Ray Ozzie - The Future of Intelligent Machines - [Invest Like the Best, EP.391]
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What inspired Ray Ozzie's early work on collaboration tools like Lotus Notes?
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My guest today is Ray Ozzie, one of the great technologists, software developers and entrepreneurs of our time. Ray is perhaps best known as the creator of Lotus Notes, a collaboration tool that revolutionized business communication in the 1990s. He later succeeded Bill Gates as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, where he played a key part in the development of Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform. Ray's work has earned him numerous accolades, including induction in the Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows and the National Academy of Engineering. Throughout his career, Ray has been at the forefront of technology innovation and paradigm shifts, founding multiple companies, including Iris Associates, Groove Networks, and most recently, Blues Wireless, which focuses on connectivity in the physical world.
His insights on cloud computing, collaboration tools, and the future of technology have shaped the industry for decades. In our conversation, we explore Ray's journey through the evolving landscape of software development, his perspectives on the current state of technology, and his vision for the future of connectivity and collaboration. Please enjoy this fascinating discussion with Ray Ozzie. Okay, Ray, we were just about to go down a story rabbit hole and I stopped you, but I'm going to reignite the story. Bring us to the time you were in an air raid shelter texting with your wife.
Hello, Patrick. Yeah, this was just a few months ago. I was in Ukraine and actually probably on a relative basis, the safest place I could be in Ukraine, which is Kiev. And I was there with a few volunteers from Safecast, which is a nonprofit I'm involved in. And I was actually also there with my son who works for my company, Blues. And It was the middle of the night. We're sitting there. I'm alternating back and forth between Telegram and an air alert app and messages on my phone. And my wife is like, I don't understand why you had to be there. Why did you have to go? this isn't going to end well. And it was relatively peaceful, but there were air raid sirens on the outside. From what I could see, there was nothing happening in my immediate vicinity, but I was just
so immersed in what was going on. We read about what's happening in Ukraine from afar, but it's a bit different when you're there, when these things are happening around you, when the infrastructure is being attacked, when the power is going out and you're hearing stories from everyone that you meet about their families, about their extended families, about their friends. It's just intense.
You've been really involved there for a while in a story that goes back to something you started back in 2011. But before we go back to 2011 and get into the technology story, maybe you could just give us a taste of what I would call the wild evolutions of the use of technology in warfare in that you've seen in Ukraine, both from an offensive and defensive perspective, because again, you hear dispatches in the US at a distance and don't pay close attention.
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