Bill Gates

So in the early days, there are a number of software companies. We're the first, but in the next three or four years, the numbers come along. Many of them were single product companies. That is VisiCalc, WordPerfect, a word processor, but they are only a single product.

The Microsoft conception was to be a software factory, to hire smarter people than other people did, to have better software tools, compilers, debuggers, and to do all popular software categories, and to do it globally. I had an office in Japan when nobody did, hired people in Europe.

The Microsoft conception was to be a software factory, to hire smarter people than other people did, to have better software tools, compilers, debuggers, and to do all popular software categories, and to do it globally. I had an office in Japan when nobody did, hired people in Europe.

The Microsoft conception was to be a software factory, to hire smarter people than other people did, to have better software tools, compilers, debuggers, and to do all popular software categories, and to do it globally. I had an office in Japan when nobody did, hired people in Europe.

Yes, the vision was about software, not about a WordPress or a spreadsheet. Until Google comes along, which is a decade later, we don't have any competitors that are hiring the way we are. You know, find very smart scientists and teach them how to program. We don't have anyone who's going all over the world and figuring out how do you do Kanji, how do you do Hangul. You know, there's just nobody.

Yes, the vision was about software, not about a WordPress or a spreadsheet. Until Google comes along, which is a decade later, we don't have any competitors that are hiring the way we are. You know, find very smart scientists and teach them how to program. We don't have anyone who's going all over the world and figuring out how do you do Kanji, how do you do Hangul. You know, there's just nobody.

Yes, the vision was about software, not about a WordPress or a spreadsheet. Until Google comes along, which is a decade later, we don't have any competitors that are hiring the way we are. You know, find very smart scientists and teach them how to program. We don't have anyone who's going all over the world and figuring out how do you do Kanji, how do you do Hangul. You know, there's just nobody.

And it was interesting, the Journal did an article about software companies where, one time they say, ah, they're all kind of interesting. One is Microsoft and there's these others. Then two years later, they actually wrote a piece that said, wait a minute, one of these companies is a software factory. And by that time with Windows 95, we were...

And it was interesting, the Journal did an article about software companies where, one time they say, ah, they're all kind of interesting. One is Microsoft and there's these others. Then two years later, they actually wrote a piece that said, wait a minute, one of these companies is a software factory. And by that time with Windows 95, we were...

And it was interesting, the Journal did an article about software companies where, one time they say, ah, they're all kind of interesting. One is Microsoft and there's these others. Then two years later, they actually wrote a piece that said, wait a minute, one of these companies is a software factory. And by that time with Windows 95, we were...

Taking the word processing category, the spreadsheet category, the presentation category, the database category, and just totally gaining share in everything because of this factory excellence that nobody else had.

Taking the word processing category, the spreadsheet category, the presentation category, the database category, and just totally gaining share in everything because of this factory excellence that nobody else had.

Taking the word processing category, the spreadsheet category, the presentation category, the database category, and just totally gaining share in everything because of this factory excellence that nobody else had.

I have to admit, I thought of digital empowerment as an unadulterated good until social networking came along. I mean, I'll admit criminals could use PCs, but the idea that some digital products could play on human weaknesses, it wasn't until social networking that I saw that. Nobody ever said, hey, because Microsoft did a word processor, somebody wrote a kidnapping note.

I have to admit, I thought of digital empowerment as an unadulterated good until social networking came along. I mean, I'll admit criminals could use PCs, but the idea that some digital products could play on human weaknesses, it wasn't until social networking that I saw that. Nobody ever said, hey, because Microsoft did a word processor, somebody wrote a kidnapping note.

I have to admit, I thought of digital empowerment as an unadulterated good until social networking came along. I mean, I'll admit criminals could use PCs, but the idea that some digital products could play on human weaknesses, it wasn't until social networking that I saw that. Nobody ever said, hey, because Microsoft did a word processor, somebody wrote a kidnapping note.

They just didn't see it that way. In fact, the virtuous thing was to make sure that the so-called digital divide where most people weren't getting access, that was our thing we needed to do was to make sure everybody You know, kids in the inner city, poor countries, you know, and keep driving the prices down, make it easier to use.

They just didn't see it that way. In fact, the virtuous thing was to make sure that the so-called digital divide where most people weren't getting access, that was our thing we needed to do was to make sure everybody You know, kids in the inner city, poor countries, you know, and keep driving the prices down, make it easier to use.

They just didn't see it that way. In fact, the virtuous thing was to make sure that the so-called digital divide where most people weren't getting access, that was our thing we needed to do was to make sure everybody You know, kids in the inner city, poor countries, you know, and keep driving the prices down, make it easier to use.

And so I do look back on the naivete that first social networking and now AI. And, you know, there's a lot of people who are very articulate about this. I just finished Harari's Nexus. You know, I love the thing where when they did the printing press, it was books about witches and how you find witches that were on the bestseller list, not Copernicus's laws of science.