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David Rosenthal: evaluation

7 Mar 2022 Acquired SONY

“The next thing they try is an electric heating blanket. That also doesn't work for various reasons.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
evaluation
Recorded
7 Mar 2022
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
SONY

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…Which is not a part of the founding prospectus. That's the best thing. It's like, we don't have an idea. We have a lot of engineers. We just want to have a place where engineers can be engineers. The first thing they try is an electric rice cooker, they can't get it to work. The next thing they try is an electric heating blanket. That also doesn't work for various reasons. Then finally, they got the brilliant ideas, it was obvious. If only they'd been listening to our episode here, we've been alluding to it all along, that they should just fix the damn radios that everybody has in Japan. It's like sure, it may be a services business, but if you can just open up for business, let people bring in their radios, and you can modify them to make them unclipped at the very least for the easy, low hanging fruit, that seems like a business.…

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