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Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
- ▶ 23:39 David Senra The early days of Microsoft, it was the same way. 2 times in the scene
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 16:27 David Senra Think about the early days of Microsoft.
- ▶ 40:09 David Senra And in that book, it said Steve didn't give his team much formal feedback during the U S versus Microsoft antitrust case. 2 times in the scene
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
- ▶ 37:41 David Senra In previous nomad letters, we have argued that the biggest error an investor can make is the sale of Walmart or Microsoft in the early stages of the company's growth.
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- ▶ 1:01:55 David Senra And he gives the example of Microsoft with truly great companies. 2 times in the scene
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
- ▶ 25:21 David Senra And so he talks about Microsoft or Intel, or even going way deep into business history with this company called National Cash Register.
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,…
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 25:25 David Senra And it compares the operating system upgrades of Apple and Windows.
- ▶ 25:37 David Senra Microsoft was offering Windows Vista at this time,
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 35:31 David Senra Think about the decades people made fun of him because Microsoft had all this market share.
Texas Oil Billionaire Monty Moncrief
- ▶ 15:15 David Senra When a surfer gets up and catches the wave and just stays there, he can go for a long, long time, but if he gets off the wave, he becomes mired in the shallows, but people get long runs when they're right on the edge of the wave, whether…
- ▶ 58:19 David Senra It's the first, like, 35 years of his life because it ends at the Microsoft IPO, and I was rereading the highlights because he, young Bill Gates had, there's this line that says, like, this monomaniacal quality, and essentially what I'm…
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 19:02 David Senra It can't be like Apple, Microsoft, just like,
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 54:16 David Senra And so he uses the example of Microsoft or Intel, and then this company that he loves, he talks about over and over again, national cash register, which 3 times in the scene
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.
The Biography of Anna Wintour
- ▶ 50:56 David Senra They are expected to have like a blank word document up because as soon as she walks in the door,
- ▶ 57:00 David Senra When Microsoft was on the rise, she came back to the office and talked about how attractive she thought he was, and the person she's saying to this, her last name is Jones, and she goes, Jones just thought, God, she's attracted to people…
Working with Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 15:04 David Senra So this is when they kick out PowerPoint and they switch to these narratives. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:50 David Senra From now on, your presentation software is Microsoft Word, not PowerPoint.
- ▶ 25:06 David Senra Half-baked thinking was harder to disguise on the written page than in PowerPoint slides.
- ▶ 34:50 David Senra Jobs got to the real purpose of the meeting and announced that Apple had just finished building their first Windows application. 4 times in the scene
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 28:54 David Senra So they get an offer from, Microsoft's just one of these companies. 3 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 5:30 David Senra Steve hated where there was, like, no spirit, no taste, no humanity in the products, and so he was talking about, in 1986, he said, listen, Microsoft, you have to admire what they built, you know, they're, they're extremely aggressive,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:03 David Senra I don't quite know how to express it, but it has to do with the fact that Apple is the only alternative to windows and that Apple can still inject some new thinking into the equation.
- ▶ 1:22:17 David Senra We did many things, but the three things that stood out in people's minds were we brought a new management to run the company, a new board of directors that got some phenomenally experienced people on it, and we did a deal with Microsoft,…
- ▶ 1:53:23 David Senra If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would never have had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them either.
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 1:12:08 David Senra And I think if you listen to episode two 90, or if you read the book that the episode is about hard drive, Bill Gates in the making of the Microsoft empire, you'd realize that he had complete focus on it. 2 times in the scene
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.
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
- ▶ 24:04 David Senra Let Microsoft create the operating system for the IBM PC. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 0:20 David Senra Microsoft, the company that he and Paul Allen had founded 16 years earlier, had become the first software company in history to sell more than a billion dollars worth of products in a single year. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:30 David Senra Intense is exactly what a young Bill Gates obsession with the computer was, and the second reason was he's about to meet Paul Allen, which is going to be a few years from now, his co-founder of Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:40 David Senra That he had in high school, that he had in college, that he's gonna have his entire time running Microsoft.
- ▶ 14:19 David Senra And so there's a ton of stories in the book in the early days of Microsoft that people would just walk in the office in the morning, and they trip over, like, Gage just sleeping on the floor, or sleeping on his desk, or curl up in the…
- ▶ 18:28 David Senra And so this is going to be the first project of what turns into Microsoft.
- ▶ 20:57 David Senra And this is another main theme that is repeated over and over and over again in the book is just how financially conservative Bill Gates was when he was running Microsoft. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:48 David Senra And so the agreement that Microsoft has with MITS at the time 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:51 David Senra Is that, hey, you're going to pay us a license fee for every computer that you sell that contains our basic, and there's going to be a dispute on how exclusive this license agreement should be. 4 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. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:55 David Senra And so this is what's going to set the stage for IBM and Microsoft to work together. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:44 David Senra And so the book goes into a lot more detail about the development of the partnership between Microsoft and IBM. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:04 David Senra And so we go back to this main theme that appears over and over again in the book, over and over again in documentaries about the early days of Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:09 David Senra So at the time Microsoft's doing this massive expansion into 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:16 David Senra And so they're actually developing what is eventually going to turn into Microsoft Word. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:03 David Senra Microsoft, on the other hand, was a bunch of individualists, with the whole show run minute to minute by Bill Gates. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:54 David Senra Microsoft has to go public. 14 times in the scene
Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 18:04 David Senra And so he uses example like Microsoft or Intel.
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick's Bitter Partnership
- ▶ 21:54 David Senra But Bill Gates, at the very beginning of Microsoft, it was him, his secretary, and I think 28, I think the first 30, uh, employees of Microsoft, if I'm remembering correctly, was Bill Gates, his secretary, and 28 programmers, and it said… 2 times in the scene
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 1:03:49 David Senra They will not do PowerPoint. 2 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
- ▶ 5:05 David Senra Of course, to quickly grow into the next Microsoft.