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Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated Aug 27, 2026 · 1 mention

The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock Aug 22, 2026 · 1 mention

Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks Jul 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:41 Harry Stebbings Jensen Huang breaks his silence, he produces his first ever post on X, and it's an open weights manifesto, and it's signed by some of the biggest companies in the world, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, many others, um,
  • ▶ 29:46 Rory O'Driscoll What you're saying at the end is some version of no one gets fired for buying IBM, and you think at the margin no one will get fired.
  • ▶ 30:45 Harry Stebbings Uh, we mentioned obviously NVIDIA and Jensen there, and you don't get fired for buying IBM.

Zuckerberg Back on X Challenging Codex & Claude Code | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 16, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 28:05 Rory O'Driscoll If you go to the BLS, which I did last weekend, there were only 1.8 million developers in the United States, of which only 200,000 of them work in software companies, another 600,000 work in tech companies, you know, HP, IBM, and a million…
  • ▶ 39:43 Jason Lemkin I thought it was interesting that, uh, you know, IBM this week, pretty, pretty old tech company, right? 4 times in the scene

Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 9, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:46 unnamed speaker Every technology company either goes bust or lives long enough to become next generation's IBM.
  • ▶ 1:10:09 unnamed speaker Every technology company either goes bust or lives long enough to become next generation's IBM. 5 times in the scene

Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 2, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 29:52 Rory O'Driscoll It's, it would be like as if in 1981 or 82, the government's, um, I, I give you an IBM. 4 times in the scene

Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18:10 Aravind Srinivas IBM is still around because they went and bought Red Hat and HashiCorp, and now they're buying Confluent. 2 times in the scene

SpaceX Launches Largest Ever IPO | OpenAI Files to Go Public | Uber Cuts 23% of HR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:23 unnamed speaker The entropic sale force in five years will look like the Oracle sales force, the Microsoft sale force, and the IBM sale force, 50 years ago, because.

The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 30, 2026 · 1 mention

Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 47:48 Chris Degnan I think, you know, there's, you know, look, when, when, uh, I went to Snowflake, the enterprise was, uh, you know, was still in the data center and, and, you know, IBM was still selling mainframes. 2 times in the scene

Inside Legora: Jude Law Generated $50M Pipeline | Are They Undervalued at $5.5BN? | Patrick Forquer · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:27 Patrick Forquer And I think generally people want to feel like, you know, you never got fired for hiring IBM. 2 times in the scene

Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 7, 2026 · 1 mention

Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 4, 2026 · 1 mention

SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 16, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 33:04 unnamed speaker At best, you build a mini version of IBM, CA, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:49 unnamed speaker As I said, you'll be IBM.

ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:30 unnamed speaker And I think like the ideal scenario is like, no one gets fired, like the idea, like, you remember like IBM, right? 2 times in the scene

Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:24 Jason Lemkin Um, but it's also interesting that conceptually, just like reviewing COBOL code dropped IBM 10%, it already existed.

Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 9, 2026 · 1 mention

Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18:57 Jason Lemkin And so my, my, and my advice to them is stay wherever you, IBM reported that turnover was almost two percent last year. 2 times in the scene

Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:18 unnamed speaker IBM, back in the day, same thing.

AI Fund’s GP, Andrew Ng: LLMs as the Next Geopolitical Weapon & Do Margins Still Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:15 Andrew Ng So before we wound up having a clear conception of where the draw lines and whether the API boundaries, the integrated players, IBM back in the day, could solve all the problems and, and, you know, build, build valuable working

20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets Nov 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

Cohere's Chief AI Officer, Joelle Pineau: Why Scaling Laws Will Continue & Future of Synthetic Data · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 3, 2025 · 1 mention

OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 6:27 Rory O'Driscoll IBM was the old school company that set them up by doing that famous DOS licensing deal, right? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:17 Rory O'Driscoll Brutal comment here, just like IBM got a buzz when they shipped the first PC, because they got a product out the door, but they let this competitor emerge in their midst.

Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

Opendoor CEO, Kaz Nejatian: OpenAI and Oracle, How Can Either Afford to Do This · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:09 unnamed speaker So, in fact, both these companies, ironically, just like Microsoft, 30 years ago, used IBM and then left them.

BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:11:14 Byron Deeter I, I think they're gonna let market forces, you know, operate there again, and so there will be this buying imperative that rolls through the public markets, and companies like SAP and Oracle and IBM need to buy or they're gonna get…

Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2025 · 1 mention

Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 4, 2025 · 1 mention

Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:45 Rory O'Driscoll I remember we, for example, we were in data stacks, which is similar size, probably a little company, sold to IBM, great outcome for all concerned, very happy to get it done.

