Bill Gates, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bill Gates comes up
Scaling DoorDash to market dominance | Christopher Payne (Former COO, DoorDash)
- ▶ 19:14 Christopher Payne So I was in Microsoft coming into Amazon, and Microsoft's a very challenging environment, very competitive environment, uh, and when, you know, Bill challenges you, you respond with force.
- ▶ 1:01:27 Christopher Payne Bill Gates is like that.
Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 1:10:54 Sam Chaudhary He was like, you know, um, he told us a story about how Bill Gates wrote an article about Yahoo saying like how cool it was.
Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
- ▶ 4:31 Qasar Younis I think it was like, uh, Bill Gates has this line about whatever you're obsessed with when you're in your teenage years is like kind of a good indication.
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
- ▶ 37:19 Steve Blank Don't laugh, because I managed to figure out how to get someone to call Bill Gates, because that was the other thing I did was I had an advisory board of potential chess pieces, and one of them was Gordon Bell, who was a mentor of mine who… 2 times in the scene