Texas Instruments, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Guy Raz 9Rod Canion 2Michael Dell 2Don Katz 1David Baszucki 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Texas Instruments comes up
Roblox: David Baszucki
- ▶ 6:21 David Baszucki In the early eighties, this is when the early Fairchild and Texas instruments and all of these Intel type companies were just getting going.
Audible: Don Katz
Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018)
- ▶ 2:45 Guy Raz Michael grew up in Houston in the 19 seventies, and this was just as digital technology was taking off in that city with companies like Texas Instruments and then later Compaq.
- ▶ 12:27 Michael Dell Had just left Texas Instruments to go start this new computer company.
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion (2019)
- ▶ 0:00 Guy Raz So back in the 19 eighties, Rod Canyon left Texas Instruments with one vision to create a better portable computer.
- ▶ 2:18 Guy Raz In fact, he had a good and stable job at Texas Instruments as an electrical engineer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:07 Rod Canion And the fact that we took off and set sales records, I mean, everybody else did it, including, by the way, the big guys, HP, TI, DEC, all finally followed suit, but by then we had really established ourselves in the market, and you know,…
- ▶ 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…
Dell Computers: Michael Dell
- ▶ 2:27 Guy Raz Michael grew up in Houston in the 19 seventies, and this was just as digital technology was taking off in that city with companies like Texas Instruments and then later Compaq.
- ▶ 12:15 Michael Dell Had just left Texas Instruments to go start this new computer company.
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
- ▶ 1:56 Guy Raz In fact, he had a good and stable job at Texas Instruments as an electrical engineer.
- ▶ 2:21 Guy Raz So at that moment, Rod started to talk to two close colleagues at Texas Instruments, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, and he basically said, hey, maybe we should leave.
- ▶ 20:44 Rod Canion And the fact that we took off and set sales records, I mean, everybody else did it, including, by the way, the big guys, HP, TI, DEC, all finally followed suit.
- ▶ 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…