20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment May 9, 2025 · 1 mention

Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:45 Mitchell Green It's like, again, you don't get fired higher, you don't get fired higher on IBM, higher on McKinsey.

Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 21, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 8:28 Elias Torres And so that's, it's like an IBM computer, like, you know, in the eighties, and I would be typing my homework in this printer in WordPerfect and using Lotus one, two, three.
  • ▶ 10:29 Harry Stebbings Um, you mentioned that typing away on a little IBM computer in the, in the garage. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:05 Elias Torres I mean, to me, just being in that world and creating, compared to my IBM days, right, and being frustrated for not being able to do anything, and people just leaving at five o'clock and not caring, oh, I'm an SDSM, I'm a distinguished…
  • ▶ 54:15 Elias Torres We had these kids, but I would work all day at IBM, and I would go home, and it was like dinner time, bathing, ah, and like, put them to bed, then doing the dishes.
  • ▶ 55:33 Elias Torres And I hated that question, you know, in IBM, right?

Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 10, 2025 · 4 mentions

Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:18 Sridhar Ramaswamy We all know no one wants to be the person that is going to be known for the IBM deal with Microsoft.

Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 13, 2025 · 1 mention

Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2024 · 1 mention

Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:07 Dan Fougere Like, that's why I say old school is, is the new school and it's the good school because the things that worked for the fuller brush salesman or IBM or Wang or, you know, uh, HP back in the day, it'll always work because humans don't…

Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 7, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:24 Eiso Kant And I think we've had lots of examples in, in technology history already, where we have seen these giant, that seemed unbeatable, IBM in the early days of the personal computer.

Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 23, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:55 Chad Peets and then you went to IBM to use an extreme example. 2 times in the scene

Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 3, 2024 · 1 mention

Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 27, 2024 · 2 mentions

Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 18, 2024 · 1 mention

Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 1, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 11:37 Frank Quattrone They thought Microsoft was too expensive because it was at 25 times earnings, and, um, uh, a bunch of them had bought Apple, but, you know, they, they really weren't too sure about this PC industry because the big computer companies were…
  • ▶ 19:25 Frank Quattrone I think companies like Cisco and IBM and the ones that all had two hundred billion dollars of cash, they could have scooped up every great emerging growth company
  • ▶ 47:31 Frank Quattrone The deal sizes were small, but the hardest part was like, if you had a, a market where the technology of IBM and digital equipment and a data general and Apollo and Sun,
  • ▶ 1:03:48 Frank Quattrone When PCs came, it was no longer IBM.

Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 4, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:28:49 Jason Lemkin So it's great to have added sponsors and partners like Cisco and IBM and others that we did not have before, which is great.

Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 22, 2023 · 3 mentions

Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:55 Beezer Clarkson You don't get fired for buying IBM, and many, and this is sort of, um, I'm using Chris Duvos' line, so I always want to give credit when I'm stealing somebody's words.

Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings | E1071 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 11, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:00 Deven Parekh Um, when, you know, Cisco comes along, or, you know, IBM comes along, or name whoever strategic you want comes along and says, hey, you know, here's a 1,000,000,004.

Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:43 Scott Farquhar Like you saw, you know, DEC, DEC, and a whole bunch of, you know, minicomputer people didn't make it to the PC, and instead you saw sort of IBM and Microsoft rise, and then the internet came around, and you saw Microsoft wane a little bit,…

Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 22, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:51 Christian Kleinerman At the time, SQL Server was coming from way behind competing with market leaders that were at Oracle and IBM, and the way in was not to have every single feature and capability that those technologies had.
  • ▶ 28:39 Christian Kleinerman There was another one from IBM.
  • ▶ 30:52 Christian Kleinerman One again from last week, IBM was announcing their own Gen AI models, and they were talking about being fully transparent on the data that went into the models. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:07 Harry Stebbings You've mentioned IBM there last week.

Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:32 Guy Podjarny I was in the sort of the cyber parts of the Israeli army, uh, did that for about four and a half years, and then went into a startup in the AppSec space that got acquired by another startup that got acquired by IBM. 2 times in the scene

Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 17, 2023 · 1 mention

Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 15, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:17 Yann LeCun So that was the case for, you know, Deep Blue, the chess player that IBM built, uh, in the, in the mid nineties that, that beat, you know, Garry Kasparov, you know, same thing with the DARPA Grand Challenge that, uh, Sebastian Thun team… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:36 Yann LeCun And then, you know, AlphaGo and, and, you know, the IBM Jeopardy.

