Bill Gates

Bye, they're effectively competitors and political enemies. But the embrace and extend thing is actually a brilliant business strategy. There's already a whole bunch of people who love this thing. We want to embrace that new behavior. There's sort of no product market fit risk because we can clearly already see it happening.

Bye, they're effectively competitors and political enemies. But the embrace and extend thing is actually a brilliant business strategy. There's already a whole bunch of people who love this thing. We want to embrace that new behavior. There's sort of no product market fit risk because we can clearly already see it happening.

People want to use this browser thing to access hypertext on the internet. We're going to embrace that and we're going to figure out a way to work it into our business model to extend the functionality in a way that we can make money on.

People want to use this browser thing to access hypertext on the internet. We're going to embrace that and we're going to figure out a way to work it into our business model to extend the functionality in a way that we can make money on.

This is a few months before Netscape is even founded.

This is a few months before Netscape is even founded.

It's a very Cornell story.

It's a very Cornell story.

But it was this way for scientists to basically trade research and you're starting to get some cool entertainment use cases. But there's certainly no business or business interest or commercial. It's all just like the way that academics communicate with each other.

But it was this way for scientists to basically trade research and you're starting to get some cool entertainment use cases. But there's certainly no business or business interest or commercial. It's all just like the way that academics communicate with each other.

It's so funny. Microsoft history is told through a series of memos. Every milestone is some executive publishing a company-wide memo.

It's so funny. Microsoft history is told through a series of memos. Every milestone is some executive publishing a company-wide memo.

Oh, wow. I had no idea that was kind of the impetus of him taking it seriously. I mean, think back to everything we talked about in the last episode. The whole concept of Microsoft is founded on the idea that Moore's Law is a thing, and therefore we can develop software that people have never dreamed of that in just a few years will be usable.

Oh, wow. I had no idea that was kind of the impetus of him taking it seriously. I mean, think back to everything we talked about in the last episode. The whole concept of Microsoft is founded on the idea that Moore's Law is a thing, and therefore we can develop software that people have never dreamed of that in just a few years will be usable.

And so you get the opportunity to team up with an industry legend, of course.

And so you get the opportunity to team up with an industry legend, of course.

Yes. In retrospect, you've got to be looking at them thinking, how dense are you? Marc Andreessen is the person in the world who understands what a crazy exponential phenomena the internet is, the web is, what it can be. I mean, Marc had, I think by this point, already put the image tag into HTML so they can now send images that render in browsers.

Yes. In retrospect, you've got to be looking at them thinking, how dense are you? Marc Andreessen is the person in the world who understands what a crazy exponential phenomena the internet is, the web is, what it can be. I mean, Marc had, I think by this point, already put the image tag into HTML so they can now send images that render in browsers.

And when Jim Clark emails him, they decide to go do the information superhighway and not to do the internet.

And when Jim Clark emails him, they decide to go do the information superhighway and not to do the internet.