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Bill Gates

02/03/25

@ Jay Shetty Podcast

The idea that everyone would use a computer was ridiculed, but I believed it would become mainstream.

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BILL GATES REVEALS: "I Was Wrong About Success…"

@ Jay Shetty Podcast

BILL GATES REVEALS: "I Was Wrong About Success…"

02/03/25

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Bill Gates

02/03/25

@ Jay Shetty Podcast

When we said we wanted a computer on every desk and in every home, people thought we were out of touch, but technology was advancing rapidly.

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Konstantin Richter

05/03/25

@ EO

I believed in a world where there would be 100,000 nodes run by institutions by 2020, even when people laughed at me.

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Bill Gates

02/21/25

@ Stripe

The early computing movement was driven by a small group of people who envisioned personal computing as a transformative technology.

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Jensen Huang

06/24/11

@ Stanford Online

In 1993, we believed that the PC would evolve to run 3D graphics programs, allowing users to explore new worlds and play games.

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Diane Greene

08/05/17

@ Y Combinator

In the late 90s, during the dot-com era, we faced skepticism about our software that allowed users to run multiple operating systems on one machine.

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Tim Brady

08/30/19

@ Y Combinator

Microsoft's original vision of having a computer on every desk in every home attracted the right type of people and helped build the culture necessary for its success.

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Larry Ellison

02/27/19

@ Ray Captain

I initially called the concept of networked computers the 'network computer,' which has evolved into what we now refer to as cloud computing.

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Sam Altman

06/18/25

@ Uncapped with Jack Altman

I believe my child will grow up in a world where computers are smarter than he is, and he will learn to use them fluently.

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Leonard Susskind

12/07/18

@ Y Combinator

My physics has been extremely mainstream, and while some ideas may have seemed outlandish at first, they quickly caught on.