IBM, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where IBM comes up
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 59:02 David Senra Where would Microsoft be if IBM insisted on an exclusive license for DOS? 2 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Vannevar Bush
- ▶ 15:46 David Senra Some of them make the same sort of stir as Xerox or Polaroid or IBM, all of which are making products that were unheard of when I was young.
The Biography of John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
- ▶ 52:07 David Senra And he realizes this because IBM tries to 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 26:53 David Senra He even calls Apple a world leader, an absolutely unprovable claim that rockets the little company into the same league as IBM, which was then the industry's giant.
- ▶ 29:08 David Senra This is what Bill Gates saw that Steve Jobs missed, and it's the impact that a major company like IBM is going to have when it ships its first personal computer, and because of the immense success, they go from zero computers sold to a…
- ▶ 33:39 David Senra So they're having this conversation, and, you know, IBM's, this is 1981, IBM's shipping his first computer, and Steve's like, this is irrelevant, no one's gonna choose that ugly piece of thing over this, like, piece of art, this master,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:10 David Senra He is trying to do a negotiation with a giant company, IBM. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:40 David Senra Remember, he was complicating a deal that he desperately needed done, uh, with Next and IBM.
- ▶ 1:16:38 David Senra So I mentioned earlier, huge theme of the book is the evolution of Steve compared, you know, him making, needing that deal with IBM when he's at next, messing it up terribly.