If Xerox PARC executives had realized that their engineers innovated the most important product of silicon valley that would change how people use computers, Probably there would not have been Apple and Microsoft. This is the story of how Steve Jobs stole the GUI idea from Xerox parc and Apple's macintosh on the technology. And since Karma is a bitch, while developing application software for Mac, Bill Gates stole the technology from Macintosh and Microsoft build their own competitive operating system called Windows.

In January 2022, Apple's market cap hit 3 trillion dollars. Apple is a company whose customers not just trust its products but have a deep emotional connection with the products. No other consumer company has managed to bod with its consumer this way. This is the story of how this company was started by two whimsical teens. one of them wanted to change the world, while the other one just wanted to have fun. This is the story of how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built Apple-I and co-founded the world's most valuable company.

In January 2021, something crazy happened that turned into the worst nightmares of hedge fund managers. This event would show the power of social media and what a bunch of amateurs can do when united against the most powerful people on Wall street. this is the classic story of David vs Goliath. This is the timeline of the Gamestop saga that broke Wall street and changed it forever.

While the fight between Apple and Meta may seem recent, their war started a decade back. It was not a corporate war but the war of ideology: free internet vs User's right to privacy. 

since then both companies have kept fighting. The fight took an ugly turn after Apple released iOS 14 and 14.5, putting the final nail in the coffin for Facebook or Meta via its App Tracking Transparency Policy. this put a massive dent in Facebook's revenue- 10 billion dollars a year and Facebook stock prices dropped 23%. since then Meta has reported a decline in the users on the Facebook platform. the war between Meta and Apple for control over users' data has turned it into the ugliest ideological war in silicon valley.  This is the story of that war.

the of Uber has been a watershed event in the history of Bay area. When we talk the rise of Uber, its corporate culture becomes the centre of the story. A company's culture is mostly synonym with the personality of the CEO. this is the story of Uber. This this is the sotry of of its ex-CEO, Travis Kalanick. 

This is a brief podcast on why it is YouTube, not Disney or Amazon Prime video that Netflix should be worried about. As YouTube continues to grow rapidly in developing countries and keep stealing eyeballs from Netflix, we can soon witness YouTube surpassing Netflix in terms of revenue and growth by huge margins.

During the 1970s, Gary Kildall created the CP/M operating system among other operating systems and programming tools, and subsequently founded Digital Research, Inc. (or "DRI") to market and sell his software products. Kildall was among the earliest individuals to recognize microprocessors as fully capable computers (rather than simply as equipment controllers) and to organize a company around this concept. At the same time, IBM was developing its personal computer project and was looking for someone who could develop an operating system for the PC. Gary Kildell had exactly what IBM wanted, but then due to some misunderstandings, the project went to Microsoft. Microsoft licensed the PC OS called DOS from another company Seatlle computers and charged IBM a bomb for it. This is the story of how Gary Kildell who could have been the man who build DOS and his company Digital Research could have been what Microsoft is.

Microsoft peaked at $60/share in 2000, just as Mr. Ballmer took the reins.  By 2002 it had fallen into the $20s, and has only rarely made it back to its current low $30s value.   On August 23, 2013, Microsoft announced that Ballmer would retire within the next 12 months. Microsoft was valued at 265 billion dollars then.   On February 4, 2014, Satya Nadella succeeded Ballmer as CEO. Nadella would turn Microsoft into a 2.5 trillion dollar company within seven years of his tenure. 10 times bigger than when he took the job.  So how did he do it.  Steve jobs used focus and simplicity to change apple around. Nadella would use empathy to reinvent Microsoft.   unlike any other leader, he applied the ethos of empathy to Microsoft and turned it into the 2nd most valued company.  he showed how you can generate wealth by applying empathy to your works place, and keep wall street happy.   This is a podcast about why Empathy matters to Nadella, and how he used it to lead Microsoft.