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General Magic

Thank you very much for beinghere. What do you see as your--your startup date to actually...

Thank you very much for being
here. What do you see as your--
your startup date to actually have one of these
things in somebody's hand?

Full Transcript

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Thank you very much for being here. What do you see as your-- your startup date
00:00:05.075 --> 00:00:08.541
to actually have one of these things in somebody's hand?
Duration
9 seconds
Views
33
Timestamp in Movie
00:40:30
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
We'll be talking about dates and about product features - General Magic 00:09
We'll be talking about dates and about product features
- That's correct. -OK, OK. So-- - General Magic 00:06
- That's correct. -OK, OK. So--
...written record of it. Um, but what we have, we have sort of... - General Magic 00:05
...written record of it. Um, but what we have, we have sort ...
Moments where somebody has to start doing something and, uh, what we have decided is - General Magic 00:23
Moments where somebody has to start doing something and, uh,...
No questioning of Could I be wrong None - General Magic 00:19
No questioning of Could I be wrong None
And then there was this one day where I came to talk to all of them - General Magic 00:06
And then there was this one day where I came to talk to all ...
We don't want you, because we don't need a manager. Our leader, our leaders - General Magic 00:14
We don't want you, because we don't need a manager...
Managers are just going to get in the way. We don't need program managers, - General Magic 00:08
Managers are just going to get in the way. We don't nee...
There was a fearlessness and a sense of correctness, - General Magic 00:10
There was a fearlessness and a sense of correctness,
Because that's what you need to break out of earth's gravity, - General Magic 00:07
Because that's what you need to break out of earth'...
And that momentum comes from suppressing introspection - General Magic 00:07
And that momentum comes from suppressing introspection
The Alliance was the biggest and most complicated - General Magic 00:08
The Alliance was the biggest and most complicated
Sony and Panasonic hated each other, - General Magic 00:07
Sony and Panasonic hated each other,
We needed to become independent, - General Magic 00:07
We needed to become independent,
It was the first, so called, concept IPO, - General Magic 00:08
It was the first, so called, concept IPO,
What made that possible? The imprimatur of Goldman Sachs. - General Magic 00:05
What made that possible? The imprimatur of Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs was the gold standard for investment banking. - General Magic 00:06
Goldman Sachs was the gold standard for investment banking.
If Goldman was going to do your initial public offering, it meant that you too - General Magic 00:11
If Goldman was going to do your initial public offering, it ...
Didn't have a product, didn't have a revenue stream, - General Magic 00:06
Didn't have a product, didn't have a revenue strea...
One of them came and said, "I must have a piece of the IPO. - General Magic 00:07
One of them came and said, "I must have a piece of the ...