IBM, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 128Rod Canion 41Michael Dell 23Leah Solivan 11Jim McKelvey 7Sandy Lerner 6William Wang 5Craig Newmark 5Tariq Farid 3Steve Case 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where IBM comes up
Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
- ▶ 11:55 Jim McKelvey And then, uh, through luck, I actually got a job at IBM. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:25 Guy Raz You've been doing glassblowing work, and IBM wasn't that interesting to you, and I guess you started to think about starting your own company, which would become a company called Mira. 4 times in the scene
Craigslist: Craig Newmark — The Forrest Gump of the Internet
- ▶ 12:35 Guy Raz You graduate, um, from Case Western, and like a good computer science graduate, a responsible young man in the mid-seventies, you go and work for one of the biggest companies in the world, IBM. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:58 Craig Newmark Well, uh, in IBM Boca Raton, which was not very fancy at that point, I went to work on a forgotten minicomputer called the Series One. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:24 Craig Newmark The only thing I did which I thought was, was really good was I was a core member of a team building a series one as a card that would fit inside of a PC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:02 Craig Newmark Well, 17 years at IBM, Boca Raton, Detroit, a year in Pittsburgh, but I got tired at the East Coast, ah, so I wanted a change.
Vizio: William Wang
- ▶ 2:10 Guy Raz Even though big players like IBM dominated the category, William managed to undercut their price and build a pretty significant business.
- ▶ 9:09 William Wang The spec on the monitor was fully controlled by IBM. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:50 Guy Raz So if, you know, there was one standard, which was the, the IBM specs, and you could improve on it, you could stand out, I guess, right?
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 8:53 Rod Cuthbert IBM and, uh, and Apple had released their machines, and, you know, the market was abuzz with this new thing, PCs. 2 times in the scene
Mythical: Rhett and Link
Etsy: Rob Kalin
Beautyblender: Rea Ann Silva
- ▶ 56:39 Rea Ann Silva Xerox needed IBM.
Alienware: Frank Azor and Nelson Gonzalez
- ▶ 2:17 Guy Raz Features that weren't standard in the PCs sold by IBM or HP or Compaq.
- ▶ 25:46 Guy Raz No, none of these big PC companies, IBM and Dell and HP and Compaq were making gaming.
- ▶ 46:29 Guy Raz They, I mean, I mean, this is when IBM was thinking about and then eventually did sold off its computer, uh, division, stopped making computers, sold it to Lenovo.
HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
- ▶ 1:43 Guy Raz Instead, Leah, who at the time was an engineer at IBM, saw the problem as more of an engineering challenge.
- ▶ 5:44 Guy Raz Alright, so, 2001, I believe, you graduate from Sweetbriar with a degree in computer science, and I think you get a job as an engineer at a small software startup, which I guess eventually gets merged into IBM, and what are you doing for… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:26 Leah Solivan He actually also worked at Iris Associates, which was bought by Lotus, and then Lotus was bought by IBM, and so we worked together there for many years, and then 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:33 Leah Solivan I was working out of the Cambridge office for IBM, and I did start to think, you know what, I have the skill set.
- ▶ 18:32 Guy Raz From what I understand, you're working at IBM, and you're still employed there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:54 Guy Raz So, it's 2008, and Leah is still working full time at IBM.
- ▶ 28:25 Leah Solivan And so I finally decided to make the leap and, and quit IBM. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:33 Leah Solivan I had this stable job at IBM and the world feels like it's falling apart.
- ▶ 33:59 Guy Raz Corporations like IBM, I think even approach IBM to see if they would adopt your service, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:18 Guy Raz I think this is somebody you knew from IBM, uh, Brian Leonard.
The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
- ▶ 9:02 Jimmy Fallon But IBM was really the only thing happening in our little town, and so that was kind of a lot of people's goals, to work at IBM.
Houzz: Adi Tatarko
- ▶ 11:06 Adi Tatarko He already had, um, IBM and other big tech companies asking him to develop systems.
Florentine Films: Ken Burns
Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
- ▶ 11:45 Guy Raz But actually after you graduated, um, this is in the late eighties, you ended up, um, getting a job, a sales job, uh, for, I guess, a subsidiary of, of IBM or a company that worked for IBM. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:33 Guy Raz Eventually, you decided to leave IBM and, um,
- ▶ 14:45 Kat Nouri Actually, when I left IBM, I did get married, right around, right around that time, I would say, where I was sort of exploring different avenues.
