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“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.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“Jean-Louise wanted $300 million for the company, Apple I think was willing to shell out $120 to $125 million, somewhere in there.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I know. And I wish we have nothing higher to give than an A+, but this is by far the best acquisition we’ve ever looked at and I think probably ever will look at.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“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.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“” Then Steve comes on stage for just a few minutes to say like, “Hey, here’s where I think we’re going,” and it’s just captivating.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“We just don’t believe you.” And so I think that when you look at– This was before it was dubbed iOS, okay, it was a variant of OS 10.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“Every time I read, and this is just like going and doing a lot of this primary source research, and this is going to be my tech theme later, but I am just so struck by his level of thinking.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I mean, you can’t script this stuff. They’ve literally made three movies about it because of how kind of crazy this journey is.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“It’s just software. That was kind of in vogue during that time because that’s when the Mac was in the era of the clones.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I mean, you can chalk it up to organizational politics or you can chalk it up to the technology just being incredibly hard, but they were building an operating system codenamed I think Copland was the first version and they were going to have a second release called Gershwin.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“It wasn’t something that you plugged it in and it just worked and it delighted you and it solved your need. I think that, I don’t know, especially like as a VC this is what we look for.”
- Publisher
- Acquired