John Collison
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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And you know, I think the classic example for some reason that everyone uh
talks about, despite it being quite minor, is the fact that
Apple originally only uh let's use an iPod with a Mac and tried to use it to drive Mac sales and then gave up and you know shipped iTunes for Windows.
And my understanding, reading the Apple in China book, is it was like a totally random decision that someone just made at one you know one day.
But it's often held up as one of these examples.
Obviously, Microsoft, the entire history is full of these interesting examples.
I don't think people realize how open Microsoft was.
In the early days, where in 1985, most of Microsoft's revenue was from Macintosh applications.
And then for the Microsoft operating systems, most of the applications were third-party, you know, like Lotus 123 and things like this.
Like
And so it was like a fully open strategy.
And then you had the Windows era of the tight coupling between Office and Windows and those kind of mutually reinforcing.
Each other.
Then early on, I get the sense Azure and Cloud was, you know, oh, it's a place you can run your SQL Server and then fully embracing Linux later on and things like that.
I'm curious, just
To because again, we think about this as a platform company and we've been of late embracing much more modularity where Stripe radar.
You can use it even if you're not using Stripe for payments and things like that.
How do you in general
Think about your framework for when products should be coupled versus when you sell them independently.
And then I've AI-specific versions I can see.
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