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What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success Sep 1, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 50:45 unnamed speaker That's what Windows was. 2 times in the scene

Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03:59 Benedict Evans So everyone bought a Windows PC, but they were using it to do, to do web stuff, not Microsoft stuff.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders Apr 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:15:01 Garry Tan It's like asking, like, uh, I guess will Windows or Mac win or, you know, we're just literally living through that time where very, very smart people are, you know, fighting over the marbles right now.

Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier Apr 15, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:33:48 Bret Taylor Um, we found this, uh, small company with, like, four people in it, if I'm remembering correctly, started by Lars and Jens Rasmussen called Where To Technologies, where, um, they had made a Windows application called Expedition, um, that… 6 times in the scene

TKP Insights: Making (Even) Better Decisions Oct 25, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:23 Venkatesh Rao So it's like I'm trying to run a Windows program on a Mac computer without realizing it.

Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State Apr 5, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:51:34 Balaji Srinivasan People kept making money doing windows programming in the 2020 tens, and you could make money and you can still make money doing that.

#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key Jan 5, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 12:29 Matt Mullenweg So, uh, we've always targeted, and I got this, there seemed to be sort of a law of platforms, um, going all the way back to like DOS and Windows. 3 times in the scene

#93 Matt Holland: Zero Day Sep 29, 2020 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 36:42 Shane Parrish Uh, let's walk through Windows. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:19 Shane Parrish Like, is it the same sort of system that you would use for Windows or Apple? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:13 Matthew Holland It's a series of tools from, uh, NSA that got leaked, um, Windows vulnerabilities, you know, went to WikiLeaks. 2 times in the scene

#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future Mar 3, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 48:04 Mike Maples Jr. You know, you can say, okay, I'm coming out with windows for college students, or I'm coming out with smart water rather than fancy packaged gourmet water.
  • ▶ 51:27 Mike Maples Jr. Nobody can build windows apps without being co-opted.

#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion Oct 1, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:29:09 Jim Collins He gets this QDOS thing and a variety of other things, and then it's the return on luck, and then building upon that, right, the flywheel effect of Windows. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:58:46 Jim Collins And put it over on a Windows machine. 2 times in the scene

#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game Aug 6, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:08 Hugh Howey We'll learn to trust them like the way, um, we trusted, uh, Apple's operating system over Windows. 2 times in the scene

#7 Venkatesh Rao: The Three Types of Decision Makers Jan 28, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:24 Venkatesh Rao So it's like I'm trying to run a Windows program on a Mac computer without realizing it.
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