BlackBerry, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where BlackBerry comes up
e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant
- ▶ 45:26 Joey Shamah And I remember I was on my Blackberry in the elevator, and he tells me, this is it.
Advice Line with Christina Tosi of Milk Bar
- ▶ 43:20 Christina Tosi I just remember my Blackberry kept buzzing and buzzing, and I was like, what is going, like, did the bakery catch fire?
Advice Line with Jon Stein of Betterment
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
- ▶ 5:25 Chris Best We were building, you know, the original thing we started working on was a music player for the Blackberry. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:14 Chris Best Um, but then the people at BlackBerry noticed the traffic, a substantial fraction of all pushes going to BlackBerry's were just messages for our service. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:00 Chris Best But more importantly than that, even they kicked us out of the BlackBerry app store.
- ▶ 11:53 Chris Best You know, after we sort of had this, this BlackBerry thing, we had this messenger that was growing, and we, but we never really figured out what's the business model for this thing.
Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
- ▶ 47:38 James Hirschfeld And they, you know, what we really needed them to be doing was focusing on kind of making our product amazing on these iPhones, which were becoming more and more pervasive, you know, and replacing blackberries.
AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane
- ▶ 4:30 Bethany Bongiorno Yeah, I joined Apple in 2008, and I, you know, I was a Blackberry user.
Sonos: John MacFarlane
Yasso: Amanda Klane and Drew Harrington
- ▶ 28:11 Drew Harrington And I went back to my office, I Blackberry messengered Amanda, and I said, hey, what do you think of Yasu?
When our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of Light
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
- ▶ 35:23 Joel Simkhai They had developers for, you know, iOS eventually, Android and Blackberry, uh, and also the backend.
HIBT Lab! MKBHD: Marques Brownlee
- ▶ 5:46 Marques Brownlee It basically brings up all the things, like the Blackberry menu you might have been familiar with, brings up all the options you can do with that particular piece of media.
ButcherBox: Mike Salguero
- ▶ 22:00 Mike Salguero Meanwhile, the, the economy is collapsing, and Seth and I are running around Boston with, uh, a logo on a BlackBerry, uh, trying to raise money for this idea of, uh, a woodworker listing service.
PODS & Red Rover: Pete Warhurst
- ▶ 8:39 Pete Warhurst At that time, we didn't have pagers or blackberries or anything like that, and, uh,
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
- ▶ 27:18 Mitchell Gold Blackberries and before the days of cell phones.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
Robert Reffkin: Compass
- ▶ 1:02:22 Robert Reffkin Yeah, when I moved from my Blackberry to my iPhone, yes, I got, like, 300 dollars off the first phone, but that's not why I moved.
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
- ▶ 19:44 Jamie Siminoff So, so it's, you know, the Blackberry is out, people are, you know, clicking and stuff, and... 3 times in the scene
S'well: Sarah Kauss
- ▶ 16:33 Sarah Kauss I literally had to get outside of my own life, you know, in a place that required you to put your Blackberry at the time away and not be so focused on, you know, the next ping that you're going to get on your email because I wasn't really…
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
- ▶ 1:04:50 Casey Neistat And I took a picture of the computer screen in the internet cafe on my Blackberry, and I sent that picture to Mary Beth, and I said, get us here.
Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson
- ▶ 29:58 Curt Richardson Or even, I mean, I can remember a Blackberry skiing with a Blackberry and sweating on it and it croaked, you know, so it didn't take much to kill a Blackberry or any of those phones back in the day. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:40 Guy Raz So, it's the mid-two thousands, and OtterBox is still a young brand, making bulky, waterproof cases for devices like PalmPilots and BlackBerrys. 5 times in the scene
Evite: Selina Tobaccowala
- ▶ 49:11 Selina Tobaccowala And, um, and I land, and I check my Blackberry, and there's an offer from Dave in my inbox.
Live Episode! Milk Bar: Christina Tosi
- ▶ 0:03 Christina Tosi I just remember my Blackberry kept buzzing and buzzing, and I was like, what is going, like, did the bakery catch fire?
- ▶ 49:06 Christina Tosi Um, but I had gotten home a few hours before, and, uh, at that time, my Blackberry was the customer service, like, dial-up hotline, and I just remember my Blackberry kept buzzing and buzzing and buzzing and buzzing, and I was like, what is… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:22 Christina Tosi When that blackberry starts buzzing, you better get your hiney out of bed and get to it.
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie (2019)
- ▶ 38:54 Blake Mycoskie And I held up my Blackberry at the time, which I had, and I said, this is the key.
Betterment: Jon Stein
- ▶ 0:50 Jon Stein And I had a Blackberry at the time, and the Blackberry timestamps when you leave these notes.
- ▶ 28:36 Jon Stein I had a BlackBerry at the time, and I was still, like, typing, like, ideas all night, and I woke up in the morning, and the BlackBerry timestamps when you leave these notes 2 times in the scene
Drybar: Alli Webb (2017)
Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie
- ▶ 38:23 Blake Mycoskie And I held up my Blackberry at the time, which I had, and I said, this is the key.