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Cover of Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

James Wallace and Jim Erickson · 1992
Mentioned 14 times across 4 podcasts · 2019–2026
Mention timeline14 mentions
20192026
Where it's mentioned
2026
How Replit Agent made $1M on day one (then $250M in a year)
My First Million · May 2026
“After reading about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and these guys, I just knew that I wanted to be part of that part of Silicon Valley ... Old school, very unknown. a biography hard drive”
2025
#828: David Senra — How Extreme Winners Think and Win: Lessons from 400+ of History’s Greatest Founders and Investors (Including Buffett, Munger, Rockefeller, Jobs, Ovitz, Zell, and Names You Don’t Know But Should)
The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2025
“I reread hard drive”
2024
#366 Mr. Beast Leaked Memo
Founders · Sep 2024
“It's called Hard Drive. The book ends when he's like thirty five years old”
2023
David Senra: Podcasts With Billion-Dollar Potential, What Separates Good From Great, and More
My First Million · Apr 2023
“so there's a book called Hard Drive. Bill Gates and the making of the Microsoft Empire. That covers the first thirty five years of Bill Beat's life”
#284 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick
Founders · Jan 2023
“It's called Hard Drive. It's episode one forty”
2022
#263 Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It
Founders · Aug 2022
“biography of Bill Gates that I read, which is fantastic'cause it's uh it just covers the first thirty five years of his life”
#230 Lucille Ball (TV's biggest star)
Founders · Feb 2022
“in the first book I did on him hard drive. He's ignoring the internet”
2021
#201 Isambard Kingdom Brunel (James Dyson's Hero)
Founders · Aug 2021
“I got to that part. And when I read the w that book Hard Drive on a young Bill Gates This is exactly when he how he would work”
#185 César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier (The Hotelier and The Chef)
Founders · Jun 2021
“it's called Hard Drive. It covers the first thirty five years of his life”
#166 Robert Noyce (Intel)
Founders · Feb 2021
“when we read the book The Hard Drive. I think it was founder's number one forty”
2020
#157 The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Founders · Dec 2020
“A lot of them come from that book hard drive, which I did a few weeks ago”
#150 Sam Walton (America's Richest Man)
Founders · Oct 2020
“which is that book Hard Drive, which is the biography of uh young Bill Gates up until I think Microsoft IPOs”
#148 John D. Rockefeller (Autobiography)
Founders · Oct 2020
“the one that keeps coming to mind because it's recent when I read that book, Hard Drive on Bill Gates”
2019
Take on Goliath — and win, w/Dropbox's Drew Houston
Masters of Scale · Sep 2019
“The Hard Drive, which is a story in Microsoft”