Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
7 Mar 2022 Acquired SONY
“I think Steve had this thing where he could have reverence for the history of a company in a way that made their current competition not matter, but the companies that he viewed having no taste and no history like going thermonuclear on Google or his relationship with Samsung, all bets were off.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 7 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SONY
Transcript context
…No, probably not. I think Steve had this thing where he could have reverence for the history of a company in a way that made their current competition not matter, but the companies that he viewed having no taste and no history like going thermonuclear on Google or his relationship with Samsung, all bets were off. Microsoft too. The first Walkman comes out in Japan in July of 1979. It sells through the 30,000 initial production run in one month, the next month, it doubles, the next month, it triples, and it continues tripling for month after month after that.…
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