Episode #34: From Magellan to the Machine: Bill Gross on the Search for Meaning
Welcome to Stewart Squared podcast with the two Stewart Alsops. In this wide-ranging conversation, they’re joined by legendary entrepreneur and Idealab founder Bill Gross to trace the arcs of personal computing, the early Internet, and today's AI boom. The episode explores Bill’s early work with products like Lotus Magellan and GoTo.com, reflects on how foundational technologies transformed from niche curiosities into global forces, and questions what comes next in an era of large language models and cognitive prosthetics. Along the way, they revisit pivotal moments from the GUI wars to the…
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