But he couldn't tell me what itwas, and I was just thinking, "Oh my god I am talking...
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But he couldn't tell me what it
was, and I was just thinking, "Oh my god I am talking to
Andy Hertzfeld right now." My parents are looking at
me going, "I don't know anything about this General Magic.
Why don't you go to
a company you know, like IBM or Microsoft, can't you go
there, where it's well known?" I'm like, "No, I wanna go
work for General Magic." He would call me ten, fifteen
times a day just begging, "Please get my resume"
and he would just ask me, "Please, I will not stop
until I work there." And so I go into
the interview, first thing in, people sat me down on the floor,
ripped my tie off, ripped off
my jacket and said, "That's not how we work here."
So I go home back to Michigan,
packed up all my things, and put them in a car
and then I'm like,
I got to hear something
was, and I was just thinking, "Oh my god I am talking to
Andy Hertzfeld right now." My parents are looking at
me going, "I don't know anything about this General Magic.
Why don't you go to
a company you know, like IBM or Microsoft, can't you go
there, where it's well known?" I'm like, "No, I wanna go
work for General Magic." He would call me ten, fifteen
times a day just begging, "Please get my resume"
and he would just ask me, "Please, I will not stop
until I work there." And so I go into
the interview, first thing in, people sat me down on the floor,
ripped my tie off, ripped off
my jacket and said, "That's not how we work here."
So I go home back to Michigan,
packed up all my things, and put them in a car
and then I'm like,
I got to hear something
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But he couldn't tell me what it
was, and I was just thinking,
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"Oh my god I am talking to
Andy Hertzfeld right now."
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My parents are looking at
me going, "I don't know anything
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about this General Magic.
Why don't you go to
a company you know, like
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IBM or Microsoft, can't you go
there, where it's well known?"
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I'm like, "No, I wanna go
work for General Magic."
00:00:22.833 --> 00:00:26.075
He would call me ten, fifteen
times a day just begging,
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"Please get my resume"
and he would just ask me,
00:00:30.125 --> 00:00:32.075
"Please, I will not stop
until I work there."
00:00:32.075 --> 00:00:35.167
And so I go into
the interview, first thing in,
00:00:35.167 --> 00:00:40.375
people sat me down on the floor,
ripped my tie off, ripped off
my jacket and said,
00:00:40.375 --> 00:00:44.833
"That's not how we work here."
So I go home back to Michigan,
packed up all my things,
00:00:44.833 --> 00:00:47.005
and put them in a car
and then I'm like,
I got to hear something.
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Movie Summary
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
