Microsoft, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
How Rockefeller Worked
- ▶ 51:20 David Senra This reminds me of Microsoft does very similar things, a 120 years later.
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 39:09 David Senra He's saying, no, no, Oracle may not be as well known as IBM or Microsoft, but that's our class. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:41 David Senra And so he's talking about two companies that Microsoft killed, and I don't know if I've said this to you already, but he's just excessively likable. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:47 David Senra I like to quote Steve jobs when he said that the thing that really bothers him about Microsoft is not how successful they are or how much money they have. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:58 David Senra He said everybody at the time was so scared of Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 1:38 David Senra It covers his early childhood and his life up until founding Microsoft and a few short years after that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:24 David Senra And one of the ways this manifested was Bill was obsessed with cost control, and he is constantly hounding everyone in the company about it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:34 David Senra That will never leave him or are very present as he's building Microsoft is the fact that he is ruthlessly competitive and full of energy.
- ▶ 10:03 David Senra Bill Gates and the making of a Microsoft empire. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:17 David Senra You obviously wouldn't start Microsoft today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:41 David Senra Microsoft was going to be a software factory. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:55 David Senra He talks about himself out of everybody, out of his co-founders, out of all the people working at Microsoft. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:43 David Senra And at the time it looked like one of the worst things can happen to Microsoft. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:29 David Senra Driven by the sense of responsibility I felt for Microsoft, I had closed the hatch door and locked the wheel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:06 David Senra The second one is going to be focused on building Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:39 David Senra And so the first highlight from hard drive that I'm gonna talk to you about is the fact that by 1990, remember they're having these starting Microsoft late seventies, 76, 77. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:19 David Senra The way that it would describe the early employees at Microsoft, they called them microkids. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:25 David Senra And I think it was interesting because now we've fast forwarded in Microsoft's history and we see that this focus and intensity is still there. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:27 David Senra Lotus lost ground because it was very late in catching the two biggest technology waves, the Macintosh and Windows.
- ▶ 55:31 David Senra Microsoft was a high stress environment because Bill drove others as hard as he drove himself. 5 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. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:04 David Senra And Microsoft's price is less than half of X dollars. 5 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 5:30 David Senra He said, listen, Microsoft, you have to admire what they built. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:56 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.
- ▶ 1:25:12 David Senra A new board of directors that got some phenomenally experienced people on it, and we did a deal with Microsoft, the largest software company in the world, wanting to help Apple was a fact that didn't escape very many people, and it added a…
- ▶ 1:55:03 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.
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.
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 1:10:43 David Senra We don't do PowerPoints.
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 18:26 David Senra They chose DOS for Microsoft and Intel, uh, they were such a huge and powerful company, such an American institution.
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 21:09 David Senra Think about the money that Microsoft makes today compared to what they made in 1919 90.
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 28:28 David Senra I think it was with probably like with Google might've been with Microsoft, but they subpoenaed all of like the, the employee records.
The Life Story of Jerry Jones: Owner of The Dallas Cowboys
- ▶ 55:22 David Senra I told you this before, but one of my favorite all-time biographies I've ever read is like the early days of Microsoft. 4 times in the scene