AT&T

“None of this stuff is actually that new, this concept that we're talking about here, right? So if you think about, you know, a company like Comcast, right, or you think about AT&T, they'got this same problem, which is, you know, it costs a lot of money to acqu…”

“I've seen companies die over it, literally. Yep. So doing a deal with Verizon and you can never do another, at a, too early of a stage. You know, not being able to then do a deal with, You know, AT&T or Sprint or anyone else.”

“One of the things that allowed Apple to disrupt everything was by saying, no, no, no, no, it's just a piece of wire, and we ignore it completely. We make zero effort to optimize bandwidth, and, you know, it's kind of an overstatement, but we just completely ig…”

“When we launched the company, actually went public with the company, not like public as in the stock market, but we actually came out of stealth. We had AT&T, NTT, eBay, Rackspace, and Fidelity.”

“The first time it was used was in 19 oh seven in a annual report by AT&T.”

“Bell Labs and AT&T were not the major beneficiaries of the discovery of the transistor. Xerox was not the major beneficiary of the discoverer of modern personal computing, right?”

“In 1984 a federal judge went to break up AT&T which at that time was the national telecom monopoly. They owned and controlled everything. And AT&T actually got the Secretary of Defense in 1984, 20 years later, to testify that that if the federal judge broke up…”

“WorldCom and AT&T did not predict the internet was going to come out of universities.”

“But if you think of the largest issuers of private investment grade, it's Intel, it's Air France, it's EDF, it's AT&T, it's Meta, it's BP Energy, and so on, and you're hearing lots of public companies.”

“AT&T had a solution. Verizon had a solution. There were a number of companies that were in sort of the, you know, hundreds of millions, half a billion in revenue already doing this.”