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018)
- ▶ 14:24 Sandy Lerner Well, it used to be that you either bought DEC computers, you bought IBM, or you bought HP, or you bought Data General, or you bought Wang, or you bought whatever. 3 times in the scene
Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
- ▶ 5:56 Jeff Martin So they, they actually met working at IBM, um, both in the sales department and they bonded over being kind of able to lean on each other, uh, and kind of not other people.
Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
- ▶ 15:24 Scott Farquhar IBM, then PwC, then ASX, the Australian Stock Exchange. 3 times in the scene
Calendly: Tope Awotona
Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018)
- ▶ 10:02 Michael Dell IBM introduced the IBM PC, and that was sort of a very important moment because if you dial back the clock to the late seventies and early eighties, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:02 Michael Dell IBM introduced the IBM PC, and that was sort of a very important moment because if you dial back the clock to the late seventies and early eighties, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:41 Michael Dell So back then, the original IBM personal computers had no hard disk drives. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:47 Michael Dell So what I would do is I would buy a couple of these disk drives and buy a controller card and write some software and make some cables and make a hard disk drive system that you would put inside an IBM computer.
- ▶ 23:21 Guy Raz That they started to compete with the biggest name in computing, IBM. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:46 Michael Dell I remember, I remember there was a thought at the time that, oh, wow, IBM's gonna take back this whole idea of the personal computer, and it won't be an open ecosystem anymore, and, you know, we could all, you know, poof, be out of…
- ▶ 33:28 Guy Raz And by getting that money, were you able to say, okay, now we're gonna beat IBM. 3 times in the scene
Belkin International: Chet Pipkin
- ▶ 21:17 Chet Pipkin It was one of our bigger, biggest orders ever for cables that went from the parallel port from an IBM PC to a, to an Epson printer, and they bought a hundred of these things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:34 Guy Raz So why wouldn't a computer company like IBM or Apple at the time have just made their own 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:17 Chet Pipkin It was a parallel printer cable to go from the IBM PC to a parallel printer, and, um, I asked him what it would cost to buy, and the price he quoted was less expensive than what it cost us to build that same item ourselves.
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion (2019)
- ▶ 0:09 Guy Raz He had no idea his 28 pound invention would not only compete, but also beat out computing giant IBM. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:56 Guy Raz Well, you needed software written for an IBM. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:53 Rod Canion And I knew that the IBM PC was relatively unprotected.
- ▶ 8:12 Guy Raz And, and presumably they basically had to build something pretty similar to, to an IBM PC.
- ▶ 11:04 Guy Raz And, and, and of course, your portable would run any software, uh, written for the, for the IBM, and, and none of the competition did that, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:09 Rod Canion What we just stumbled onto is this pent-up demand for a portable version of the IBM PC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:55 Guy Raz Weren't, weren't you worried in 1982 when you were going to dealers and showing them your product that and saying, hey, you know, this is basically, this can do everything an IBM can do except it's portable. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:01 Guy Raz And that same year, IBM, they sold 750,000 computers. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:37 Rod Canion You know, this idea that, uh, people could use all the same peripherals, all the same things that were designed and built to run in an IBM PC, whether it was software or hardware, would work on our computer. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:37 Rod Canion You know, this idea that, uh, people could use all the same peripherals, all the same things that were designed and built to run in an IBM PC, whether it was software or hardware, would work on our computer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:45 Guy Raz Didn't IBM try to, like, kill off all the clones when, when they released the, the PS-II two in, in in, in, in, 1987, which was this computer that was designed so it could not be cloned, right? 19 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:15 Guy Raz So in 1987, you're going through a divorce, and I mean, even a simple divorce is hard, and then IBM comes out with this new computer designed to, to basically put you, you guys out of business.
