Trilogy

“It took three and a half years to actually build the product and convince anybody to buy it. But then as soon as they started to buy, Silicon Graphics bought it, Hewlett Packard bought it, AT&T, IBM, right?”

“We actually trilogy university, you know, there's Harvard business, you know, case studies on it and you can read about it, but we literally had a swap program with the Navy seals. Literally the Navy seals are like, okay, you know, we're going to send a couple…”

“At the end of our trilogy university, a hundred days, you know, if enough of the teams that hit their goals, we would take everybody to Vegas and then we would get everybody around a roulette wheel. And we'd say, you have to bet one month's salary. On the numb…”

“Whether it was Balmer Gates or Mike Maple, the other third in the office of the president. Those three would call all our candidates, and we would just continue to fight, and it would escalate, right?”

“Microsoft would win 90% of college graduates back then. And we against them won 70%.”

“So we bought hundreds of companies since then, but it was nothing. This strategy was just like, oh, wow, some companies are really cheap. Why don't we buy some?”

“Bill Gates literally flew down to Austin. To figure out why we were getting the best graduates.”

“And then we built Trilogy and our claim to fame actually in the nineties, it was the first AI product to sell a billion dollars.”

“After the dot-com meltdown 50% of our cash Customers went out of business”

“We were the most expensive software you could buy in the nineties because we also had super high pricing because we're like, they're not going to buy from us unless they have to.”

“Which is if you can't say the opposite of it, right? Then it's not on the list. Like, so when we were doing the core values of trilogy in the nineties, I was like, well, we obviously have to have integrity on the list. And he's like, Joe, is there ever a compa…”