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▶ 3:46:02 David Rosenthal Two, the Carousel of Progress, sponsored by General Electric.
▶ 3:49:46 David Rosenthal Think everybody that Walt is partnering with at the World's Fair, Ford, GE, Pepsi, all the companies that are corporate sponsors back at Disneyland.

▶ 17:58 David Rosenthal You would call up your Merrill Lynch broker, and instead of saying, hey, give me five shares of General Electric, you'd say, hey, give me a couple of units of the Massachusetts fund, et cetera, et cetera.
▶ 40:16 David Rosenthal I don't care if you hold GE for a day or a week or a year.

▶ 2:39 David Rosenthal Yes, we heard all sorts of stories about companies sniffing around Epic over the years trying to buy the GE, Microsoft, Google, you know, everybody you would imagine wants to buy this company, and it's never gonna happen.
▶ 6:32 David Rosenthal Lockheed, GE, Siemens.

▶ 10:21 David Rosenthal But during that year, Bill is 13 years old, the Lakeside Mother's Club raises money to buy the school a teletype and connect it up and rent computer time from a DEC PDP-X that is located in downtown Seattle and owned by the branch office…
▶ 16:30 David Rosenthal Notice when we said earlier that Lakeside is renting computer time from the General Electric computer in downtown Seattle.
▶ 17:36 David Rosenthal So, you know, I am sure General Electric
▶ 17:39 David Rosenthal Bought lots and lots and lots of IBM mainframes and products at their headquarters.
▶ 17:45 David Rosenthal But the GE field office in Seattle, they're not gonna truck in a mainframe.
▶ 19:10 David Rosenthal But, you know, yeah, GE will buy one for the field office in Seattle, or universities will buy them for research, for their students, for their professors.
▶ 1:05:38 David Rosenthal Now, earlier, during 1976, Microsoft had started getting approached by a few of the bigger computing companies like NCR, National Cash Register, GE, Control Data Systems,
▶ 1:09:21 David Rosenthal They license it to all the big companies, the GEs, the NCRs, who wanna experiment with microcomputers.
▶ 2:22:59 David Rosenthal General Electric isn't gonna write a better spreadsheet than one, two, three.

▶ 22:02 Ben Gilbert In commercial, you've got Rolls-Royce, GE, but every single one of these Lockheed planes, the engines are made by someone else.
▶ 1:36:16 Ben Gilbert It is in a custom-designed canister called the film bucket that General Electric designed.
▶ 2:44:15 David Rosenthal Lockheed soon purchased General Dynamics aircraft business, and Martin Marietta purchased General Electric's aerospace business.

▶ 2:56:55 Ben Gilbert GE bought the wind business from Enron, and I believe even today is sort of the cornerstone of their wind energy business.

▶ 1:30:40 Brendan Eich So was General Electric, but it ended up a tax dodger and a subprime lender, right?

▶ 2:00:13 David Rosenthal Then he recruited, uh, GE and RKO, like, and the Radio City Music Hall.

▶ 1:29:18 Michael Mauboussin I mean, the number one company was General Electric.
▶ 1:29:20 Michael Mauboussin General Electric was considered to be sort of the
▶ 1:29:26 Michael Mauboussin And I mean, if you could draw a manager from GE's considered the best management training program in the world, right?

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