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Udvar-Hazy pledged $60M for the Smithsonian Dulles museum in five minutes
“I said, okay, I'm in for 60. Okay. So these two older gentlemen thought that what I meant is I would contribute 60,000 dollars. Yeah. That's kind of what they expected. And I said, no, no, no, not sixty thousand, sixty million.”
Liu: Smithsonian CD-ROM bundled with early iMacs yielded $1 per disc
“This publisher managed to get the CD-ROM OEM bundled with every one of the early iMacs. So if you bought the one of those iMacs, you got our disc, and as a result, you know, we got maybe a, I think it was like a dollar per disc that was actually distributed, s…”
Southwest claims Smithsonian credit for e-tickets, but Morris Air invented them
“They were, and have credit today in the Smithsonian as being the first Ticketless airline, but it was really our system that did it.”
Goslins: Museum expectations have shifted from monologue to dialogue
“In general, the expectation has gone from the museum is a monologue to it's a dialogue.”
Goslins: Free entry means the Smithsonian lacks basic visitor data
“Because we're a free set of museums. You know, we don't have a lot of information on our visitors.”
Liu: Smithsonian CD-ROM was OEM bundled with early Apple iMacs
“This publisher managed to get the CD-ROM OEM bundled with every one of the early iMacs. So if you bought the one of those iMacs, you got our disc, and as a result, you know, we got maybe a, I think it was like a dollar per disc that was actually distributed, s…”
Roney: Bundled Smithsonian CD-ROM was among top-grossing discs ever
“Yeah, no, so millions of these discs, sort of one of the top grossing discs of all time because it got bundled. It was such an easy win, and that was the, yeah, that turned out to be the sort of launch of our company.”