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Bill Gates said in his 1994 interview in Playboy magazine: “John Malone is straightforward in terms of talking about technology and strategy. He and I are damn similar. He worked at Bell Labs and understands both business and technology.” orchology.com/post/593486607…
"I’m sitting with Buffett. Bill Gates has just presented pre-IPO. Warren asks, 'John, you know something about these technology companies, would you invest in that?’
I said, I don’t think so. It would be too easy for other people to compete with it." vectornews.eu/news/business/…
Buffett did not meet Gates until July 5, 1991. Buffett was attending a dinner with Gates' parents "I at this time didn't believe in vacations, was totally focused on my job. So when my mom said to me, 'You've got to come out and meet Warren...,' I said, 'Mom, I'm busy!'"
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1/ Rich Barton

Ideas are cheap. Execution is dear.

If you want to have a growing and vibrant organization you want to have big new opportunities in front of you.

You can have a great team of people, but if they’re fishing in the wrong spot they’re not going to catch any fish.
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A big dream and a clear vision, and a little bit of nuttiness are required to take something from an idea stage all the way to creating something valuable.

There is almost as much blood sweat and tears in building something small as there is in building something big.
3/ When I came out of heart surgery a few years ago the "get well" balloons in my room were from Rich Barton. Dude gets stuff done. I had low expectations that day since I figured most other people I knew were hoping I was dead.
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Cisco forecasts (i.e., guesses) mobile traffic will be at ~annual run rate of a zettabyte [one trillion gigabytes] by 2022 or 20 percent of global IP traffic 113 times more than all global mobile traffic generated in 2012. newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-… That's real productivity.
The price of sending a mobile gigabyte might fall to 50 cents or even one cent in five years. Since prices will drop there will be little measured impact on GDP despite innovation. Profit margins remain low and service providers will look up the stack at applications and SaaS.
Lots of innovation increases efficiency and output without increasing profits. This baffles many people including economists and journalists. They ask: "Doesn't innovation always result in more profit/revenue?" Heck no. Sometimes nothing sticks to your ribs as a business owner.
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1/ IBM’s OS/2 vs Microsoft's Windows was an important period in the history of PCs and computing. People who were not around then too often have a false view of what happened (e.g. MSFT head fake) and even people who were there can have different recollections (Rashomon effects).
2/ Understanding OS/2 requires understanding the original MSFT-IBM contracts for DOS (there were several over the years). In the summer of 1980 IBM approached Microsoft about creating an operating system for a PC. Microsoft had 80 employees and would have sales of $8M that year.
3/ Bill Gates: "IBM wanted to bring its PC to market in less than a year. In order to meet this schedule it had to abandon doing all the hardware and software itself. This created essentially open architecture, easy to copy." IBM paid MSFT a one-time fee of $80,000 for MS-DOS.
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