Bill Gates
4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jun 13, 2024 by Jeffrey Pfeffer · said 13 times in 7 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Mike Maples, Jr. (6), Rory Sutherland (2), Roger Martin (1), Oji Udezue (1), Lenny Rachitsky (1), Jeffrey Pfeffer (1), Brian Chesky (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- 5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)
- The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford)
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2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Bill Gates, oldest first
Jun 13, 2024 negative
Jul 25, 2024 positive
Martin: Four Seasons shifted in 1980s to hotel management, exiting property ownership
“Four Seasons, the hotel company, luxury hotel, chose a completely different choice on the vertical stage where to play back in the eighties, they said, we're going to get out of real estate development. So buying land and getting it zoned for hotels. We're goi…”
Mar 6, 2025 negative
Zhao: Jobs and Gates focusing on GUI over Smalltalk caused SaaS sprawl
“He only saw the graphic user interface. He did not see the underlying object oriented environment power. As the generation of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates bring, make PC personal computing popular. And they sort of stuck with this kind of application framework ra…”