Silicon Graphics, every mention
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every year anyone Brendan Eich 8David Rosenthal 5Ben Gilbert 4Mitch Lasky 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Silicon Graphics comes up
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:55:12 Ben Gilbert His classmates are famed computer scientist Alan Kay, Jim Clark of Netscape and Silicon Graphics, and John Warnock, who founded Adobe.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:03:30 Ben Gilbert Of SGI and Netscape?
- ▶ 1:03:33 David Rosenthal Of Silicon Graphics and Netscape.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:30 David Rosenthal And that was a company called Silicon Graphics that would make all the hardware.
- ▶ 11:42 David Rosenthal And SGI, as Silicon Graphics was referred to, was legendary.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40:09 Mitch Lasky The, you know, this is pre-silicon graphics.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:55:17 David Rosenthal Two, we've talked about this on a few other episodes in the past, you know, Nintendo, they had this relationship with Silicon Graphics, like, you needed industrial workstations to develop games for Nintendo.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 12:40 Ben Gilbert Even before Netscape, before JavaScript, you joined Silicon Graphics.
- ▶ 12:46 Ben Gilbert And I think that's, or SGI as it's called, and we've talked on many episodes about the unbelievable, incredible talent nexus that was SGI.
- ▶ 13:39 Brendan Eich Jim Clark about Silicon Graphics, doing Unix workstations with VLSI, three D graphics.
- ▶ 14:05 Brendan Eich Then I interviewed SGI, and I signed on the bottom line, and it was great.
- ▶ 14:08 Brendan Eich SGI was super hot.
- ▶ 14:35 Brendan Eich It was before, I think, because early on, Jim realized he wasn't CEO, so Ed McCracken was running it, and Jim was on the board, but I think at some point, Jim had trouble as founder keeping control, as usual, due to dilution, and so by 94,…
- ▶ 14:57 David Rosenthal And SGI did the graphics for Jurassic Park, right?
- ▶ 15:12 Brendan Eich And SGI got big and kind of boring.
- ▶ 15:20 Brendan Eich So a friend from SGI who'd come in from a team at IBM, Jeff Weinstein, had gone ahead of me to a company called MicroUnity.
- ▶ 17:27 Brendan Eich To me, a little bit scandalous, because in the eighties, SGI had to have three profitable quarters before it could IPO, whereas Netscape just went on forward speculation and forward multiples, and it was not profitable.
- ▶ 51:24 Brendan Eich Because even in the early nineties, Silicon graphics operating system was getting bloated.