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A peak experience, positive or negative happens, it's not easy to resolve
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A peak experience, positiveor negative happens,it's not easy to resolve

A peak experience, positive
or negative happens,
it's not easy to resolve

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A peak experience, positive or negative happens, it's not easy to resolve.
Duration
6 seconds
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29
Timestamp in Movie
01:13:06
Uploaded
Jun 18, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Spellbound Productions II

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The ideas that dominate the tech industry and our day to day lives were born at a secretive Silicon Valley start-up named 'General Magic', which spun out of Apple in 1990 to create the first handheld personal communicator (or "smartp
In the moment we all do the best we can do in the moment, at that moment. - General Magic 00:08
In the moment we all do the best we can do in the moment, at...
I felt, a profound feeling of humiliation. - General Magic 00:05
I felt, a profound feeling of humiliation.
Shame that I had brought everyone along with such high anticipation - General Magic 00:11
Shame that I had brought everyone along with such high antic...
So I remember coming home one evening, so the kids were still up. - General Magic 00:08
So I remember coming home one evening, so the kids were stil...
"Daddy." And daddy had given it all to perfect strangers. - General Magic 00:07
"Daddy." And daddy had given it all to perfect str...
And my wife said, "Don't come home like this." - General Magic 00:11
And my wife said, "Don't come home like this."...
"If you need to sit in your car, for hours - General Magic 00:08
"If you need to sit in your car, for hours
Don't walk in the door if you're not a person, if you're not present, - General Magic 00:08
Don't walk in the door if you're not a person, if ...
And you know in-- in-- it collapsed, - General Magic 00:14
And you know in-- in-- it collapsed,
Life is ebbs and flows, when a wave crashes on the shores - General Magic 00:09
Life is ebbs and flows, when a wave crashes on the shores
You think of the wave as having done its thing and the next wave will come and the next wave, - General Magic 00:10
You think of the wave as having done its thing and the next ...
It always amazed me, because I haven't seen Marc in many, many years, - General Magic 00:10
It always amazed me, because I haven't seen Marc in man...
Because here is an individual who was so good, - General Magic 00:07
Because here is an individual who was so good,
Brought together perhaps the best team - General Magic 00:14
Brought together perhaps the best team
It was a decade of failure in Silicon Valley for me. - General Magic 00:06
It was a decade of failure in Silicon Valley for me.
General Magic was a disaster, Phillips was a critical success, but a business disaster. - General Magic 00:07
General Magic was a disaster, Phillips was a critical succes...
Then I had my start up and then, you know, during the start up times the Internet crunch - General Magic 00:09
Then I had my start up and then, you know, during the start ...
So it was a disaster after disaster from a business perspective. - General Magic 00:05
So it was a disaster after disaster from a business perspect...
But from a personal perspective it caused me to grow up each time, - General Magic 00:15
But from a personal perspective it caused me to grow up each...
Because I had to go through that to be able to set my-- to set the stage up - General Magic 00:07
Because I had to go through that to be able to set my-- to s...