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How Rick Rubin Works Jan 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene

How Bill Gates Works Sep 24, 2025 · 26 mentions

  • ▶ 13:55 David Senra He meets his future co-founder, Paul Allen at Lakeside. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:18 David Senra I repeated this routine for months, and so he, him and Paul are talking about what kind of business they want to start. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:29 David Senra But Paul and I wanted to build a business.
  • ▶ 37:57 David Senra He's realizing that Paul Allen's not, he's not gonna be his long-term partner.
  • ▶ 42:53 David Senra One of the books that I have a bunch of highlights about Bill that I want to share with you is actually Paul Allen's autobiography, but it's really interesting. 6 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.
  • ▶ 54:21 David Senra Okay, so that leads us to Paul Allen's autobiography that he wrote shortly before he died.
  • ▶ 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. 6 times in the scene

Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World) Mar 5, 2024 · 1 mention

The Biography of Bill Gates Feb 16, 2024 · 39 mentions

  • ▶ 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.
  • ▶ 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. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:03 David Senra Gates and Allen not only looked for bugs, but they also looked for any information that might help them learn more about computers, operating systems, and software. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:57 David Senra I read his co-founder's autobiography, Paul Allen, long, uh, Paul Allen's autobiography a long time ago. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:58 David Senra And it says the names of two bug hunters appeared on nearly every page, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:32 David Senra He, at the same time, he's having all these phone conversations with Paul Allen and he's telling Allen, I'm thinking about dropping out of Harvard. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:23 David Senra And then the decision was made obvious when Paul Allen walks by a magazine stand and sees the latest edition of Popular Electronics Magazine, and on the cover is the world's first minicomputer. 6 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.
  • ▶ 21:44 David Senra When Gates arrived in Albuquerque, he and Alan shared a room. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:22 David Senra A bit, his, in many ways, his very first business partner outside of Paul Allen.
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