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[slow, ambient music]
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[Swisher] In Silicon Valley
there's a lot of origin stories
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of companies that were at...
had the right idea, but were completely
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at the wrong time and yet they
paved the path for everything else.
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[Markoff] There are a handful of
stories that define Silicon Valley.
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You know, there are legends,
and General Magic was one of the legends.
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[Sculley] You have to believe,
you have to be proud, you have to be
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absolutely convinced that you're gonna
bend the way the world is moving,
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and you're going to take
it in a different direction.
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If you're always playing it
safe and you're not failing
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there's a very high probability you are
not doing anything particularly important.
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[Joanna] No matter how big we dreamed,
the fact that you could touch
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the lives of billions,
billions,
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it was vaguely
imaginable,
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but the scale of it
was inconceivable.
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[Hershenson] The reason you should
care about the story of General Magic
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is because it involves
something fundamental,
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and that is...
failure isn't the end.
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Failure is actually
the beginning.
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[Hoffman] The reason this story so
haunts the people that were involved,
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that they still live with it,
is because they knew that they were right.
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[Hershenson] Did it fail? I mean, the company
itself failed, the ideas didn't fail.
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The people who worked there didn't fail.
So, was it a failure?
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[dramatic music]
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[bell ringing]
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[Tony] I was in high school.
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Sixteen at the time.
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I didn't really wanna go to class.
Every waking moment that I wasn't in school
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I was on the computer, learning something
about it, programming and doing something.
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Talking to friends about it, I was the geek,
you know, The Revenge of the Nerds.
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For me every weekend was fixing things, or
building things, from the age of three or four.
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Soapbox derby racer, or we could
repair lawnmowers or what have you.
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But with this I could create new things.
I could sit there and I could program a game,
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or I could program graphics, I could do things
and you spoke a language no one else knew
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and you could tell people about
it and they were like, wow.
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And then it was the Mac
and it was all about the Mac.
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[whispering] What is that?
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There were names of people like Andy
Hertzfeld, Joanna Hoffman, Bill Atkinson,
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rock stars in Rolling Stone, but had nothing
to do with music. They were my heroes.
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My name is Andy Hertzfeld, I bought and
fell in love with an Apple II in 1978.
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And went to work for Apple in 1979 and was
lucky enough to help design the Macintosh.
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You have to go
and find out more about them,
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and how can I go work with them,
because I wanted to be like them.
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[Chariots of Fire
by Vangelis playing]
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[audience cheering]
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[computerized voice] Hello, I am Macintosh.
It sure is great to get out of that bag.
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[crowd cheering]
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January 24th 1984,
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uh, the Macintosh was being
publicly introduced
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to the world,
for the very first time.
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[Joanna] You know what
I remember? We were sitting here
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and there was this roar, just sort of
like a sound wave coming, coming at us.
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It was a culmination of years of
work, of years of expectation.
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This was it.
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What we are trying to do
with Macintosh is take away
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yet another barrier
to usage of personal computers.
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One of the neatest things about
Macintosh was we had a chance
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to change the way that people
thought of computers.
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We called it the computer
for the rest of us,
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because computers
weren't for ordinary people.
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We thought we had a chance to make a
difference. Steve Jobs just drummed it into us.
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He was just such
a brilliant motivator.
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The greatest people are self-managing.
They don't need to be managed.
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What they need
is a common vision.
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Once they know what to do,
they'll go figure out how to do it.
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[Andy] We truly believed
with every fiber of our being
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that if we can solve that problem of,
um, making computers accessible
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to an ordinary person by making
them easy enough to use,
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we could truly change the world.
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[Joanna]
But behind the scenes,
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behind that facade,
things were changing.
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Steve Jobs was involved
in palace politics.
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That was much bigger
at that moment than the Mac.
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I was just too tunnel-visioned
to be able to appreciate that.
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[Andy] I got a phone call, like
around 10:00 a.m. in the morning
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from someone on the Mac team saying, "You
won't believe this, but Steve got fired."
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The core team was stunned.
That said, things were a mess in many ways.
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But Steve and John Sculley didn't
agree about what to do with it.
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Fights escalated to the point
where the board told Sculley
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that he had to remove Steve.
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Um, wrenching decision
for everyone,
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both Steve and Sculley
and everyone close to them.
