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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bill Gates comes up
27 year old Founder exited for $169m at $50m ARR. How much cash did he take home at exit?
- ▶ 6:13 Ryan Allis We did the same thing with Microsoft List Builder back in 2003 when they were around, and what we got was a cease and desist letter from Bill Gates' dad's law firm.
How Hirize Hit $14k MRR in 60 Days
- ▶ 14:03 Ezra Kagan Uh, Bill Gates.
Customer Empathy: The key to 10Xing your company
- ▶ 19:03 Alex Yampolskiy You always have to work on it and continuously get out of bed and think about how you evolve, but those are some of the things that work for us, and as I mentioned, this quote by Bill Gates is very relevant.
Gong of Japan Hits $20m Revenue with just $15m Raised! Prime Takeover Target?
- ▶ 19:26 Takeshi "TK" Aida Um, I would say my dad, but, um, uh, what I respect most is, uh, Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
Why he spent $8k on his MVP and how he got first paying customer today
- ▶ 16:17 Roland Yumekoro Yeah, there was, which was Bill Gates.
How To Run 1000 TV Commercials For your SaaS Without A Ton of Work
- ▶ 15:33 Eric Frankel Um, I don't think I understood that every day, whether you're 20 or whether you're 64, you get smarter and better at what you do, and, you know, you don't know it all, and you'll never actually know it all, and even the Bill Gates's or the…
$800k Bootstrapped SaaS Spun Out of $3m Agency, how'd she do it?
- ▶ 14:57 Valerie Peck I, I love, uh, well, I used to love Bill Gates a lot more, but I really like his blog and his information, and Warren Buffett is my idol.
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation
- ▶ 15:57 Luke Feeney I suppose I'd say, I'll say Bill Gates.
Why he raised $150k at $4m Pre Seed Round
- ▶ 17:09 Nick Ofosio I would say super cliche, Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
$70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?
- ▶ 21:16 Benny Schneider Uh, probably in my case, it will be Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
India Based SaaS hits $20k MRR, Growing Fast with 160k Users
- ▶ 14:36 Madhavi Shankar Yes, I, I actually kind of read recently, um, you know, a book about Elon Musk, and I also read a book about Bill Gates and how we founded Microsoft, so that was pretty interesting.
SalesChoice Bootstrapped to $1m in ARR on Salesforce, Now Raising $2-3m
- ▶ 13:45 Dr. Cindy Gordon I still follow Bill Gates.
He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate
- ▶ 19:37 John O'Shull I wish that I would have, uh, been more like, uh, the Bill Gates is, you know, when I was 20 years old, it was 1982.
Physna Raises $7m More for Geometric Deep Learning in 3d
- ▶ 16:35 Paul Powers I've read a lot from Bill Gates. 3 times in the scene
AgentRisk Has $27m in AUM, Better Version of Family Office?
- ▶ 18:29 John Vlachogiannis Uh, I want to say a little bit Bill Gates, uh, because I love the way that he created Microsoft, uh, and I'm following him on his newsletter, the books that he proposes. 2 times in the scene
Vid.Camera Sells $20m in Tokens, Converting 100% to Fiat for New Facebook Where Creators Own Upside
- ▶ 15:27 Jagat Singh Um, Bill Gates.
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions
- ▶ 18:46 Ferris Spetty Uh, so I, I gave a TEDx talk and I gave this quote by Bill Gates.
HumanProofDesigns Hit $2m Revenue Selling Starter Sites to New Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 19:19 Brian Brewer Um, probably Bill Gates. 5 times in the scene
OnFleet Flirting With $10m ARR Processing 3m Deliveries Per Month for 900 Customers
- ▶ 19:02 Khaled Naim Uh, these days, Bill Gates, I don't know, I guess he's still a CEO, but, um, yeah, always been a fan of his and really interested in sort of how he used the world.
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products
- ▶ 21:39 Saravana Kumar The reason, you know, whenever you ask this question, people say Jeff Bejas and Bill Gates, okay, they're all fine, but you know, I follow somebody where, you know, I can reach that point, and I, you know, and also Girish got a similar…
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker
1672 How This Lawyer Pivoted from IP Protection to CAD Editing with NASA
- ▶ 15:30 Paul Powers I've read a lot from Bill Gates. 3 times in the scene
1518 Bynder Hits $48m ARR, Another Acquisition On The Way?
- ▶ 14:25 Chris Hall Um, yeah, I'm looking at Bill Gates and just the, the, the, you know, the usual suspects, I guess.
