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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 3:02:21 David Rosenthal So over the next couple of years, Time Warner sells itself to AT&T.
- ▶ 3:02:28 David Rosenthal AT&T changes its mind.
- ▶ 3:15:29 Ben Gilbert During the regulatory approval process, there's a different ruling that happens around AT&T's merger.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:58:11 Ben Gilbert I mean, AT&T slash Direct TV, NBC slash Universal.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:34:12 David Rosenthal AT&T or Verizon is gonna work with a little rinky dink startup that's valued at like, ten million dollars and has eight employees.
- ▶ 2:51:56 David Rosenthal And the biggest problem with the iPhone, at least in the US, you can only get it on AT&T.
- ▶ 2:53:30 David Rosenthal Verizon, at this point, is getting pummeled by AT&T.
- ▶ 2:53:38 David Rosenthal AT&T isn't just stealing a lot of subscribers from Verizon because of the iPhone.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:13:24 David Rosenthal iPhone launches on AT&T.
- ▶ 1:13:38 Steve Ballmer Could have been not, it could have even been oh nine, but Verizon, the emperor had, you know, the empire had to strike back against AT&T and there was a window.
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:25:13 Ben Gilbert There's a chance this thing's worth more than American Express, or Goldman Sachs, or Adobe, or Pepsi, or Disney, or Qualcomm, or AT&T.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:17:08 Ben Gilbert I think the biggest moment when the door really shut is when Verizon freaked out after the Apple and AT&T deal and said, we need an answer, and they decided that answer was Droid, and they put like a gajillion dollars behind the Droid…
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:04 Ben Gilbert Part of the AT&T breakup.
- ▶ 3:58:55 Ben Gilbert There's not a classic network Facebook or AT&T style network here.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:57 Ben Gilbert AT&T, who has been the incumbent for a hundred years on all things telecommunications, commissioned McKinsey and company to predict cell phone.
- ▶ 1:11:48 Ben Gilbert Like you had some of the smartest people in the world, both in domain depth at AT&T and just good business model thinkers at McKinsey wildly misforecasting this.
- ▶ 1:11:58 Ben Gilbert And to illustrate how big the miss was, AT&T eventually bought Macaw Cellular for 12.6 billion dollars to become AT&T Wireless, which is the AT&T we actually all know today, and catch up in mobile telephony.
- ▶ 1:57:59 Ben Gilbert I remember AT&T did this, right?
- ▶ 1:58:01 David Rosenthal Like, they were like, uh, all of a sudden, because I was on AT&T at the time, used to say for GLT, and then all of a sudden it just said five G on my phone.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 35:09 David Rosenthal Uh, it went through a whole bunch of owners and it was all related to AT&T and the various entities as part of that, that they were going to open up the transistor for international licensing.
- ▶ 1:40:56 David Rosenthal AT&T?