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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where IBM comes up
What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 18:44 unnamed speaker It was Steve putting on a magic show, and as a result of Canon investing, and Ross Perot investing, and IBM set up a deal, that automatically raised the valuation of Next and gave it credibility.
- ▶ 21:37 Shane Parrish The hardware division is what's sort of like killing it, but IBM wanted to license just their software, didn't they? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:57 unnamed speaker With a white button-down shirt, and a red tie, and at one point he even gave an interview, and he said, the future of our company is gonna be like IBM.
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 8:22 Mark Pincus Prodigy, this deal was to pay four hundred million for a third of Prodigy, which Sears and IBM owned, and I came back and I said, why don't we just buy this company AOL?
Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
- ▶ 46:38 Shane Parrish In 1981, IBM entered the personal computer market. 8 times in the scene
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 6:10 Benedict Evans I'm pretty sure people thought Microsoft had an advantage on the internet, and Google and, um, Meta had an advantage on mobile, and everyone thought IBM was going to win PCs. 3 times in the scene
Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
- ▶ 24:25 Shane Parrish It crystallized when she attended IBM's executive computer course as the only woman among
Andy Grove: Only The Paranoid Survive [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:00:39 Shane Parrish In the mainframe era, dominated by IBM, companies operated as fully integrated vertical stack, 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:21 Shane Parrish Sounds a lot like IBM in this story. 2 times in the scene
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 16:09 Shane Parrish This conviction paid off in 1965 when Teledyne won a major contract against much larger competitors like IBM and Texas Instruments.
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- ▶ 4:38 Shane Parrish It's the same reasoning that led to Western Union to dismiss the telephone, or IBM to scoff at personal computers, or Kodak to overlook the digital camera.
- ▶ 43:35 Shane Parrish IBM shrugged about the personal computer.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:47:29 Alfred Lin I think open source is a very, very important aspect of, um, what has happened in technology, and, you know, you have these religious fights between closed and open, and you have religious fights between Apple and Microsoft, you know, or,…
#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
- ▶ 45:01 Jeff Immelt It was me and Ken Chenault from American Express, Sam Palmisano, and then Jenny Romney from IBM, Steve Reimann, and then Indra Newey from Pepsi, and Bill Weldon, and then Alex Gorski from J&J.
#110 Jim Collins: Relationships vs. Transactions
- ▶ 43:53 Jim Collins And, you know, I understand that just because I want to be in business doesn't mean I have to work for Exxon or IBM or, you know, a hedge fund that's successful or whatever.
#97 Roger Martin: Forward Thinking
- ▶ 1:15:41 Roger Martin You don't get fired from buying IBM.
#95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical
- ▶ 3:42 Code Cubitt I graduated university in, in the late, uh, nineties, 96, I think, and, uh, immediately went to IBM. 3 times in the scene
#87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms
- ▶ 39:32 Hannah Fry You've got the IBM guy sitting in the seat, but I mean, he's not, he's not the one making the moves. 3 times in the scene
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 1:28:17 Jim Collins IBM is looking for an operating system. 3 times in the scene
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 41:33 Daniel Gross Although we, it would be interesting to paint that the contra and kind of interpretation of all of this, which is there are plenty of carcasses, you know, in the closets of capitalism of companies that got too big, too fat, suffered…
#48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
- ▶ 13:39 Adam Robinson So even now, the computer Watson, IBM's Watson, can come up with a medical diagnosis, the challenge of which is to explain the diagnosis to the doctor, because the doctor can't follow the reasoning of the, the neural net, and all the, the…
- ▶ 13:39 Adam Robinson So even now, the computer Watson, IBM's Watson, can come up with a medical diagnosis, the challenge of which is to explain the diagnosis to the doctor, because the doctor can't follow the reasoning of the, the neural net, and all the, the…
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 29:27 Tobi Lütke Startup, and it's like super no fun to work for, like a large company, like, like IBM or whatever.
#37 Annie Duke: Getting Better by Being Wrong
- ▶ 1:01:48 Annie Duke How could IBM possibly ever get crushed by Apple? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:48 Annie Duke so I, I think that it's actually, like, yes, in the short term, there's less downside, but it creates this really huge long-term downside, and what ends up happening is that either, you know, in the business world, you're all of a sudden…
- ▶ 1:07:13 Shane Parrish So talk to me about like the decision process an organization like IBM should use internally, um, to come to, um, the most probabilistic best solution to a problem, any given problem.
#27 Chris Voss: The Art of Letting Other People Have Your Way
- ▶ 33:58 Shane Parrish Do you think that relates to the old saying, like, you never get fired for hiring IBM? 3 times in the scene
#23 Ray Dalio: Life Lessons from a Self-Made Billionaire
Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- ▶ 58:00 Rory Sutherland No one ever got fired for buying IBM.
#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
- ▶ 27:19 Shane Parrish It seems like everybody's getting into artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence, machine learning from Facebook and IBM to Amazon and Google.
- ▶ 41:07 Pedro Domingos And for example, the way IBM Watson wanted Jeopardy was using this type of learning.
- ▶ 44:22 Shane Parrish I'm gonna switch gears a little bit, talk about IBM's Watson and chess, and then DeepGo.
- ▶ 44:22 Shane Parrish I'm gonna switch gears a little bit, talk about IBM's Watson and chess, and then DeepGo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:20 Pedro Domingos And this researcher at, at IBM called Arthur Samuel, who actually wrote the first machine learning system to learn to play a game.
#6 Philip Tetlock: How to See the Future
- ▶ 24:58 Shane Parrish So if you were an organization, you wanted to set up a team environment, like a forecasting team within a large company, say IBM, how would you go about doing that with your knowledge?