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[Joanna] Since the Mac,
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really I think we were all
looking for the next thing
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- because it really jaded us for anything else.
- [Andy] Yes.
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[Joanna] Any other project that kept
coming up, kinda fizzled very quickly
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because it didn't have
the grandness of the vision,
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it didn't have the grandness
of potential impact.
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And now what?
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[soft music]
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Good evening, I'm Marc Porat.
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Today many people believe
that information tools
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are the third technology to change
the course of civilization.
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Changing our relationship
to nature, to each other,
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to the very way
we experience reality.
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The Aspen Institute attracted
some of the most amazing people.
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It had a place where they could speak
freely to each other in private.
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Cyrus Vance or Henry Kissinger
or the Shahbanou of Iran or...
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Very, very powerful people that
you would never expect to meet.
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Those were the people, that was,
that was the teaching there, you could,
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and in fact, you were responsible and
had a mandate to invent the future.
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Because the future your parents
handed you, that was broken.
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And so that started me in the track of
saying, "What can I do to create the future?"
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There comes a moment where for
some reason you are in the future,
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and you see something very,
very clearly. You just see it.
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That's what happened to me,
and I went into the future,
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and I saw the world which, which I
thought was very real and very tangible.
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And I stood in that moment, inside it,
and I looked around my... me,
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and it was there, it was all there.
It was basically the General Magic vision.
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It was gonna be so revolutionary
that it would take over the world.
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So this book I wrote in 1989 and this
was a compilation of, of the ideas.
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And it was called
Pocket Crystal.
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And this is
what we came up with in 1989.
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And there it is,
we really had it. [chuckles]
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We definitely had it.
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[clink-clank noises]
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Business is just stories.
That's what people do, they tell stories.
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And they... and the ones who tell the
most compelling stories are the ones who,
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you know, end up making the most progress
forward and Marc was a great story teller.
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After Steve Jobs left in 1985,
a lot of people were pretty depressed,
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and they wondered what Apple's
future was going to be like.
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You know, could Apple still
go on without Steve Jobs there?
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Marc was one of the first people to see
that computing in the future was gonna be,
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not just about computation,
it was gonna be about communications,
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it was gonna be about content and it
was gonna be very, very personal.
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Something that you could
hold in your hand.
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[Marc] And it was a telephone,
it was essentially going to be a smartphone
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with a lot
of intelligence in it.
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Imagine a personal computer,
with applications organized
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around these personal
wants and needs.
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An object through which you communicated
with yourself about everything
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that you're thinking about. It was the way
you reached out and touched other people,
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and it was the way that you reach
beyond that into the larger world.
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Marc always came with his giant red book,
uh, and he would thumb through the pages
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and, uh,
he was able to romance me,
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he was able to romance
Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld.
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[answering machine] Please leave
a message and we will return
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your call
as quickly as possible.
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I saw a message on my answering
machine from Bill Atkinson
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who was my mentor
at Apple, my hero.
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"I just saw
the greatest thing ever.
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You got to come back to
Apple to work with me on it."
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And the very next day Marc Porat came over
to my house with his models and stuff.
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Wouldn't it be nice, if all these notes,
which are very useful,
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I could have with me when I needed them.
Wouldn't it be nice I suppose,
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if letters that were important,
arrived, fell out of the sky.
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[Andy] I was a little skeptical at first,
because Marc is such a slick salesperson,
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but I saw that, hey,
this is pretty cool.
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[Joanna] And when I saw this,
the concept and I talked to Marc,
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I got the same butterflies
in my stomach.
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The same feeling that I had when I
first encountered the Macintosh.
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This book was not just ideas,
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not just possibilities,
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but this was a complete
and thorough collection
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of the vision of the future,
scenario by scenario.
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Marc said, "We are gonna create what
comes after the personal computer."
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"John," he said, "I think this
can be the future of Apple,
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but I'm not sure it
can be done inside of Apple.
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I think it's got to be
a separate company."
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I helped Marc get the investment
from the Apple board.
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So Apple ended up
spinning out General Magic.
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This was the beginning of what became,
I think, the most important company
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to come out of Silicon Valley
that nobody had ever heard of.
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[upbeat music]
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[Markoff] There was this
aura of secrecy.
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We knew the people that went in.
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We knew they were smart people.
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You know it had Apple's
fairy dust sprinkled on it.
