Nokia, every mention
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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:31:51 David Rosenthal Basically, phone companies either were full stack, like Apple and the iPhone is today, where they made the phone and the operating system, so that was Nokia, and then the big player, in the smartphone market at least, was Blackberry, made…
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 2:10:46 Steve Ballmer 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.
- ▶ 2:11:04 Steve Ballmer Nokia wasn't signed up.
- ▶ 2:16:59 Ben Gilbert Yeah, so why did they end up buying Nokia then after your decision was final, you were out?
- ▶ 2:17:09 Steve Ballmer I mean, I'm not sure they really understood, but I had told them about, you know, we had a deep partnership with Nokia, and I'm not really sure, maybe guys really understood.
- ▶ 2:17:21 Steve Ballmer So there was really no go back to Nokia and see if we can have a bigger partnership.
- ▶ 2:17:27 Steve Ballmer The problem with the partnership with Nokia is they didn't have the money to invest in marketing.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30:23 David Rosenthal Because he's friends with Shah Rukh, he knows that Nokia, the big handset manufacturer at the time, remember, we're still slightly pre-smartphone era here.
- ▶ 1:30:39 David Rosenthal Nokia is desperate to get Shah Rukh as their celebrity spokesperson in India, and for whatever reason,
- ▶ 1:30:58 David Rosenthal Lala turns around, and he goes to Nokia, and he says, I know you want Shah Rukh.
- ▶ 1:31:49 David Rosenthal And he's gonna be wearing the shirt with Nokia right there in the front on the chest.
- ▶ 1:34:02 David Rosenthal Nokia is sponsoring your team for five million dollars.
- ▶ 1:34:34 David Rosenthal He had a signed agreement with Nokia to pay the five million for the front of the shirt for that year.
- ▶ 1:34:52 David Rosenthal We got Bollywood, and oh yeah, Nokia's in, and they're in for five million dollars for jersey sponsorship of a single team.
- ▶ 1:45:37 David Rosenthal And it's basically just like the Nokia and Shah Rukh Khan deal.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:19:55 David Rosenthal That brings us to Nokia.
- ▶ 3:19:59 David Rosenthal But I think let's save Nokia for the end here.
- ▶ 3:20:01 Ben Gilbert Yeah, Nokia is our coda.
- ▶ 3:21:54 Ben Gilbert They released Surface, they tried to buy Nokia,
- ▶ 3:50:30 David Rosenthal We have one more chapter in Nokia in the end of Steve's tenure to talk about here, but it turned out, actually, that the cloud market was so big
- ▶ 4:00:09 David Rosenthal To wrap up our history of this period of Microsoft and mobile and everything and Steve's tenure and talk about Nokia as we end things here.
- ▶ 4:00:20 Ben Gilbert Who bought Nokia?
- ▶ 4:01:13 David Rosenthal So there was one phone OEM that was willing to play ball with Microsoft and Windows Phone, and that was Nokia.
- ▶ 4:01:25 Ben Gilbert I mean, Nokia basically had Symbian as its OS.
- ▶ 4:01:52 David Rosenthal And the then CEO of Nokia was a guy named Steven Elop.
- ▶ 4:02:01 David Rosenthal He was a former Microsoft guy, and he had come over to run Nokia, so there were deep relationships there.
- ▶ 4:02:08 David Rosenthal In February, 20 11, Nokia agrees to adopt the Windows Phone operating system as its primary smartphone OS for its devices.
- ▶ 4:02:36 David Rosenthal So as we get into 2013, Nokia comes to Microsoft and says,
- ▶ 4:03:06 Ben Gilbert And what was the forthcoming acquisition offer for Nokia?
- ▶ 4:04:47 David Rosenthal Well, and Nokia is basically holding a gun to my head.
- ▶ 4:06:10 David Rosenthal On September third, so 10 days later, Microsoft agrees to buy Nokia's mobile unit for seven billion dollars.
- ▶ 4:06:29 David Rosenthal 10 days later, Microsoft agreed to buy Nokia.
- ▶ 4:06:33 Ben Gilbert The question kind of remains, who bought Nokia?
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:26:06 David Rosenthal They signed Nokia, big win, big European manufacturers as a, as a partner, but they realize, you know, to do this whole solution, like specifically, there's kind of four parts to making a CDMA wireless network work.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 2:20:56 Jason Calacanis Uh, that one's it, but there's a famous photo of the two of us, uh, you know, in front of my Corvette and his P-One, uh, and I remember that night like it was yesterday, because we were, this is before the iPhone, you realize, like, Robert…
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:55:21 David Rosenthal I mean, I guess an F would be like Nokia or something like that.
Complexity Investing & Semiconductors with NZS Capital (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07:31 Brinton Johns You know, we, when he took the company over, they have 40% of the business geared towards wireless and Nokia was a massive customer, their largest customer, and he bled that down to zero.