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Acquired

Microsoft Volume I

21 Apr 2024

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Full Episode

0.57 - 3.293 Ben Gilbert

What were you listening to before we hopped on to your walkout music?

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3.613 - 11.102 Steve Ballmer

New Beyonce. Oh, New Beyonce. I haven't heard it yet. How is it? I really like it. Nice. I think it is reductionist to call it country.

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13.125 - 16.569 Ben Gilbert

I was appropriately enough listening to Start Me Up Through the Ages.

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16.749 - 28.633 Steve Ballmer

Of course you were. But I kind of feel like a David Rosenthal move is that you might have been listening to Start Me Up whether we were doing Microsoft or not. That's a very squarely in your genre song.

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28.953 - 37.875 Ben Gilbert

The Stones though, man, like it's crazy. They're in their 70s, 80s. Amazing. Man, I hope we're in our 70s and 80s dancing on stage.

38.215 - 38.775 Steve Ballmer

Season 126. Yeah.

38.795 - 44.036 Ben Gilbert

All right, let's do it. Let's do it.

44.496 - 59.543 Third Speaker

Who got the truth? is it you is it you is it you who got the truth now is it you is it you is it you sit me down say it straight another story on the way

61.283 - 85.535 Steve Ballmer

Welcome to Season 14, Episode 4 of Acquired, the podcast about great companies and the stories and playbooks behind them. I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenthal. And we are your hosts. We often remark that selling software is the best business model of all time. Well, today, finally, we tell the story of the company that created that business, Microsoft.

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