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Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 8:30 David Rosenthal We start with one of the most famous film actresses, Hollywood film actresses of all time, a woman named Hedy Lamarr.
- ▶ 8:41 Ben Gilbert And side note, the fact that we're starting with Hedy Lamarr on the story of how modern telecommunications came to be is so cool.
- ▶ 8:55 Ben Gilbert And they sent back this excerpt of, you should go read up on Hedy Lamarr.
- ▶ 9:05 David Rosenthal So Hedy was an incredible, she was like just an incredible human being.
- ▶ 9:59 David Rosenthal Uh, he was a Nazi arms dealer, which made him very rich at the time, which is probably how he met Hetty, and they became married.
- ▶ 10:09 David Rosenthal Hetty, though, uh, probably unknown to Friedrich, and certainly unknown to his business associates, including Hitler and Mussolini,
- ▶ 10:17 David Rosenthal Hedy was, uh, Jewish.
- ▶ 10:20 David Rosenthal And, um, so Friedrich would bring his beautiful, you know, film actress, world-renowned film actress bride, to his business meetings, you know, with the Nazi military powers, and, uh, Hedy was listening in to everything that was going on,…
- ▶ 11:56 David Rosenthal And so, Hedy wants to contribute to the Allied war effort.
- ▶ 12:15 David Rosenthal So Hetty teams up with her new Hollywood neighbor, a composer, a music composer, named George Antheal, bear with us here, I promise this is getting to Qualcomm, uh, who is a film music composer, and they, with her ideas and his musical…
- ▶ 15:11 David Rosenthal So here's where, if this were a, you know, Hollywood movie, like one of Hedy's films,
- ▶ 15:46 Ben Gilbert It's worth sharing how their prototype worked, though.
- ▶ 25:11 David Rosenthal Without what's gonna come later in Hedy Lamarr, that he would start Qualcomm.
- ▶ 31:36 David Rosenthal And what ends up getting used, but this old patented spread spectrum technology from the World War II era invented by Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil.
- ▶ 1:59:25 David Rosenthal So far across the spectrum bands that like, yeah, there's, oh man, think about like back to the original Hedy Lamarr and frequency hopping, like it was all within one band.