01 / belief
Look, I had put the playbook together, so the Sega version had I think 135 plays, Montana had 13.
“Look, I had put the playbook together, so the Sega version had I think 135 plays, Montana had 13.”
- Speaker
- Trip Hawkins
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- Acquired
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01 / belief
“Look, I had put the playbook together, so the Sega version had I think 135 plays, Montana had 13.”
02 / prediction
“I didn't realize at that moment—and this is like 1984—this 16-bit technology, it's already coming, it turns out it was going to be a while, and in 8-bit, it wasn't really quite good enough now. We thought, "Okay, this will take a year.”
03 / belief
“In fact, there’s a lot of big tech companies like Oracle, I think maybe 20% of their employees have stock options.”
04 / belief
“Again, I think, what Jim Simmons did in building that first version was among the most amazing work I’ve seen done in my career.”
05 / belief
“I think after those two rounds that EA did it, they probably owned close to half.”
06 / commitment
““...and you better have some conviction about what you’re doing because I’m investing in you.”
07 / evaluation
“Anyway, it is very interesting because then you have a decade after he gets booted out where Apple keeps losing share, and it was Steve's fault, actually because he wanted it Microsoft apps for the Mac.”
08 / evaluation
“The Apple 2 turned out to be a huge business, and it lasted much longer than anyone else thought which is the good things that kept Apple alive because then Steve and I went out to scheme out the next generation.”
09 / evaluation
“Because they were running an ad campaign in the Hobby Magazine saying that Apple was the world’s best-selling personal computer, and it wasn’t the truth.”
10 / uncertainty
“I have no idea what's going to happen 40 years from now. I don't know about you.”
11 / evaluation
“With these three IPOs when I was around, Apple went at the time it was perfectly appropriate for Apple to do it. It was a mix blessing because it clearly changed the culture of the company in a negative way, but it really did help put the company on the map, and give it plenty of resources.”
12 / recommendation
“I think if you’re going to take something public, you’ve got to have a really concrete idea of what operating business model you have, and then you’re going to be able to continue to systematically move forward and fairly steadily improve upon.”
13 / prediction
“You know, nobody’s talking about it and then, we just started cranking out better quarterly results, astronomically better quarterly results for the next several quarters then it took, I don’t know, another year or two and the company was worth $2 billion.”
14 / preference
“I was already a really big fan of the Motorola MC68000 processor because Steve and I had picked it for Apple's next-gen machines.”
15 / evaluation
“Well, I think one of the things I had learned from some of the courses I had taken in business school, that you probably don't want to start a company.”