Steve Ballmer

Crazy. All right, David, I have some trivia for you.

Do you know where Dave Marquardt from TVI first encountered Bill Gates?

Do you know where Dave Marquardt from TVI first encountered Bill Gates?

So Dave had watched Bill present many years earlier at none other than the Homebrew Computer Club at Stanford. Yes! The very place that is part of the Apple lore with Jobs and Woz showing off the early Apple computer. Apparently, Bill also went and made a presentation there and would hang out there, and that is where Dave first came across him.

So Dave had watched Bill present many years earlier at none other than the Homebrew Computer Club at Stanford. Yes! The very place that is part of the Apple lore with Jobs and Woz showing off the early Apple computer. Apparently, Bill also went and made a presentation there and would hang out there, and that is where Dave first came across him.

Amazing.

Amazing.

That's cool. It's really hard because all hardware fails eventually. So, you know, at some point there will be zero computers out there that can run Windows 3.1 that will boot. And the only way to experience any of these things is through an emulator. And so it's kind of like... I don't know, to be able to capture, you know, high res footage and stuff of those machines while they still work.

That's cool. It's really hard because all hardware fails eventually. So, you know, at some point there will be zero computers out there that can run Windows 3.1 that will boot. And the only way to experience any of these things is through an emulator. And so it's kind of like... I don't know, to be able to capture, you know, high res footage and stuff of those machines while they still work.

It's cool.

It's cool.

Yep. I love that. Have you ever heard the phrase, go out when the top row at the back of the auditorium is empty?

Yep. I love that. Have you ever heard the phrase, go out when the top row at the back of the auditorium is empty?

I think it's a Seinfeld quote. I might misattribute it. Drop a note in the Slack if I did. But yeah, I think it's a Seinfeld quote. You can let one row be empty, but you don't want to wait too long.

I think it's a Seinfeld quote. I might misattribute it. Drop a note in the Slack if I did. But yeah, I think it's a Seinfeld quote. You can let one row be empty, but you don't want to wait too long.

All right, I have three, and they're all sort of different. We've sort of had a tradition on the recent episodes of doing multiple carve-outs, and all of them sort of are different genres. So my product that I've really been loving, my physical product, is the Meta Ray-Bans.

All right, I have three, and they're all sort of different. We've sort of had a tradition on the recent episodes of doing multiple carve-outs, and all of them sort of are different genres. So my product that I've really been loving, my physical product, is the Meta Ray-Bans.

I bet. It's a pretty delightful product. I bought them because I was in Hawaii and with my four-month-old son, we were in the pool and stuff. My iPhone's waterproof, but I kind of want a different angle, and I don't necessarily want to be holding my phone. It's very cool to be able to take pictures and record video of what I actually see to be able to relive that moment.

I bet. It's a pretty delightful product. I bought them because I was in Hawaii and with my four-month-old son, we were in the pool and stuff. My iPhone's waterproof, but I kind of want a different angle, and I don't necessarily want to be holding my phone. It's very cool to be able to take pictures and record video of what I actually see to be able to relive that moment.

And I did a bunch of photos and video, and we were on vacation that way. And then I discovered a thing that they're actually just awesome for, I think even better than AirPods, is phone calls. The speakers are great. I wouldn't say necessarily they're the best for listening to music. The bass is obviously not as good as headphone bass. They project the sound down toward your ears.