David Rosenthal: uncertainty

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…Yeah, it’s amazing. I get it. I get it Tesla people. All right. We got a lot of thank yous here. I was trying to count, David. It’s definitely over 20 people that we talked with this time. On my end, thanks so much to Brad Silverberg. Brad led Windows for a while, notably the development of the Windows 95 product and that team. Thomas Reardon, who was one of the original team members on Internet Explorer and actually went on years later to start CTRL-Labs, which sold to Meta and is a part of Meta’s effort now to do the neural interface. You can twitch your hands and I don’t know, we haven’t actually seen a product yet, so we’ll have to see what that looks like. But that was Thomas Rearden in his next act. Steven Sinofsky who led Windows in Windows 7 and 8 and led office before that. David, you read quite a bit of Steven’s words to prepare for this. His blog, hardcore software he published in book form. It’s a thousand-page book. It’s a textbook sitting on my desk. It’s awesome. We talked to Steven for a few hours, he’s great. He’s a board partner in Andreessen Horowitz now. that was super fun. Julia Larson-Green was also great. She worked closely with Steven in Office and also on Windows. My old coworker, Anna and Raja [...] who worked with me on Office for iPad, helped refresh my memory on what the blow-by-blow was like in those days, where we almost shipped the product then didn’t, then got a new CEO then did. A huge thank you to Fritz Landman, who worked in some strategy and corp dev roles at Microsoft. Just an awesome guy. Actually, now he is the CEO of the combined company, ClassPass and Mindbody, and talk about a person with multiple lives and careers. He was great. Someone that he worked closely with at Microsoft, Charlie Songhurst, Charlie’s one of the smartest people I’ve ever met. That could go for a lot of people on this list.…

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