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So we had no idea what it was,
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but by the rumors
it seemed just captivating.
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There's this company,
it has Andy and Bill and,
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and they're going off
to do something.
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And I was like, "I don't know what they are
doing yet, but I know I need to be there."
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I was dressed up,
I had my suit coat and a tie,
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and I was there at about
8:30 in the morning.
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I knocked on the door,
no one answered, so I opened the door
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and it was very quiet and I'm
like, "Where is everybody?"
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And I look over and there are
two people in this office
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and they had been there all night,
and they looked at me with these dazed eyes
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and they were like, "We're
not hiring." And that was it.
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[Stern] Everybody in the valley knew that
Magic was... was doing something really cool,
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and really hot, they didn't
know exactly what it was.
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Everybody wanted to be there and people
literally would sleep on the doorstep
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to try to get an interview
or get into the building.
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[interviewer] I mean from your
perspective, is this unique?
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Or is this everywhere in
the valley and not so special?
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No, no it's
not everywhere in the valley!
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The best, the brightest
the coolest, the smartest.
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[Bill] Hi Megan, welcome aboard.
[laughter]
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Oh, smile!
You are on "Candid Camera."
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[Megan] I was always
building things.
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I come from a long line of engineers.
And so the idea of going to Silicon Valley
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and learning with these extraordinary
people how to make products
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and create things
and do just amazing things,
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that's what I wanted to do,
it was drawing me.
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Andy Hertzfeld had gotten my name as
a Mac developer, and so he called me.
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[Andy] I'm sorry to offend you with
this Non Disclosure Agreement...
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But he couldn't tell me what it
was, and I was just thinking,
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"Oh my god I am talking to
Andy Hertzfeld right now."
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My parents are looking at
me going, "I don't know anything
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about this General Magic.
Why don't you go to a company you know, like
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IBM or Microsoft, can't you go
there, where it's well known?"
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I'm like, "No, I wanna go
work for General Magic."
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He would call me ten, fifteen
times a day just begging,
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"Please get my resume"
and he would just ask me,
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"Please, I will not stop
until I work there."
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[Tony] And so I go into
the interview, first thing in,
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people sat me down on the floor, ripped my
tie off, ripped off my jacket and said,
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"That's not how we work here." So I go home
back to Michigan, packed up all my things,
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and put them in a car and then I'm like,
I got to hear something.
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So I called Dee. "What's going on?"
"We have a process, we are going through it.
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We are gonna have a meeting we will
talk about you, we will let you know."
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[Dee] He would not
stop calling me.
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Then I started calling
like every day.
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I said, "please call him
because he is driving me crazy."
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[ring tone] - I got the call.
"Congratulations
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you got the job,"
and I just went nuts.
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[lively music]
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[Marc] Email from me to John Sculley:
"We realize that the root of our strength
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was that we understood how people use
information machines better than anyone else.
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This is our early vision
for the product.
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A tiny computer, a phone,
a very personal object.
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It must be beautiful.
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It must offer the kind of personal satisfaction
that a fine piece of jewelry brings.
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It will have a perceived value
even when it is not being used.
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It should offer the comfort
of a touchstone.
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The tactile satisfaction of a seashell.
The enchantment of a crystal.
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Once you use it, you won't
be able to live without it.
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It's just not another telephone.
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It must be something else."
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So a lot of people in the
valley they have this idea
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that they're, that they're changing
the world and they say that a lot.
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They sometimes call themselves
"chief change agents," and stuff like that.
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It's mostly bullshit, uh, but they have to
believe it in order, you know, you don't make
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a photo app and you're not changing the
world with a photo app. You're just not.
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It's not solving cancer, it's not solving
poverty, it's not solving climate change.
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You know, they all have this idea
that they are doing something bigger
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than what the actual thing is,
but it's like the car, the lightbulb,
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it's the idea of a computer in your pocket,
it's a really big idea.
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This device that allows them
to access everything.
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But back then,
there wasn't an internet,
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there wasn't the worldwide
network of information.
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There weren't people using it,
there wasn't cell phones then,
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'cause there wasn't, you know, wireless,
like everything there wasn't, wasn't.
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The reason I started covering it,
was because when I saw it, I was like, "Oh!
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This is where it leads." The idea of mobile
computing, uhm, started at General Magic.
