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General Magic

3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 6, 2022 by David Rosenthal · said 11 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Sep 6, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: 'Cloud infrastructure' originated at General Magic for mobile back-end services
“It started At General Magic. How crazy is that? The Apple spin out that invented the iPhone, 20 years before the iPhone, as part of what they were doing, they also wanted to have, you know, the internet sort of barely existed, so I don't think they thought of …”
David Rosenthal Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 31:05 Amazon Web Services · Acquired
Sep 28, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Pierre Omidyar created eBay while employed full-time at General Magic
“He was still a full-time employee at General Magic when creating eBay.”
Ben Gilbert Sep 28, 2022 ▶ 1:14:09 Benchmark Part I · Acquired
Sep 28, 2022 positive
Opinion
General Magic invented the early concepts of cloud and mobile computing
“They invented the concept of cloud. They invented the concept of mobile.”
David Rosenthal Sep 28, 2022 ▶ 1:12:53 Benchmark Part I · Acquired
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