3.8 • 30 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tech fan podcast number 370. |
| 0:03.4 | I am Tim Robertson. |
| 0:04.6 | I am David Cohen. |
| 0:06.2 | So usually, you know, we talk about this, that, and the other. |
| 0:12.1 | But this is kind of a sad week for true tech fans, David. |
| 0:15.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.5 | Co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, passed away. |
| 0:20.7 | And, you know, we talk about Apple a lot here. |
| 0:25.8 | But let's not overlook the importance of Paul Allen. And as such, we're going to dedicate our |
| 0:32.6 | Wiki trolling segment to Paul and kind of recount his history a little bit. |
| 0:38.9 | You know, there's going to be a lot of people, well, maybe not a lot, but there's going to |
| 0:42.4 | be quite a few people listening to this episode, David, who may not even know who he is, |
| 0:47.5 | because he left Microsoft very early. |
| 0:49.3 | So we're going to talk about that. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah, and also he was well known as being quite shy and reclusive. |
| 0:55.4 | So he kind of ducked the limelight, whereas Bill Gates was always happy to be the public |
| 1:01.1 | face of Microsoft, Paul Allen, never was even before he left the company. |
| 1:05.5 | So, yeah, very much an underappreciated man, I think, in tech circles. |
| 1:10.9 | But actually, you look at his history and you realize probably most of what Microsoft did would not have happened without his contribution. |
| 1:18.9 | But we're going to start at a story that we had kind of left over from last week. |
| 1:25.0 | I don't know how we missed this one, David. |
| 1:26.6 | And it's an interesting story, too. |
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