140 Bill Gates (the Making of the Microsoft Empire) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2020-08-16
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“They were trying to build a bu- a bunch of other products, and Listerine happened to be his, uh- Like his, his…”
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Focus
“So he focused on personal performance over management.”
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People
“He talks about his desire, "I wanna be hardcore." He wants to hire employees and wants to work with people that wanna…”
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Persistence
“Hard Drive chronicles Gates' rise in the industry from computer whiz kid to software giant, his early years as a high school…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“He was extremely, very cautious with money, Microsoft's money, his own money.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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