Inflection Moments

About Inflection Moments

Inflection Moments studies the world’s most successful entrepreneurs through the lens of the pivotal turning points in their career. The podcast is brought to you by David Franklin, a 3x Founder and investor in early-stage companies. If you would like to see more from Inflection Moments, head to inflectionmoments.com for our newsletter and bonus resources.

Publisher

David Franklin

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Sept 2025

Latest episode

22 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

30 of 51 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #40. Michael Dell: The D2C Pioneer

   Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, shares his journey of disrupting the PC industry with a direct-to-consumer model and evolving into an enterprise technology leader in this interview.

2. 

   15 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #39. Marc Andreessen: Software Ate the World

   Host David Franklin interviews Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz, exploring his journey from igniting the commercial internet to reinventing venture capital.

3. 

   8 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #38. Conrad Hilton: Dreams in a Depression

   Host David Franklin interviews Conrad Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels, exploring his resilience and vision in building a global hospitality empire from humble beginnings.

Inside a recent episode

#40. Michael Dell: The D2C Pioneer

Published 22 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Now we're in Austin, 1983, and in his first year at UT while he's supposed to be studying biology, Michael discovers something extraordinary. He starts buying IBM PCs from retail stores, upgrading them, adding more memory, better hard drives, and selling them to local businesses and professionals at a price 10 to 15% below retail. And business is booming. Here's what Dell understands that almost nobody else in the industry does. He looks inside the IBM PC and realizes the IBM name is on the outside, but there's no IBM on the inside. The components are made by third-party manufacturers. Anybody can buy those components, and he's running the mental mess. […]

Who has been a guest on Inflection Moments

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• Michael Dell
• Marc Andreessen
• Holly Jackson
• Stephen Schwarzman
• Dario Amodei

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5.0 / 5

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