Linkabit, every mention

Qualcomm · Acquired Nov 15, 2022 · 27 mentions

• ▶ 23:14 David Rosenthal He would credit that year and a half with really helping him start first link of it, his first company, and then Qualcomm get out of academia and become an entrepreneur because he actually learned about like business
• ▶ 29:00 David Rosenthal Um, uh, they sort of tongue in cheek decide to call it link a bit.
• ▶ 29:09 David Rosenthal Uh, so who, who is this third partner in Linkabit?
• ▶ 31:48 Ben Gilbert And the timing is perfect because the time of Linkabit
• ▶ 31:56 Ben Gilbert Oh, Linkabit's early seventies.
• ▶ 31:58 Ben Gilbert So they have like 15 years of Linkabit before.
• ▶ 32:02 David Rosenthal There's a long Linkabit is involved.
• ▶ 32:19 David Rosenthal Um, they start bringing on other professors, other grad students into Linkabit to kind of build this sort of, like, army of the greatest, you know, information theory and wireless signal minds in the country.
• ▶ 32:45 David Rosenthal Uh, and so they start building the company that eventually in 1971, there's so much going on.
• ▶ 32:51 David Rosenthal Erwin decides he's going to take a sabbatical from UCSD and spend a year just organizing the company.
• ▶ 34:13 David Rosenthal Linkabit is not going to be a prime then or ever.
• ▶ 34:28 David Rosenthal Do you know what the first, like, contract project that Linkabit did was?
• ▶ 35:12 David Rosenthal Linkovitz first project is doing the satellite communication system.
• ▶ 37:04 David Rosenthal So it used to be before the Link-A-Bit solution for multiple access cable systems, um, if you, like, were even mildly technical or could, like,
• ▶ 37:33 David Rosenthal And so Jacobs and Viterbi and all the, the brain trust at Linkabit, they, they solve that problem.
• ▶ 38:03 David Rosenthal Um, in 1980, the, uh, link of it, the company,
• ▶ 38:25 David Rosenthal Um, anyway, they sell the business for twenty five million bucks in, um, 1980, which like.
• ▶ 39:02 David Rosenthal Like, basically they made a big mistake selling the company.
• ▶ 39:09 Ben Gilbert They wouldn't have had Qualcomm if they didn't sell the company.
• ▶ 39:13 David Rosenthal They made absolutely the right decision in selling link of it then.
• ▶ 40:50 David Rosenthal Among the most brilliant minds in the world, but they're also like, especially Erwin, like incredible business people, market analysts, like they're very aware, like the products they developed, the link of it, they're aware that this…
• ▶ 43:08 David Rosenthal Uh, so, you know, the Linkabet folks, everyone and Andy, they see, they see this, they know, and they're like, oh, this industry is in its infancy.
• ▶ 43:30 David Rosenthal In July of 1985, with seven, seven in total, Andy, Erwin, and five other of the best Linkabit engineers, they meet at Erwin's house, and they decided to start this new company, and they name it Qualcomm.
• ▶ 47:19 David Rosenthal In the same fashion that Linkabit did.
• ▶ 59:59 David Rosenthal So they focus on this, and they also have, like, a lot of the business, you know, relationships already from the previous iteration of what they were doing in Linkovit, including with Walmart and many of the other large companies and…
• ▶ 1:01:06 David Rosenthal Um, and there's particularly a lot of cogs because one of the things they learn from doing this, and one of the reasons the companies merge, they first, kind of like the Link-A-Bit days,
• ▶ 2:12:50 David Rosenthal And indeed there are like, you know, link a bit in Qualcomm, there are like a hundred plus, um, in the San Diego area that came out of Qualcomm.