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Pablo Torre Explains the Steve Ballmer & Kawhi Leonard Scandal
WithSteve Ballmer
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This is our full interview with Pablo Torre. We discuss how he uncovered the alleged scheme to funnel $48 million to Kawhi Leonard, why Steve Ballmer risked circumventing the NBA salary cap, how money was routed through companies tied to the Clippers, why the NBA handed Ballmer a historic… More on the show's page
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The Steve Ballmer Interview
WithSteve Ballmer
MentionsBill Gates
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We sit down with Steve Ballmer, the legendary former Microsoft CEO and owner of the LA Clippers, for an epic conversation covering his 34 years at Microsoft. Steve listened to our Microsoft episodes and had some thoughts to share, and boy, did he deliver. Steve takes us point-by-point through the… More on the show's page
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20VC: Leadership Lessons from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, The Early Days of TheFacebook Advising Mark Zuckerberg and Why Now is Not the Right Time For Startups to Stockpile Cash with Hadi Partovi, CEO @ Code.org
WithSteve Ballmer
MentionsBill GatesHadi PartoviMark ZuckerbergEmil Michael
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Hadi Partovi is a tech entrepreneur and investor, and CEO of the education nonprofit Code.org. Before founding Code.org, Hadi founded two prior startups: Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft, discussed on 20VC with Emil Michael), and iLike (acquired by Newscorp). Hadi has also been an active… More on the show's page
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Model Mayhem, NVIDIA x Hugging Face Deal, GPT-6 Astra | Pablo Torre, Mohit Aron, Akshay Narisetti, Hari Ravichandran, Matt Caldwell & Jordy Leiser, Jeff Thornburg, Charlie O’Neill, Sridhar Ramaswamy
WithHari RavichandranJordy LeiserMatt CaldwellMohit AronSridhar Ramaswamy
MentionsSteve Ballmer
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(00:19) - Model Mayhem (13:12) - Why NVIDIA Bought Hugging Face (23:55) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (31:25) - Pablo Torre discusses his investigation into an alleged salary-cap circumvention scheme involving Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and Kawhi Leonard. The investigative journalist and host… More on the show's page
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From India to Silicon Valley: The Jay Chaudhry & Zscaler Story
WithJay Chaudhry
MentionsBill GatesElon MuskSatya NadellaSteve Ballmer
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Before Zscaler was a $32B cloud security giant, it was just 10 engineers, half in Bangalore, half in a borrowed U.S. office. As founder and CEO of Zscaler, Jay Chaudhry bet $50M of his own money on one radical idea: secure the internet in the cloud. Born in a Himalayan village with no electricity,… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's page#201 CEO Lyft, David Risher: The Ride
MentionsBill GatesElon MuskJeff BezosBucky MooreJohn ZimmerLogan Green
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Guest : David Risher, CEO of Lyft David Risher can measure his career in phone calls, from the one that introduced him to Jeff Bezos in 1995, to the call from the Lyft board in 2023, asking him to vie for the CEO job. But initially, he believed his life’s legacy might be the nonprofit Worldreader,… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageMicrosoft Volume I
MentionsJay LenoSteve Ballmer
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Microsoft. After nearly a decade of Acquired episodes, we are finally ready to tackle the most valuable company ever created. The company that put a computer on every desk and in every home. The company that invented the software business model. The company that so thoroughly and completely… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's page#148 Former Snowflake CEO, Bob Muglia: The Datapreneurs
WithBob Muglia
MentionsBill GatesSatya NadellaSteve Ballmer
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Guest: Bob Muglia, “The Datapreneurs” Co-Author and Former Snowflake CEO Longtime Microsoft executive and former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia was done with his book about using data to drive the digital economy, and then ChatGPT came out. “The timeline for artificial intelligence moved in by 50 years… More on the show's page
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