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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.”
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…”
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.”
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 …”
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…”