IBM
includes IBM Personal Computer
6 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Apr 30, 2023 by Carilu Dietrich · said 25 times in 14 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Timothy Davis (4), April Dunford (4), Mike Maples, Jr. (2), Matt Dixon (2), Jason Lemkin (2), Eoghan McCabe (2), Ben Williams (2), Scott Belsky (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon
- What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
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2023 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- A step-by-step guide to crafting a sales pitch that wins | April Dunford (author of Sales Pitch)
- How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, Github)
- The 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product | Noah Weiss (Slack, Google)
- The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin
- Lessons on product sense, AI, the first mile experience, and the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe)
- How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian)
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Everything said about IBM, oldest first
Apr 30, 2023 positive
Jan 21, 2024 positive
Lou Gerstner's IBM turnaround leveraged its unmatched enterprise customer relationships
“When Gertzner took over IBM, as it was failing in the face of the microprocession revolution, He recognized that their primary asset, their source of power was that they were respected, and they had umptured into every large corporation on the planet. Nobody e…”
Mar 24, 2024 neutral
Rachitsky: Leading US tech and enterprise CEOs were born in India
“Today the CEOs of Microsoft, Alphabet, Adobe, which is a two hundred fifty billion dollar company, turns out, IBM, which is a hundred seventy billion dollar company, Palo Alto Networks, which is a hundred billion dollar company, even Starbucks, also a hundred …”
Jul 7, 2024 positive
Maples: Internal corporate breakthroughs require autonomous, insulated teams
“They had an organization totally separate from the main organization. Somebody with absolute power and try to make it not visible. Try to make it be separate because when you make it visible, you start to drift it back into the tractor beam of acting like a pa…”
May 24, 2026 negative
Shipper: If IBM Invented AI, It Would Be Extremely Expensive and Enterprise-Only
“If IBM had invented AI, you can bet it would not be like this. And it would be like a bajillion dollars, and only like the top companies could use it, and they would be using it in the weirdest, most uninteresting ways.”
May 31, 2026
Evans: 1950s IBM ad pitched refrigerator-sized calculator as 150 engineers
“The ad is, the slogan of the title of the ad is, it's an IBM ad. It says an IBM electronic calculator. This is before it was called a computer. It's an electronic calculator. It's the size of a fridge. It's like having a 150 extra engineers.”