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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.