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David Rosenthal: belief

22 Apr 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume I

“I think IBM can do a deal with Intel, not necessarily trickier but the more important part is the software.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
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Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
22 Apr 2024
Publisher
Acquired

Transcript context

…Great. Okay. What do they do? The hardware aspect of this is trivial, basically. Ed Roberts could put together the hardware to sell a microcomputer and do this deal with Intel. I think IBM can do a deal with Intel, not necessarily trickier but the more important part is the software. Thanks to Bill's genius strategy about be the volume player, don't optimize on per unit price, set the standards out there. They were the world's leading provider of programming language interpreters, right?…

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