BlackBerry

includes BlackBerry App World, BlackBerry Messenger

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 2, 2019 by Curt Richardson · said 58 times in 28 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Everything said about BlackBerry, oldest first

Dec 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OtterBox received its first $1M purchase order from AT&T for BlackBerries
“I remember getting our first million dollar PO from AT&T. For the BlackBerry.”
Curt Richardson Dec 2, 2019 ▶ 30:45 Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson
Aug 19, 2021 negative
Assertion Supported
Grant: BlackBerry made only one product when valued over $70B
“It is insane to me that when they were valued at over seventy billion dollars, they still only made one product. They just had a bunch of variations on the Blackberry, which is a great way to, you know, to persist into obsolescence.”
Adam Grant Aug 19, 2021 ▶ 17:32 Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
May 12, 2025
Insight
Best: Losing half a cross-platform messaging network destroys 95% of users
“And if you're a messaging app, and your big drive is your half on Blackberry and half on iPhone, if you lose half your users, you don't actually lose half your users, you lose like, 95% of your users.”
Chris Best May 12, 2025 ▶ 10:17 Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
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