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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| A Microsoft CVP Looks Back: Career, Bill Gates, and Debbie Gibson | 30 Sep 2026 | 00:31:54 | |
Ashok Kuppusamy was a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft with decades of experience, including being Bill Gates's technical assistant. In this interview he shares his insights from his 29 years, along with some unexpected thoughts about Debbie Gibson. 00:00 Intro 00:38 Early Days at Microsoft 02:28 Inside Bill Gates's Office 04:19 Leadership and Management Style 10:14 AI in the Workplace 14:56 Executive Isolation and Networks 16:32 Living and Parenting in Norway 22:24 Reflections on Career and Youth 25:39 Pop Fandom and Life Lessons | |||
| Former Meta CTO's Strategy on Scaling Green Tech (Mike Schroepfer) | 23 Sep 2026 | 00:55:40 | |
Making things cheap is the best way to get climate solutions to scale. Mike Schroepfer shares the reason for his optimism behind solving key climate challenges through enabling technology that scales in the physical economy. 00:00 Intro 00:23 Early Facebook, Sun Microsystems, and Firefox 05:20 Facebook's change to mobile and Sun's innovator's dilemma 07:42 Going from Firefox/Mozilla to Facebook 11:48 Founding Gigascale Capital 15:45 Reason for optimism about our future 20:38 Exciting projects at Gigascale 24:40 People need to see things to believe 27:25 Biggest levers to positively impact climate 30:50 Cow burps â 6% of carbon emissions 35:55 Political involvement vs. high-impact career choices 37:37 Offshore datacenters in the ocean 39:52 What is Gigascale's value-add? 43:25 Is it lonely at the top? 48:06 Advice for college students 51:06 How Schrep changed Philip's life Learn more about Gigascale Capital: https://gigascale.com/ | |||