IBM, every mention

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▶ 49:55 Marc Andreessen General Manager out of either Hewlett Packard or IBM were the two training grounds for this guy.
▶ 1:20:51 Marc Andreessen And Jim had run, you know, big parts of IBM and AT&T and the Federal Express.
▶ 1:32:25 Marc Andreessen Um, and, and I got this lesson early because I worked for IBM at the, at the point of their kind of maximum size and importance in the world. 16 times in the scene

▶ 1:18:48 David Senra I went, picked it up off the shelf the other day, and I, I wanted to, because he said something that I think is very fascinating that I reference in conversations and other episodes that I make, where, you know, he's like, I'm 19 years…

▶ 15:09 David Senra And I was talking to him, I was like, hey, I heard you on a podcast one time, you said one of the funniest things, because somebody asked him, like, you know, when you were starting Dell in the University of Texas dorm room with a thousand…
▶ 1:35:54 David Senra So he actually gets a guy to come in and be, I think the vice president or president and help him, and the guy's like, 20 years older than him.

▶ 32:50 David Senra IBM is the most valuable company in the world at the time, which I didn't know it was the first company to hit a hundred billion market cap, which is nuts. 2 times in the scene

▶ 5:53 David Senra I had a thought when I was reading your book, you know, at the time you're taking part in IBM, you know, this is, I'm pretty sure before you're, you're a teenager, so this is before you start Dell officially. 7 times in the scene
▶ 7:04 Michael Dell And, you know, when I, uh, originally got the first IBM PC, you know, yeah, 2 times in the scene
▶ 32:48 David Senra I mean, think about the story in the book where I think the line that I summarized what you were saying about IBM is like, yeah, the personal computers, you know, fine.
▶ 55:35 David Senra I used to say, it's like, you need to build a business that's authentic to you, and then in this book, Lee was, you know, talking about, he was only able to last four years, I think, um, and he's just like, you know, we're fighting at IBM,…
▶ 1:06:01 David Senra So, I have a funny story about this, and then I want to get back to Compaq and IBM. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:12:32 David Senra So, we were just talking about the fact that Compact and IBM, they were almost like
▶ 1:25:30 David Senra And you're like, I want to compete with IBM.

▶ 1:45:25 David Senra Where they're like, okay, uh, we owned IBM in the 19 fifties, and I didn't know until I read Michael Dell's autobiography, right, because IBM was, it's like, they're the most powerful and wealthiest company in the world when me and you… 4 times in the scene

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