TIP 112 : Billionaire Paul Allen - Idea Man (Business Podcast)
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network
Stig Brodersen
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We study billionaires and this is episode 112 of the Investors Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Broadcasting from Bel Air, Maryland. This is the Investors Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | They'll read the books and summarize the lessons. They'll test the waters and tell you what it's called. |
| 0:19.0 | They'll give you actionable investing strategies. |
| 0:23.0 | Your host Preston Pish and St. Broderson. |
| 0:30.0 | How's everybody doing out there? This is Preston Pish and I'm your host for the Investors Podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | And as usual, I'm accompanied by my co-host St. Broderson out in Seoul, South Korea. |
| 0:39.0 | Today we have a book for you and this one is called Idea Man. |
| 0:44.0 | A memoir by the co-founder of Microsoft and this was written by billionaire Paul Allen. |
| 0:50.0 | And for anybody who doesn't know who Paul Allen is, he is the guy who was the co-founder of Microsoft and head programmer along with Bill Gates to build the whole world. |
| 0:59.0 | Microsoft Enterprise. I think Paul really kind of goes completely unnoticed when talking about Microsoft. |
| 1:07.0 | Everyone just says Bill Gates, Bill Gates, Bill Gates. But you read this book and I think that you do a little bit of homework on how Microsoft got started. |
| 1:17.0 | And you'll see that Paul Allen had a enormous part of what Microsoft ultimately became. And you want to hear your thoughts on that. |
| 1:27.0 | I don't know if you feel this way, Preston, but I almost had this impression that Bill Gates, he founded a company and there was someone named Paul or something. He was like his helper. |
| 1:37.0 | Clearly, I'm laughing at some segments, but I haven't thought too much about it. Clearly, I would know Bill Gates. |
| 1:42.0 | And I was kind of sure that there was some other guy at some point in time, perhaps in the beginning. |
| 1:47.0 | But I didn't know there was actually a real partnership before I read this book. |
| 1:52.0 | So I'm just going to throw out my opinion. I love this book. I really enjoyed reading this because it's almost like you got the second story. |
| 2:01.0 | You know, when you hear a story from a friend and they're like, and it sounds like it's too good to be true. |
| 2:06.0 | And you just want to hear the other person's side of the story. And after you hear that, you're like, oh, it all makes sense now. |
| 2:11.0 | Like everything comes together and it all makes sense now. That's kind of how I felt about the whole Microsoft story after reading this book. |
| 2:19.0 | I made total sense because you were then seeing the other vantage point, which was awesome. |
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