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I was a little skeptical at first, because Marc is such a slick salesperson
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General Magic

I was a little skepticalat first, because Marcis such a slick salesperson, but I saw that,...

I was a little skeptical
at first, because Marc
is such a slick salesperson, but I saw that, hey,
this is pretty cool

Full Transcript

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I was a little skeptical at first, because Marc is such a slick salesperson,
00:00:05.075 --> 00:00:08.251
but I saw that, hey, this is pretty cool.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
40
Timestamp in Movie
00:12:38
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
And when I saw this, the concept and I talked to Marc, - General Magic 00:06
And when I saw this, the concept and I talked to Marc,
The same feeling that I had when I first encountered the Macintosh. - General Magic 00:05
The same feeling that I had when I first encountered the Mac...
This book was not just ideas, - General Magic 00:15
This book was not just ideas,
Marc said, "We are gonna create what comes after the personal computer." - General Magic 00:12
Marc said, "We are gonna create what comes after the pe...
I think it's got to be a separate company." - General Magic 00:07
I think it's got to be a separate company."
This was the beginning of what became, I think, the most important company - General Magic 00:08
This was the beginning of what became, I think, the most imp...
You know it had Apple's fairy dust sprinkled on it. - General Magic 00:05
You know it had Apple's fairy dust sprinkled on it.
So we had no idea what it was, - General Magic 00:06
So we had no idea what it was,
There's this company, it has Andy and Bill and, - General Magic 00:06
There's this company, it has Andy and Bill and,
And I was like, "I don't know what they are doing yet, but I know I need to be there." - General Magic 00:12
And I was like, "I don't know what they are doing ...
I knocked on the door, no one answered, so I opened the door - General Magic 00:22
I knocked on the door, no one answered, so I opened the door
Everybody in the valley knew that Magic was-- was doing something really cool, - General Magic 00:08
Everybody in the valley knew that Magic was-- was doing some...
Everybody wanted to be there and people literally would sleep on the doorstep - General Magic 00:07
Everybody wanted to be there and people literally would slee...
No, no it's not everywhere in the valley! - General Magic 00:04
No, no it's not everywhere in the valley!
The best, the brightest the coolest, the smartest. - General Magic 00:05
The best, the brightest the coolest, the smartest.
Oh, smile! You are on "Candid Camera." - General Magic 00:05
Oh, smile! You are on "Candid Camera."
I come from a long line of engineers. And so the idea of going to Silicon Valley - General Magic 00:15
I come from a long line of engineers. And so the idea of goi...
Andy Hertzfeld had gotten my name as a Mac developer, and so he called me. - General Magic 00:07
Andy Hertzfeld had gotten my name as a Mac developer, and so...
I'm sorry to offend you with this Non Disclosure Agreement... - General Magic 00:04
I'm sorry to offend you with this Non Disclosure Agreem...
But he couldn't tell me what it was, and I was just thinking, - General Magic 00:48
But he couldn't tell me what it was, and I was just thi...