra Anywhere from Henry Clay Frick, to Edison, to Larry Ellison, to Julio Lobo, which is the last billionaire, uh, in Cuba before Castro took over, to Aristotle Onassis, to Bill Gates, to Andrew Carnegie.
The Making of McDonald's: The Biography of Ray Kroc
- ▶ 4:33 David Senra The early days on episode two 90, the early days of Microsoft and Bill Gates, the fact that he would refuse to sell his software for a fixed price and instead get paid for every copy in perpetuity. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:41 David Senra And this part is exactly why I wanted to read this book right now in the sequence that I'm reading it in, given what I told you about Ralph Lauren, Bill Gates, and Daniel Ludwig at the beginning.
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
- ▶ 23:21 David Senra It's gonna be very similar to the, to what we just went over with Bill Gates, I think on episode two 90.
David Packard (Founder of HP)
- ▶ 7:28 David Senra A young Bill Gates did this exact same thing. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 0:04 David Senra A remarkable collection of individuals led by one man, Bill Gates, whose drive, genius, vision, and entrepreneurial spirit created one of the great success stories in the history of American business. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:05 David Senra Spread throughout the first chapters, all these different descriptions from people that knew Bill when he was younger. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:26 David Senra When Bill was going into seventh grade, his parents did something that was important. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:15 David Senra Bill and a couple of the other boys at Lakeside were really actually good at identifying and then fixing bugs. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:14 David Senra Back to more descriptions about a young Bill Gates. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:06 David Senra So at this point in the story, Gates is a senior in high school, and this is where he's gonna get a full-time job. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:54 David Senra So most of his time in college was not spent on his classes. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:37 David Senra What's so fascinating about this time in Bill's life is he just wasn't sure where to direct his monomaniacal focus. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:36 David Senra He needed somebody to write software for the computer, and he tells Paul and Bill, whoever shows up first with a working version of BASIC will get the deal. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:52 David Senra And so Bill drops out of Harvard, moves to Albuquerque, where MITS is headquartered. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:00 David Senra Gates is out there selling it to a bunch of other hardware makers, but Ed Roberts, the founder of MITS, gets in the way constantly. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:32 David Senra And so again, I just have to reiterate how lean Bill Gates ran Microsoft four years in. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:39 David Senra And it's this guy from IBM meeting a very young Bill Gates. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:34 David Senra Bill sold five percent of Microsoft for a million dollars to technology venture investors. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:10 David Senra Bill Gates was ruthless. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:55 David Senra And so a major criticism people would fling at a young Bill Gates was that, oh, he's arrogant. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:19 David Senra And so at this point in history, we were in the Bill Gates book is that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are just taking a ton of ideas from the, from Xerox PARC, which was a research and development company in Palo Alto owned by Xerox. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:52 David Senra So eventually Bill realizes there's no avoiding. 22 times in the scene
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick's Bitter Partnership
- ▶ 21:45 David Senra That was one of the most surprising things I learned when I read that fantastic, uh, biography of the first 35 years of Bill Gates' life. 3 times in the scene
Working With Steve Jobs
- ▶ 18:11 David Senra They were still, if you bought an Apple device, it would have Microsoft Internet Explorer on it as part of the deal that, uh, that Steve worked out with Bill Gates when he got that invention, uh, investment from Microsoft.
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- ▶ 49:46 David Senra And he ends this chapter with a quote from Bill Gates that I've never seen before, which illustrates this point effectively.
Peter Thiel's Ideas
- ▶ 0:05 David Senra In some ways, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were opposites. 2 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays Part II
- ▶ 11:29 David Senra Bill Gates, for example, was among the smartest people in business in his era, but he was also among the hardest working. 2 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 34:59 David Senra There are plenty of people as smart as Bill Gates who achieve nothing.
- ▶ 59:08 David Senra Paul makes that point with, with Bill Gates specifically a few times where he's like, listen, without that, yeah, Bill Gates is smart. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:32 David Senra Founders one 40, which is the best Bill Gates biography that I've read so far, because it covers just the 35 years, the first 35 years of his life.
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 44:36 David Senra It's two Stanford MBA students who are interviewing 16 technology company founders, uh, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, all these people on there.
- ▶ 50:29 David Senra Would you want to have more money than, say, Bill Gates?
The Biography of Thomas Edison
- ▶ 4:13 David Senra And Buffett is talking about being at dinner, or I guess drinks maybe, with Bill Gates and Bill Gates' dad. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 28:36 David Senra Uh, their careers weave in and out of each other's for decades, and that's Bill Gates. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:42 David Senra So let's go to what, again, I love studying the early days of Bill Gates. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:13 David Senra Psychologically and emotionally, signing on with IBM was every bit as complicated for Steve as begging Bill Gates to support his computer. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:03 David Senra He's saying, listen, this guy knew more about managing and motivating creative people than anyone I've met, including Sony's founder, Akia Morita, Intel's Andy Grove, Bill Gates, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Southwest Airlines, Herb Keller.
- ▶ 57:51 David Senra He, so he calls up Bill Gates, and this is Bill Gates on Steve's simplicity. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:07 David Senra So Mike Slade is going to wind up being close friends with both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, but he did not have a formal position.
- ▶ 1:16:58 David Senra And I'm going to read some notes that I have took from years back about synthesizing this in a minute, but I want to read you Bill Gates on Steve Jobs' Disney negotiation, because Bill's, again, Bill's a main character in the book. 5 times in the scene