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General Magic

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Duration
6 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:40:46
Uploaded
Jun 18, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Spellbound Productions II

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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
...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 ...
What would it take, what-- if I gave you the shirt off my back, would that do it? - General Magic 00:05
What would it take, what-- if I gave you the shirt off my ba...
And I said, "Yeah. It would!" And he stripped down... - General Magic 00:05
And I said, "Yeah. It would!" And he stripped down...