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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:44:34 Ben Gilbert The company's counsel, this is DoubleClick, checked her BlackBerry and held it up for David Rosenblatt to see.
- ▶ 2:29:58 David Rosenthal I think it was along with Blackberry's
- ▶ 2:31:51 David Rosenthal Basically, phone companies either were full stack, like Apple and the iPhone is today, where they made the phone and the operating system, so that was Nokia, and then the big player, in the smartphone market at least, was Blackberry, made…
- ▶ 2:36:45 David Rosenthal Blackberry is a thing.
- ▶ 2:39:26 David Rosenthal It's sort of the more Blackberry like device, not a touch screen device.
- ▶ 2:40:21 David Rosenthal Now, I believe Eric had disclosed to Steve about the Sooner project, because obviously it was public that Google had acquired Android, and I believe that Steve Jobs knew that Google was working on, like, a Blackberry-style phone, but he…
- ▶ 3:00:29 David Rosenthal Blackberry is dead.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:40:18 Ben Gilbert Android was a Blackberry clone at the time, not an iPhone clone.
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:45:35 Mark Zuckerberg Let's build this platform where we can get a web-based platform, so you basically build a native shell, and you build this web-based platform in it, and we'll be able to just update our apps every day, and we'll ship one thing once, and…
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 37:34 Mark Zuckerberg Let's build this platform where we can get a web-based platform, so you basically build a native shell, and you build this web-based platform in it, and we'll be able to just update our apps every day, and we'll ship one thing once, and…
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:05:55 Ben Gilbert What Windows Mobile was, was an operating system for handset makers to adopt and put on their handsets, and, you know, these things kind of looked like Blackberries, or mostly keys with a little screen, and when you looked at it, it looked…
- ▶ 3:13:19 Ben Gilbert Google has transformed Android from a Blackberry clone into an iPhone clone.
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:41:30 David Rosenthal I watched the Blackberry movie.
- ▶ 3:41:44 David Rosenthal Like, I don't know, Rim, Blackberry.
- ▶ 3:41:53 David Rosenthal You know, it's a good example of a, uh, we get asked all the time of, like, oh, can you guys cover, like, a failed company or, you know, a cautionary tale, and, um, it's hard to do unacquired because a lot of these companies are still…
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 3:11:30 David Rosenthal It had a wonky scroll wheel because Bezos was like, I've got a scroll wheel on my Blackberry and I want to a scroll wheel on my