Nokia
6 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 3, 2021 by Brinton Johns · said 37 times in 8 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by David Rosenthal (23), Ben Gilbert (7), Steve Ballmer (5), Jason Calacanis (1), Brinton Johns (1)
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2025 15 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
2024 18 mentions in 1 episode
2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Nokia, oldest first
Nov 3, 2021 positive
Jul 22, 2024
Rosenthal: Majority of Microsoft leadership and Satya Nadella opposed Nokia acquisition
“At one point, as Satya talks about in the book, there's a straw poll taken of all the division heads, all the top leaders in the company, whether they're for or against the acquisition. The majority are against the acquisition. Satya is against the acquisition…”
Jul 22, 2024 positive
Gilbert: Acquisitions costing only idle cash should be evaluated like venture bets
“When it doesn't cost you focus or your best people or whatever the scarce resources are and it only costs you cash, then you should totally think about it as, am I willing to bet 2.3% of my company or whatever percent of the cash that I'm not getting any credi…”
Mar 24, 2025
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
Ballmer: Microsoft explored acquiring HTC years before buying Nokia
“I'd been trying to buy a hard, I had talked about buying a phone company for years, a number of years before the Nokia deal. I forget what year it was. I flew to Taiwan and we were looking at buying HTC. They were the biggest Windows phone OEM at the time. Nok…”
Jun 2, 2025 neutral
Ballmer: Nokia partnership failed without acquisition due to marketing funding economics
“The problem with the partnership with Nokia is they didn't have the money to invest in marketing. We did. We did. They didn't have the market to go. They did not have the ability to go deep pockets. We did. But if we didn't have the monetization capability bac…”