Frank Fillmann: How I Boosted Revenue by $500M at Salesforce; Tips for Hiring Salespeople | E992 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 22, 2023 · 3 mentions

Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 11, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Amjad Masad So, like, move fast and break things could be, like, move slow and don't break anything, and that could be, like, a value at IBM, right?
  • ▶ 17:32 Amjad Masad And that could be like a value at IBM.

Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 26, 2022 · 1 mention

20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with Nov 23, 2022 · 1 mention

20 Sales: The Ultimate Guide to Sales Onboarding for New Sales Reps and Sales Leaders, The Biggest Red Flags in the First 30 Days & What Can Be Done to Set Them Up for Success with Leaders from Figma, Dropbox, Miro and more. Nov 16, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:12 Harry Stebbings Some of the world's leading companies like IBM, Shopify, and Stripe all love a new sales loft, and so can you.
  • ▶ 29:48 Harry Stebbings Some of the world's leading companies like IBM, Shopify, and Stripe all love a new sales loft, and so can you.

Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 25, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:36 Emil Michael There was, there's enterprise tech like Hewlett Packard and IBM and all those guys, but no one else had done that.

Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 18, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:00 Des Traynor There's a lot of money selling software to IBM, you know, so, um, so generally the money still tends to bring you home.

Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 6, 2022 · 1 mention

Oren Zeev: How I Raised $1 BILLION in 12 Months | 20VC #888 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 24, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:38 Oren Zeev and then I was a staff member at IBM.
  • ▶ 43:56 Oren Zeev And the founder is a very close friend of mine from, from IBM.
  • ▶ 44:03 Oren Zeev Well, from Uruguay, but he also lived for 10 years in Israel and worked together in the same, ah, you know, ah, ah, next room, you know, ah, ah, ah, adjacent rooms at, ah, at IBM Research.

20 Sales: Zoom's Head of North America Sales on When To Hire a Head of Sales, Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Before Sales Reps, The 3 Traits to Look for When Hiring Sales Reps & What Sales Leaders Can Do To Make Their Sales Team Feel Like They Are Wi Apr 27, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:58 Harry Stebbings Some of the world's leading companies like IBM, Shopify, and Stripe all love a new sales loft, and so can you.
  • ▶ 36:23 Harry Stebbings Some of the world's leading companies like IBM, Shopify, and Stripe all love a new sales loft, and so can you.

20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire? Mar 30, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:10 Harry Stebbings Some of the world's leading companies like IBM, Shopify, and Stripe all love a new sales loft, and so can you.
  • ▶ 34:00 Harry Stebbings Some of the world's leading companies like IBM, Shopify, and Stripe all love a new sales loft, and so can you.

20 Sales: The Stripe Sales Playbook; Who Should Create It, When Should it Be Done, Where Do Many Go Wrong | How To Identify 10x Sales Hires and How To Structure the Hiring Process in Sales with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, Head of Americas Revenue & Growth @ St Mar 9, 2022 · 3 mentions

20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital Feb 2, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:14 Harry Stebbings Some of the world's leading companies like IBM, Shopify, and Stripe all love a new SalesLoft, and so can you.
  • ▶ 44:29 Harry Stebbings Some of the world's leading companies like IBM, Shopify, and Stripe all love a new sales loft, and so can you.

20 Sales: When To Hire Your Head of Sales/ First Reps, What To Look for in 10x Sales Candidates, How To Structure The Hiring Process, How To Onboard New Reps Efficiently, How To Set First Quotas and more with Kyle Parrish, Figma's VP Sales Dec 8, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18 Harry Stebbings Some of the world's leading companies like IBM, Shopify, and Stripe
  • ▶ 36:58 Harry Stebbings Some of the world's most impressive companies like IBM, Shopify, and Stripe all love a new sales loft, and so can you.

20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C Aug 23, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:14 Emilie Choi Now, no offense, but if they say something like IBM, which I've definitely had, they're not going to be a fit for Coinbase.

20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage May 27, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings And prior to joining the world of venture, Byron was an entrepreneur, raising a Series A from Bessemer, and scaling the company to be one of the first global SaaS companies, reaching profitability and selling to IBM.

20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue Mar 11, 2021 · 1 mention

20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively Feb 26, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:03 Patrick Spence It's something around technology and computing, and so that really spurred me, actually, to do an internship between my third and fourth year of college at IBM, and I learned a whole bunch and got to work on the ThinkPad team, so I got a… 2 times in the scene
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