Ben Gilbert: belief

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…People want not the only news that people are desperate for at this moment in time, but they also want entertainment. As bad as things are, people want something to remind them of a better time and a better future. They start doing this and things go well enough that they actually get a little write-up in a national newspaper at the time about the service that they're offering and know-how high quality their work is. I doubled down on service there. I think eventually they do come out with products too that people can modify their radios by attaching this product and it turns into a shortwave antenna or something like that. Yes. Who reads this article? Akio Morita, who's back home in Nagoya. He reads it. He's like Ibuka, he's created a company. He's created this haven for engineers. I would kill to work with him again. He writes to Ibuka and says that he wants to come to Tokyo and "be of service to him and the company." What does he mean? Why does he say be of service? One, he sort of figured that money was tight then and that the new company might not have enough money to employ him. The bigger problem was, it's pretty unclear what the status of Morita's obligations are at this point in time. Remember, he signed a lifetime employment agreement with the Imperial Navy, which may or may not exist anymore? Probably not. It's unclear.…

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