Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
23 Oct 2016 Acquired NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)
“I think there must have been a little bit of Steve Jobs reality distortion field there too, like how they could have gone public, I mean they eventually became profitable as a software-only business but they were not making a lot of money.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 23 Oct 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Yeah. So this company that finally had actually has a product out there, this operating system that is not the business that they were hoping to build but is a decent business, is planning to IPO later in the year and we don’t know if that actually would have happened, but it is interesting that that’s an alternate future. I think there must have been a little bit of Steve Jobs reality distortion field there too, like how they could have gone public, I mean they eventually became profitable as a software-only business but they were not making a lot of money. No.…
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