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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where IBM comes up
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,…