Hewlett-Packard, every mention
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The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 50:09 David Senra Steve would use HP as his North Star example.
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 17:03 David Senra He was an engineer at Hewlett Packard, and he was a ham radio operator.
- ▶ 24:25 David Senra Waz sold his HP calculator, which were very expensive things at the time, and I sold my VW bust. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:42 David Senra Waz had a great job designing handheld calculators at Hewlett Packard, and I had a fun job designing games at Atari, and we were giving them up to start this company. 2 times in the scene
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 27:41 David Senra Before World War II, two Stanford graduates named Bill Hewlett and David Packard created a very innovative electronics company, Hewlett Packard. 5 times in the scene
How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
- ▶ 22:21 David Senra So it says a few well-known electronics firms were already here, General Electric and IBM, as well as a company that started up locally, Hewlett Packard. 3 times in the scene
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
- ▶ 24:51 David Senra There's a great line from David Packard, the founder of HP, where he says that more companies die from indigestion than starvation.
The Autobiography of Quentin Tarantino
- ▶ 34:15 David Senra Looks up Bill Hewlett, who's the founder, the co-founder of HP, right? 2 times in the scene
Oprah In Her Own Words
- ▶ 36:39 David Senra Early in his career, when he would call up, like, David Packard, founder of HP, when he was, like, 14.
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 14:31 David Senra He was an engineer at Hewlett Packard and he was a ham radio operator.
- ▶ 22:13 David Senra Waz sold his HP calculator, which were very expensive things at the time, and I sold my VW bus. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46:42 David Senra Waz had a great job designing handheld calculators at Hewlett Packard, and I had a fun job designing games at Atari, and we were giving them up to start this company. 2 times in the scene
Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia)
- ▶ 20:31 David Senra I called up Bill Hewlett, the founder of HP, when I was 12 years old.
David Packard (Founder of HP)
- ▶ 0:24 David Senra If the answer to any of these questions is no, then Packard would deem HP a failure. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:37 David Senra He began by recalling that he had wanted to build a frequency counter when he was 12, and he was able to look up Bill Hewlett, the founder of HP, in the phone book and call him and get parts.
- ▶ 6:58 David Senra You'll see that he has HP is founded on the fact that they want to produce electronics.
- ▶ 9:08 David Senra I enjoyed athletics and learned some lessons that were helpful in managing Hewlett Packard. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:39 David Senra So then David goes back to this idea where that HP will likely not exist if him and Bill did not meet Professor Fred Terman. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:29 David Senra He's going to be a GE for a few years, but there's two main stories that he tells about his time working for General Electric that he's going to use later at HP. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:56 David Senra And he has the, what they consider the first official meeting of what's going to turn into HP.
- ▶ 21:17 David Senra HP was profitable from the very first year, and it was profitable every year for 50 years after that. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:12 David Senra And so one of the things I loved is David takes us to the history of the company is they grow, they need more space. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:18 David Senra That is their main focus in the early days of HP, measuring and testing electronic equipment.
- ▶ 30:35 David Senra It allowed qualified HP engineers to pursue advanced degrees at Stanford. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:56 David Senra And so eventually HP is going to go public, but what he says, he did not like that Wall Street had this, like, fixation on quarterly earnings.
- ▶ 35:49 David Senra And if the answer to that question is no, and people's lives are not being improved by our unique products, then he would consider HP a failure, even if it made a lot of money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:23 David Senra And so he does this fantastic, uh, description of like why that's so important because he talks about, uh, HP survive long enough. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:36 David Senra He persuaded his R&D manager to rush the monitor into production, and as it turned out, HP sold more than 17,000 display monitors, representing sales of thirty-five million dollars for the company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:49 David Senra So this is how the Japanese division of HP is going to teach David Packard and the rest of the company, the importance of working with people with excessively high standards. 6 times in the scene
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- ▶ 44:14 David Senra I called up Bill Hewlett, that's obviously one of the co-founders of HP, when I was 12. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 10:13 David Senra He's working at HP at the time, and he's like, hey, we, Steve Jobs, we can't make our own computer. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:44 David Senra Dave Packard, for example, left all his money to the foundation, obviously one of the co-founders of HP. 2 times in the scene