PalmPilot
2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 13, 2022 by Max Levchin · said 29 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2025 3 mentions in 1 episode
2022 21 mentions in 1 episode
2019 5 mentions in 1 episode
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Jun 13, 2022 negative
Levchin: Original PalmPilot lacked encryption and allowed open communication sniffing
“And then I looked at the security design of the Palm pilot and was sort of flabbergasted to know that there was no way to encrypt anything. You could communicate with other Palm pilots, but people could sniff the communication and just steal your secrets.”
Jun 13, 2022 positive
PayPal's makeshift web-to-web demo accidentally drove its explosive early growth
“And as a footnote, we had a Web to Web, very much a demo quality product that I threw together to just show how this works if you just don't happen to have any Palm Pilots around. And it's that demo that took off like crazy.”