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Yep. Julie Larson-Green was also great. She worked closely with Stephen in Office and also on Windows. My old coworker, Anand Rajaswaran, who worked with me on Office for iPad, helped refresh my memory on what the blow-by-blow was like in those days where we almost shipped the product, then didn't, then got a new CEO, then did.
Yep. Julie Larson-Green was also great. She worked closely with Stephen in Office and also on Windows. My old coworker, Anand Rajaswaran, who worked with me on Office for iPad, helped refresh my memory on what the blow-by-blow was like in those days where we almost shipped the product, then didn't, then got a new CEO, then did.
Huge thank you to Fritz Landman, who worked in some strategy and corp dev roles at Microsoft. Just an awesome guy. Actually, now he is the CEO of the combined company ClassPass and MindBody. And talk about a person with multiple lives and careers. He was great. Someone that he worked closely with at Microsoft, Charlie Songhurst. Charlie's one of the smartest people I've ever met.
Huge thank you to Fritz Landman, who worked in some strategy and corp dev roles at Microsoft. Just an awesome guy. Actually, now he is the CEO of the combined company ClassPass and MindBody. And talk about a person with multiple lives and careers. He was great. Someone that he worked closely with at Microsoft, Charlie Songhurst. Charlie's one of the smartest people I've ever met.
I mean, that could go for a lot of people on this list,
I mean, that could go for a lot of people on this list,
Absolutely brilliant, mind-expanding person. John Rubenstein, who led engineering at Apple and actually went on to lead Palm. It was fun talking with him about what was it like from the Apple side, from the competitive perspective, competing against Microsoft all these years. Huge thank you to Ray Ozzie, who David and I both spoke with.
Absolutely brilliant, mind-expanding person. John Rubenstein, who led engineering at Apple and actually went on to lead Palm. It was fun talking with him about what was it like from the Apple side, from the competitive perspective, competing against Microsoft all these years. Huge thank you to Ray Ozzie, who David and I both spoke with.
Yeah. More on my side to Rob Glazer, who worked at Microsoft in the 90s and founded and ran Real Networks. To Joe Belfiore, who played a large role in Windows and Windows Phone. And actually, he demoed Windows XP in the way back when, 2001, in the launch announcement to Regis Fieldman. That's like how the second half of the keynote works, is Joe is demoing features to Regis.
Yeah. More on my side to Rob Glazer, who worked at Microsoft in the 90s and founded and ran Real Networks. To Joe Belfiore, who played a large role in Windows and Windows Phone. And actually, he demoed Windows XP in the way back when, 2001, in the launch announcement to Regis Fieldman. That's like how the second half of the keynote works, is Joe is demoing features to Regis.
Yes. So Joe's got this beautiful, long history at Microsoft and was just really great. To Vivek Varma, who was at Microsoft, deeply involved in sort of the comms and legal stuff during the antitrust era. Of course, to Steve Ballmer, being very generous with his time and helpful in helping us sharpen some of our thinking today.
Yes. So Joe's got this beautiful, long history at Microsoft and was just really great. To Vivek Varma, who was at Microsoft, deeply involved in sort of the comms and legal stuff during the antitrust era. Of course, to Steve Ballmer, being very generous with his time and helpful in helping us sharpen some of our thinking today.
That's right. Our good friend who runs the Science of Hitting, it's a great substack that does investment analysis and just was very generous sharing a large spreadsheet of historical data from Microsoft. It's very easy to parse and look things up live while we're doing the episode. And finally, last one from me to Todd Bishop at GeekWire.
That's right. Our good friend who runs the Science of Hitting, it's a great substack that does investment analysis and just was very generous sharing a large spreadsheet of historical data from Microsoft. It's very easy to parse and look things up live while we're doing the episode. And finally, last one from me to Todd Bishop at GeekWire.
Todd has these unreleased recordings from when he was covering Microsoft at the Seattle PI way back in the early 2000s. And he sent me the raw recordings, you know, when he was standing there with Bill and Steve just being a reporter. And it's very fun to hear their voices in ways that I don't think were ever released or publicly heard.
Todd has these unreleased recordings from when he was covering Microsoft at the Seattle PI way back in the early 2000s. And he sent me the raw recordings, you know, when he was standing there with Bill and Steve just being a reporter. And it's very fun to hear their voices in ways that I don't think were ever released or publicly heard.