- ▶ 30:56 Guy Raz You think about Compaq, it was such a powerhouse in the eighties, a fortune 500 company, does a billion dollars in revenue within five years, and then you think about all of the companies that, that it was associated with, or that it… 2 times in the scene
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner
- ▶ 14:15 Sandy Lerner Well, it used to be that you either bought DEC computers, you bought IBM, or you bought HP, or you bought Data General, or you bought Wang, or you bought whatever. 3 times in the scene
Dell Computers: Michael Dell
- ▶ 9:40 Michael Dell So, you know, when you would take apart the, you know, and something happened here around, uh, 1981, IBM introduced the IBM PC, and that was sort of a very important moment because if you dial back the clock to the late seventies and early… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:40 Michael Dell So, you know, when you would take apart the, you know, and something happened here around, uh, 1981, IBM introduced the IBM PC, and that was sort of a very important moment because if you dial back the clock to the late seventies and early… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:32 Michael Dell So back then, the original IBM personal computers 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:18 Guy Raz They started to compete with the biggest name in computing, IBM. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:45 Michael Dell I remember there was a thought at the time that, oh, wow, IBM's gonna take back this whole idea of the personal computer, and it won't be an open ecosystem anymore, and, you know,
- ▶ 33:27 Guy Raz And, and by getting that money, were you able to say, okay, now we're going to beat IBM. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:40 Guy Raz You become number one, more than Compaq, more than IBM.
Kate Spade: Kate & Andy Spade (2017)
- ▶ 5:50 Andy Spade Cars and IBM.
Tom's Of Maine: Tom Chappell
- ▶ 8:20 Tom Chappell We became good friends, and I told him of my idea, and, ah, he had some IBM stock and took it to the bank as collateral to loan me 5000 dollars.
Live Episode! Starbucks: Howard Schultz
- ▶ 10:16 Howard Schultz Xerox and IBM at that point in the mid-seventies were two kind of pedigree companies that if you told somebody you're working for Xerox, people felt kind of good about you, until I told my mother I was leaving Xerox.
Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid
- ▶ 15:42 Tariq Farid And this was a single IBM PC you would buy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:42 Tariq Farid And this was a single IBM PC you would buy.
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
- ▶ 0:03 Rod Canion Well, it's assumed that if IBM enters the market, they take over and push everybody out. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30 Guy Raz If your computer was, say, an IBM, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:56 Rod Canion When IBM entered the market in August of 1981, we realized that that market was going to explode.
- ▶ 5:30 Rod Canion And I knew that the IBM PC 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:49 Guy Raz And, and presumably they basically had to build something pretty similar to, to an IBM PC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:41 Guy Raz And, and, and of course, your portable would run any software, uh, written for the, for the IBM, and, and none of the competition did that, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:46 Rod Canion What we just stumbled onto is this pent-up demand for a portable version of the IBM PC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:32 Guy Raz Weren't, weren't you worried in 1982 when you were going to dealers and showing them your product that and saying, hey, you know, this is basically, this can do everything an IBM can do except it's portable. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:14 Guy Raz I am assuming that at this point, IBM is starting to notice. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:38 Guy Raz And that same year, IBM, they sold 750,000 computers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:27 Rod Canion Well, what happened is IBM introduces the product. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:14 Rod Canion You know, this idea that, uh, people could use all the same peripherals, all the same things that were designed and built to run in an IBM PC, whether it was software or hardware, would work on our computer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:24 Rod Canion Uh, IBM maybe underestimated us. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:22 Guy Raz Didn't IBM try to, like, kill off all the clones when, when they released the, the PS-II two in, in in, in, in, in, 1987, which was this computer that was designed so it could not be cloned, right? 19 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:22 Guy Raz Didn't IBM try to, like, kill off all the clones when, when they released the, the PS-II two in, in in, in, in, in, 1987, which was this computer that was designed so it could not be cloned, right? 19 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:59 Guy Raz And then IBM comes out with this new computer designed to basically put you, you guys out of business.
- ▶ 30:34 Guy Raz You think about Compaq, it was such a powerhouse in the eighties, a fortune 500 company, does a billion dollars in revenue within five years, and then you think about all of the companies that, that it was associated with, or that it…
- ▶ 33:41 Guy Raz By the way, the story of Compaq's David and Goliath's struggle against IBM was the subject of a very cool documentary.
Real Estate Mogul: Barbara Corcoran
- ▶ 27:40 Barbara Corcoran That seemed to me like IBM itself.
AOL: Steve Case
- ▶ 5:59 Steve Case There was one in particular called Prodigy that IBM and Sears and for a while, CBS, committed about a billion dollars to launch Prodigy.
- ▶ 8:20 Steve Case So our deals with all these companies would be Commodore or Apple or IBM was we'll create the service and you market it. 2 times in the scene
Kate Spade: Kate & Andy Spade
- ▶ 5:50 Andy Spade Cars and IBM.