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What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
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- ▶ 1:05:25 Mark Pincus Well, one of the best things I got was, and eventually I got to sit down with Jeff, and he took like, he generously spent two hours explaining to me his concept of tech assistants, which originally Andy Grove was the first one to have a…
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- ▶ 1:50:42 Shane Parrish There is this thing that sort of relates to that, which was Bill Gates had this saying, he's like the best, and you know, I have friends living this now, the best technology doesn't win.
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- ▶ 55:18 Shane Parrish You said one of the philanthropists you admire is Bill Gates? 6 times in the scene
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:40:50 Alfred Lin It's funny, because I think in the history of technology changes, it's, and then Bill, I think Bill Gates said this, it's easy.
Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year
- ▶ 5:01 Morgan Housel Bill Gates couldn't control it.
Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- ▶ 7:54 Morgan Housel Bill Gates couldn't control it.
- ▶ 44:49 Morgan Housel You know, there's stories that Bill Gates worked, I think it was 25 years without ever taking a single day off. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:26 Morgan Housel Buffett is obviously that Bill Gates is that there's a handful of people who are 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:45 Morgan Housel The pressure that they have to use that money well, to not end up like the Vanderbilts to, you know, how much pressure does, uh, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have to donate their money effectively.
Best of 2023: Conversations of the Year
- ▶ 1:25:39 Dr. Gio Valiante And that's why proponents of capitalism and free markets, you can just see it in modern day, like the world moves because, because individuals innovate and evolve, whether it's Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos has created eight hundred…
Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 2): Failure and Success
- ▶ 42:36 Dr. Gio Valiante And that's why proponents of capitalism and free markets, you can just see it in modern day, like the world moves because, because individuals innovate and evolve, whether it's Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos has created eight hundred…
Nathan Myhrvold
- ▶ 4:38 Nathan Myhrvold Uh, Bill hoped I would come to my senses after being bored at home, but I wasn't, so, um, I never went back.
- ▶ 5:48 Nathan Myhrvold I had to convince Bill to give me a leave of absence.
Marshall Goldsmith: The Essentials Of Leadership
- ▶ 1:01:10 Marshall Goldsmith He donated, Bill Gates flies to India with Warren Buffett to talk rich people into giving money to the poor. 2 times in the scene
#129 Marc Andreessen: Interview with an Icon
- ▶ 37:16 Marc Andreessen You know, Bill Gates dropped out of college and
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 15:45 Walter Isaacson Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, people who've run great companies.
- ▶ 44:16 Walter Isaacson That's still a debate going on today, whether it's Elon Musk or Bill Gates or many other people. 2 times in the scene
#104 Nir Eyal: Mastering Indistraction
#95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical
- ▶ 8:30 Code Cubitt That didn't happen before, but I think the, the sort of the cache and persona of an entrepreneur is the, the Bill Gates, the, the Zuckerbergs of the world, these, these world changing, amazing, uh, you know, genius types, uh, Bezos,…
- ▶ 36:05 Shane Parrish I might be making this up, but I remember when Microsoft was under the antitrust sort of microscope, and I think Bill Gates said something to the effect of the best technology doesn't win. 2 times in the scene
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 1:12:22 Bethany McLean I was tired, and I remember thinking, oh, I can ask him about giving his money away to Bill and Melinda Gates, and this is going to be awesome because all billionaires like to talk about all the good they're doing in the world and how…
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 15:59 Mike Maples Jr. And, and, you know, that's why people like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are so rare 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:16 Mike Maples Jr. So, you know, Steve Jobs, super charismatic, obviously, but Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, I wouldn't say are, you know, a standard deviation, more charismatic than most people.
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 1:28:56 Jim Collins In response to that luck event, Gates recognizes its value, goes all over it once they come back from Pacific Grove, and looks at it and says, well, we don't have an operating system, but maybe we can get one.
- ▶ 2:21:03 Jim Collins I think the shift that Bill Gates has taken from running Microsoft to leading in about world health in the foundation with his wife, Melinda, those are really different in context.
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 54:29 Daniel Gross to finish books, and I actually heard Bill Gates actually say something similar recently. 2 times in the scene
#50 Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future
- ▶ 7:38 Josh Wolfe I mean, Steve Jobs or Zuckerberg or Bill Gates or Larry Ellison, like that was their first foray and it's just had this founder passion and,
- ▶ 18:11 Josh Wolfe And case after case of starting a company in a crazy area like Meta Materials, which led to this company called Kymeta, which I co-founded with Bill Gates. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:05 Josh Wolfe Gets tapped by Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:32 Josh Wolfe And it's interesting because Bill Gates, in a sense, was notorious for that.
- ▶ 1:29:14 Shane Parrish The first is what have you learned from working with Bill Gates and sitting in a room watching him work and being a part of what you guys are doing together? 18 times in the scene
#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
- ▶ 35:50 Gary Taubes I just kept telling you, you, you know, you said, Gary, why is, you know, let's talk about why, why is Bill Gates so rich?