1461 Does Your CS Team Carry a Quota? $8M in ARR on $2.5M Raised Roadmunk CEO Explains
- ▶ 20:56 Nathan Latka You know, give, give you against Bill Gates where Bill Gates gets no sleep for four to eight hours and you get like 16 hours. 2 times in the scene
1436 How He Used Partnerships To Grow 10x YoY to $6m in ARR
- ▶ 17:06 Zee Aganovic Like, uh, uh, in, in the old days, uh, I, I definitely was inspired by Gates, uh, by Steve Jobs.
1380 SaaS Company in Floripa Launches, Passes $5k/mo Helping Websites Scale with CDN Solutions
- ▶ 12:53 Thiago Verne Well, I like a lot of Bill Gates.
1366 ACT! and SalesLogix Founders New Company Hits $1m in ARR
- ▶ 0:11 Nathan Latka Along the way, he was named one of the most, uh, 80 most influential people in sales and marketing history alongside Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Jack Welch, and Bill Gates by Sales and Marketing Management.
1265 How $100m ARR HotSchedules Passed 160,000 Restaruant Customers, 110% Net Annual Dollar Retention
- ▶ 17:55 Mike Arendt Um, I've always been a big fan of Bill Gates and what he did with Microsoft and, uh, how he constantly was transforming that company to the very end before he left.
1196 How CloudCheckr Drives 145% Net Revenue Retention Annually
- ▶ 19:48 Aaron Newman Um, I, I'm also a big fan of Bill Gates, uh, just because of what he's done where, you know, the, the, the, the human side of what he's done in terms of donating his money and building the foundation, um,
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund
- ▶ 26:22 David Skok Um, great prior leader in, in Bill Gates and interim bad management.
1135 This app lets you use real money to compete with your friends in crypto, stocks
- ▶ 15:19 Nathan Latka Bill Gates recommends it.
1118 CEO: How I Bootstrapped to $3m in ARR
- ▶ 14:52 Darshan Kaler Well, uh, Bill Gates has always been another, uh, an individual I like to follow.
1046 She Controls WeWork TV Screens, Passes $4.8m ARR
1015 How He's Using $10m In AdSpend to Power New SaaS Offering
- ▶ 14:01 Nathan Latka The Balmer video I've stuck in my head is him releasing the phone, dancing around on stage like a maniac with Bill in the background going like, is this really who I just picked to run this company?
939 How he Bootstrapped To $15m in ARR Before $20m Round from IVP
- ▶ 16:40 Chris Hall Um, I personally admire Bill Gates actually, uh, just that the way he sort of transitioned, um,
923 He's Doing $10m-$30m in ARR Between Adtech and SaaS
- ▶ 19:13 Amit Avner Um, I'm a huge fan of Bill Gates.
891 SaaS: Lessonly Hits $6m+ ARR for Internal, Non-HR Solution for Team Learning
- ▶ 15:35 Nathan Latka Bill gets it.
862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
- ▶ 30:10 Ragy Thomas My favorite two is Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, because they are
841: Why He Can Charge $1000 CPMs, $31m Raised Helping Create Better Content
- ▶ 20:10 Shaul Olmert It's to say, I think that the only thing that, uh, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and all the other legendary CEOs have in common is that they, you know, may have taken inspiration from people, but they didn't follow anybody else's…
809: How This $12m Accounting Biz Moves from On-Prem to SaaS Model
- ▶ 17:45 Barry Clapp Excel was having its 40th birthday, so we created a funky video that had pictures of Bill Gates when he was, you know, 20 years old and old computers with, you know, big green screens and with people with bell bottoms and, you know, afros…
776: TextingBase Shares Margins, Cap Table, Valuation, More
- ▶ 15:32 Eric Beans You asked, I just read the, uh, Bill, uh, not the Bill Gates book, Steve Jobs book, a different guy, but he was in there.
