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Published · transcript-backedTrip Hawkins: evaluation
27 May 2019 Acquired The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)
“The Apple 2 turned out to be a huge business, and it lasted much longer than anyone else thought which is the good things that kept Apple alive because then Steve and I went out to scheme out the next generation.”
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- Speaker
- Trip Hawkins
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- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 27 May 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Was it VisiCalc? Yeah, VisiCalc. I brought the first spreadsheet into Apple. That product line hung around for like 10 years. The Apple 2 turned out to be a huge business, and it lasted much longer than anyone else thought which is the good things that kept Apple alive because then Steve and I went out to scheme out the next generation. Honestly, we were way overly optimistic about how quickly that would be relevant. Ultimately, there was obviously a lot of failure there, we had the right ideas, but the market was going to need time to develop. This is primarily the Lisa?…
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