IBM, every mention
9 scenes, the whole family · ← back to IBM
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Marc Andreessen 12John Collison 2Bret Taylor 2Tarek Mansour 1Satya Nadella 1Mati Staniszewski 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where IBM comes up
The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs
- ▶ 44:24 Mati Staniszewski But the, the best proof of the technology working, so recently we are announced our work with Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile, with Revolut, with Klarna, with Meta, with IBM.
Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara
- ▶ 38:40 Tarek Mansour That, at least to me, feels a little bit more interesting than, like, anything about IBM's quarterly earnings every quarter.
Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
- ▶ 52:33 Bret Taylor Um, there's the old saying, no one gets fired for buying IBM, um, which few people say right now, uh, though IBM's actually, like, doing really well, uh, under Arvin. 2 times in the scene
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 1:03:27 Satya Nadella And having competed against Oracle and IBM on all the middle tier servers and, and so on, I felt like, no, this enterprise customer and commercial customers by and large are going to demand sort of a multiple.
Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea
- ▶ 1:14:55 John Collison Yeah, the IBM problem. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 33:29 Marc Andreessen And then IBM decided, you know, famously to enter the PC business, and, you know, and then there was a network connection with Bill Gates' mother and the CEO of IBM, and they were on a board together, and it resulted in the IBM team, you… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:01 Marc Andreessen And by the way, the IBM PC, you know, and then the clones, ultimately, that came out of it, like, completely standardized the, you know, the industry, but, like, all of the PC companies from before that, like, went away.
- ▶ 50:51 Marc Andreessen Uh, you know, to an IBM mainframe or something, you know, like it doesn't make any sense. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:06 Marc Andreessen Thomas Watson, senior, who ran IBM in the 19 fifties, said he thought there was a world market for five computers, and it was literally, like, three, one, one mainframe each for the three big insurance companies, and then two for the…