What does an operating system for today's datacenter look like? Why do we even need one, and how does it function? Mesosphere's Benjamin Hindman, the co-creator of Apache Mesos, joins Steven Sinofsky for an all-OS discussion.
Stripe cofounder and CEO Patrick Collison sits down with @billgates to discuss his memoir, Source Code. Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he cofounded @Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen and today he is chair of the @GatesFoundation. Bill is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies. This conversation was recorded on February 11, 2025 and hosted by the @ComputerHistory Museum in Mountain View, California. Video courtesy of the Computer History Museum Photo courtesy of Gates Ventures
[Recorded February 11, 2025] Join us for an extraordinary CHM Live event as we welcome Bill Gates to discuss his deeply personal new memoir, Source Code, in conversation with Patrick Collison, cofounder and CEO of Stripe. What You’ll Experience -A fireside chat with Bill Gates discussing his new memoir, Source Code, moderated by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. -Lessons, insights, and stories from the formative early years of one of the world's most impactful leaders. About the Book The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education. Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. It’s the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world. Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life. FEATURED PARTICIPANTS Speaker Bill Gates Chair, Gates Foundation, and Founder, Breakthrough Energy and TerraPower Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation. Bill is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies. He has three children. Moderator Patrick Collison Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer, Stripe Patrick Collison is cofounder and chief executive officer of Stripe, a technology company that builds financial infrastructure for the internet. Patrick and his brother, John, started Stripe in 2010 with the goal of making it simpler to accept payments on the internet. Today, millions of businesses from startups to global enterprises use Stripe to accept payments and manage complex businesses online. Patrick is also a cofounder of the Arc Institute, a biomedical research institute that is pioneering a new model for basic research. Catalog Number: 102809062 Acquisition Number: 2025.0002
This episode is about Bill Gates' obsessive drive and hardcore work ethic. Bill Gates had the rarest entrepreneurial talent—the ability to see the leverage point in a new industry, seize it with relentless intensity, and will Microsoft into one of the most successful companies in human history. To make this episode I read Bill's new autobiography, Source Code: My Beginnings https://amzn.to/4nPM2iH and pulled ideas and notes from 4 more books about his singular career: Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire https://amzn.to/4nmkIZs Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace https://amzn.to/48voIlC Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft https://amzn.to/4njA40V In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World https://amzn.to/4pD65lT Episode sponsors: Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs and save time and money. https://ramp.com Automate compliance, security, and trust with Vanta. Vanta helps you win trust, close deals, and stay secure—faster and with less effort. Find out how increased security leads to more customers by going to Vanta. Tell them David from Founders sent you and you'll get $1000 off. https://www.vanta.com/founders Collateral transforms your complex ideas into compelling narratives. Collateral crafts institutional grade marketing collateral for private equity, private credit, real estate, venture capital, family offices, hedge funds, oil & gas companies, and all kinds of corporations. Storytelling is one of the highest forms of leverage and you should invest heavily in it. You can do that by going to https://collateral.com
The core secret to startup success isn't fundraising or growth hacking - it's solving your customer's biggest problems. But most founders are afraid to really understand those problems. What if that fear is holding your startup back? In this video, Group Partners Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel share how companies like Google, Twitch, and Microsoft succeeded by first giving more value than they captured - and how you can too. Learn why your MVP might suck on purpose, how to change your customer outreach, and why you should understand exactly how your customers make money. Because when you solve the right problems, fundraising and scaling become the easy parts. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply Work at a Startup: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Intro 00:19 - Business 101 00:46 - Success Stories 01:34 - Minimal Value 02:31 - Fear of Consulting 03:42 - Early vs Late 04:58 - Forget Your Fear 06:01 - Customer Outreach 07:32 - Historical Context 09:51 - Takeaway
Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs. He has been described as "The Renaissance Man of Venture Capital" for his ability to spot trends and see where the world is moving. In this conversation, we spoke about how to meet a partner, why you should connect with strangers, what it's really like to work with Bill Gates, what true wealth is for Josh, how to parent your children, and much more. 0:00 “I hope you make a billion” 3:45 Preparation 5:49 Connecting with strangers 10:43 Wife 15:35 Learning 18:14 Chips in shoulders put chips in pockets 20:43 100-0-100 23:30 Bill Gates 26:01 Does this person respect me? 28:30 Parenting 35:21 True wealth 36:57 Danny Kahneman 37:40 Hardest bias Recorded July 21, 2022 Josh on Twitter – https://twitter.com/wolfejosh Continue the conversation with me... 🎙 Podcast: https://podfollow.com/1532160275/view 🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/heydannymiranda 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/heydannymiranda 🕺 TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@heydannymiranda 🚨 Newsletter: https://dannymiranda.com/tuesday-treasure
What I learned from rereading "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire" (https://a.co/d/f8JCT17) by James Wallace and Jim Erickson. https://www.founderspodcast.com/ Full Transcript and Show Notes: https://www.founderspodcast.com/episodes/75127281/senra-bill-gates-microsofts-beginnings David Senra: https://x.com/FoundersPodcast?s=20