PalmPilot
product on 17 shows · 5 statements across 3 episodes · said 88 times in 37 episodes since 2018
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2019 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
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5 statements about PalmPilot, every show
Levchin: Original PalmPilot lacked encryption and allowed open communication sniffing
“And then I looked at the security design of the Palm pilot and was sort of flabbergasted to know that there was no way to encrypt anything. You could communicate with other Palm pilots, but people could sniff the communication and just steal your secrets.”
PayPal's makeshift web-to-web demo accidentally drove its explosive early growth
“And as a footnote, we had a Web to Web, very much a demo quality product that I threw together to just show how this works if you just don't happen to have any Palm Pilots around. And it's that demo that took off like crazy.”
Kurt Rathmann connected QuickBooks to a Palm Pilot via 3G in high school
“I had a company in high school, it's a landscape lighting company. And so at that Well, not a tech company. What I was trying to do is solve a real time inventory environment. So I had a garage full of inventory and I had a QuickBooks desktop computer and I wa…”
Altman: VR in 2018 Is in the Palm Pilot Era, Not iPhone
“Doesn't mean that VR will not be big someday, but this is, you know, I don't think you can make a high conviction bet on starting a VR company today, at least that the, or at least that the TAM will be huge. It still feels like we're at the Palm Pilot, not the…”