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David Rosenthal: evaluation

23 Oct 2016 Acquired NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)

“Yup. And I think that is what is so scarce in technology, in startups, and in business like the ability to take a potentiality whether it's technology or something else and turn that into a product that just works and that people want, it’s so scarce.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
evaluation
Recorded
23 Oct 2016
Publisher
Acquired

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…Right. You want to get those things into product and kind of reorganize and said, “Look, everybody who is doing that pioneering research, you need to be doing it with the lens of how are we going to build this into this product and how does fit into the story of this product that we’re trying to ship?” Yup. And I think that is what is so scarce in technology, in startups, and in business like the ability to take a potentiality whether it's technology or something else and turn that into a product that just works and that people want, it’s so scarce. I think that’s what for all of Steve’s foibles and all of his craziness, he was just so good at that and it's impressive. Okay. Should we wrap this one up? You want to grade it?…

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