Acquired / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
Claim mix
Evidence policy
Every row below preserves an exact excerpt. Identified speakers are linked; unresolved voices are labeled and excluded from people counts.
Claim ledger
22 published records
01 / commitment
“Noire app from your Amazon Echo—we're not on Google Home, we will be after the first of the year—and you can play a murder mystery in which you're in the creepy town of St.”
02 / belief
“When he got sick, I think the record guys didn't in a very significant way and that's where it came off the rails.”
03 / belief
“In fact, I think Atari is maybe the only company in the world in which the market leader abandoned its market.”
04 / belief
“I think that was my unique contribution that is far enough out of the mainstream that it may never have happened, or it may, you just never know.”
05 / uncertainty
“We talked about you as the first hacker archetype as a CEO. I don't know if you call yourself a CEO, president, founder.”
06 / belief
“I think I remember reading in the research that Etak was one of the companies that did navigation technologies.”
07 / belief
“I think so, yeah. I've often said that I blazed the trail for both Gates and Jobs, just proving that it could be done.”
08 / belief
“I realized that in those days, the coin-op distribution network tended to be two, sometimes three in every major city.”
09 / belief
“In this case, I think what's coming out is Warner didn't really know why they bought it and then that led to some of the falling apart later.”
10 / belief
“I think to understand that clearly, you need to understand what was going on at the time.”
11 / belief
“Primarily, to freshmen, but the thing is, I would say, “Hey, I know this guy that will supply things and he's expensive,” but I charge $50 for a fake ID in those days and I'd say, “Hey, I'm taking $5, it's commission to broker this deal but I'll get it to you,” and they’d give the name and what-have-you.”
12 / belief
“There’s one other trend here that you're on that I think is brilliant, of course, AI driven is interesting, next-generation gaming is interesting, but the most popular emerging podcast category is true crime, and this notion that you could have interactive gamified true-crime is really cool.”
13 / recommendation
“I don't think it exists down in Southern California yet, but it's fresh farm-to-table groceries delivered to your door in San Francisco, and it's wonderful. Jenny loves it, we use it all the time.”
14 / prediction
“If you have a mapping system in your car or on your iPhone, it's all based on the technology we created.”
15 / prediction
“When it came time for the next game, I said, “I really don't want to hang my star with these guys because they will underproduce, they’ll nickel and dime things.”
16 / evaluation
“The screens that were on the computers were all vector graphics because raster scan wants 3.”
17 / evaluation
“I think actually Woz doesn't get enough credit for the success of Apple because he could design discrete logic chips.”
18 / commitment
“I said, “You got to get it done in a few weeks because I think I can sell it to General Electric.”
19 / preference
“I'd been around this thing by the seat of my pants and he says, “I'll set you up with a guy that can write your business plan for you because I need it for an investment because I like your business.”
20 / evaluation
“I got a shock and various things, I learned how to discharge the CRT because it's popped up to 15,000 volts, you don't want to do that.”
21 / evaluation
“Actually, the business model, I'm more proud of than the technology because I built this company, my partner and I put in $250 each, that's the only capital that went into the company until Don Valentine in 1975.”
22 / commitment
“We built up two, and these were in wire wraps and they were going to put one on location and I got on the airplane with the other one under my arm with a modulator so I could hook it up to a local TV.”