763: He's Raised $18.5m To Help Banks Use Open API's, Makes Money From # of API Calls
- ▶ 2:10 Steve Kirsch So I'm kind of like the Bill Gates of, um, for, for banks. 2 times in the scene
761: With $63m Raised, 20% of Top 200 Companies Use This To Communicate With Employees
- ▶ 21:11 Jim Larrison I guess my favorite actual business book is the Business Adventures book, which actually is Bill Gates' favorite book, business book also, though I also suggest people read Into Thin Air, which is an amazing book.
747: This This Six Figure Poker Player Quit to Launch Agency
- ▶ 19:43 Nathan Latka Hal was at Microsoft and worked directly with the billionaire Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
746: Bill Gates Was Great to Work With, But This Founder Wanted His Own Thing
- ▶ 15:05 Hal Howard Obviously Bill Gates, uh, uh, before him and Steve Ballmer had a chance to work with both of them.
745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?
- ▶ 1:06 Nathan Latka Hal worked with Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
743: Will 28yo Privacy.com Founder Replace Credit Cards?
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year
- ▶ 21:37 Stu Sjouwerman Um, I wish that my 21 old self knew that Bill Gates was going to go into Windows Server in about 1995.
697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
- ▶ 12:03 Scott Wingo It's always been my aspiration, and I remember, um, when I was a kid, my dad was a business person, and he got Fortune Magazine, and I remember the Microsoft IPO, and it said, the cover had a picture of Bill Gates, and it said, you know,…
681: Tai Lopez, Gary V Paid Him To Grow Instagram with Classy Savant CEO Eduardo Gonzalez
- ▶ 19:03 Eduardo Gonzalez Obviously, I love to see what Bill Gates does, and I kind of have to follow Mark Zuckerberg because he's, you know, on Facebook, Instagram, so he just is the man, so those are my top three.
676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
- ▶ 10:33 Nathan Latka Assuming Bill Gates and his compounding interest doesn't beat you there.
EP 408: $100M Funds, $30k/mo Real Estate Cashflow, Conference Sales with Cole Hatter of Thrive
- ▶ 10:48 Cole Hatter And, uh, I believe that business can be the greatest tool or, or vehicle to leverage to, to make a really positive change in the world, whether it's in your business model, like Tom's shoes, who gives shoes away, or whether it's just…
EP 366: Her Cheese Shop Does $1m+ Annually, EBITDA Low, Why?
- ▶ 27:51 Nathan Latka I see all these entrepreneurs bragging on, you know, oh, I only get three hours of sleep, and I say, you know what, I don't, you put me in front of Bill Gates on three hours of sleep, and I get eight, I'm gonna kick his butt every day.
EP 362: 10,000 Nurses Pay Him $110k/mo To Get Certified with Tony Leonard of NurseVersity.com
- ▶ 14:06 Tony Leonard Um, Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene
EP 326: Quit Job During Greece Financial Crisis to Launch Media Business
- ▶ 14:42 Nathan Latka She sold her business to Bill Gates.
EP 325: She Sold Her Busines to Bill Gates
- ▶ 1:24 Nathan Latka 18 months later, she showed her image licensing business to Bill Gates in a multi-million dollar deal.
- ▶ 2:27 Nathan Latka The deal with Bill Gates. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:37 Nathan Latka I mean, when you were, when you sold it to Bill Gates, how much revenue had you done that previous year in the business? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:48 Beate Chelette Somebody who was in a creative business who sold a company to somebody like Bill Gates.
- ▶ 18:59 Nathan Latka Many years ago, she sold her business to Microsoft's founder, many of you know him, Bill
EP 324: CEO of Datanyze Shares $6m Revenue Number
- ▶ 1:21 Nathan Latka She sold her business to Bill Gates.
Does This Ford Dealership Sell The Most Cars Ever? with Cameron Johnson Ep 9
- ▶ 11:07 Cameron Johnson So, um, that's where I grew up reading Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, and, uh, I, Richard Branson, and I enjoy reading books about successful entrepreneurs.
How GoPro Went from $300k to $600M In Sales in Weird Way with Ron Lynch Ep 8
How To Acquire $1m+ Company For $2 Dollars with Eric Siu CEO of Single Grain
Case For Quitting Your $100k Corporate Job with Stig Brodersen of We Study Billionaires
- ▶ 11:24 Stig Brodersen I started from the top, and, uh, number one, that was Bill Gates. 2 times in the scene