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- Hi guys, I've got the chips from Motorola.
- Yeah.
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[man] Yay, all right, all right.
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Cool.
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- [laughter]
- [chattering]
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When you started to hear about the different
people that were also there, it was like
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Dan Winkler?
Dan Winkler's here? I know Dan
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I would read all of his books!
There was Scott Knaster, Jimmy Freelander,
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Susan Kare, "They're here too?"
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Uhm, what am I doing right now?
Uhm...
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Picking that "Paradigm" movie.
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[Tony] And then, all of a sudden,
Andy Hertzfeld walks by,
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Joanna Hoffman walks by,
and you're like, "Oh my god!" You know.
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"Aah," you know, you're resonating,
like the rock stars are here.
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- [Tony] And then they just sit down on the floor next to you!
- How are you doing?
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[Tony] It wasn't just the best
of the Apple of the 80's.
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It was the best of Apple early
90's that were all coming.
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And here is this whole
team of people bubbling
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and bursting, you know, and I'm still
trying to figure out how to get along.
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I have this kind of longer hair and
I got my high tops from Detroit.
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I was the lowest guy on the totem pole, you
know, "Give him some stuff and try things."
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- I was worried the chips had bugs in them.
- Cut your hands.
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[Amy] I was only going into engineering
because I knew that it would be like a tool kit
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I could use until
someone would hire me.
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But then I got into it, and
it turns out, oh jeez, you know,
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like I was actually really good at circuit
design, like who knew, you know, who knew?
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The service I would most like to
see would be a shopping service.
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I could order everything,
from my Teletouch.
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[Megan] A lot of times people in
their twenties are out, you know,
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in the bars and hanging out,
but our twenties are spent
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you know, just powering through, with each other,
building these extraordinary things together.
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- ...the camera.
- [indistinct chattering]
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- [all] Ooh!
- [woman] Tony, was that you?
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You know, I hadn't had that many
first days of jobs before
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and I wondered, "Is the first
day of every job like this?"
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- The answer to that is no.
- [Tony] Zed, the cell broke open.
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I met Andy Hertzfeld for the first time,
he was already famous, I knew
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what he looked like. In my world he was one of
the superstars, and it is a little embarrassing
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to put it this way, but that was,
that was pretty much like falling in love.
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[laughter] - OK!
Let's... let's try to, uh, start the meeting,
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the... the first, uh,
the first obvious thing to mention is... is
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that we are not alone here today.
we're being filmed for posterity.
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It'll be a good historical
or hysterical document, uh,
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some time in the future anyway,
and so...
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Well, I was the black sheep.
I was a filmmaker.
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I'd never heard of a startup.
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[Andy] I'm wired and wired
for Sam here.
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It shouldn't, it shouldn't
be too disruptive.
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[Hoffman] What I understood
was that these people were
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doing something
so charmingly different,
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so charmingly new. So... fun.
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And you could trust them because what
they were driven towards, wasn't a job,
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the job never came up,
the salary never came up.
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It was where we were headed,
we were going to change the world.
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We all basically sat on the floor... no, I
did not. They all basically sat on the floor
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to talk about what it was,
what are we gonna call this handheld product.
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We've been talking about possible names,
what is the device?
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One of the things that's really special is
that it's in my pocket with me all the time.
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It's a very different thing than computers.
It's something that is in my pocket
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and I run my life out of it
and through it.
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It was this notion of anytime,
anywhere communication.
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The notion that it wasn't
just gonna be a phone,
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but you could do all these other
things with it, to integrate all that
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into one thing
that I could hold in my hand.
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I thought, "Oh my god,
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if I could have one of those."
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I'm ready. And that was
how things started.
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- [interviewer] We're rolling.
- Oh yeah?
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[indistinct chatter]
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- Show us what's in the box.
- Uhm. OK.
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We are trying to make something that people
love. We need it to be like your watch,
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you know, it feels like you're saying your
watch, your glasses, your, your, um, your wallet.
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Something that you like the color,
you like the way it feels.
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You know this is a huge, ugly thing, but, um,
we had to start somewhere, we had to start
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with components that we could buy
off the shelf because you're...
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you're working from, uh...
You're working from wishes and ideas
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of how you wish it would be
and real components
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that you can buy that are cheap enough
that you can make the product reasonable
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so people can afford it because if it
cost a million dollars, forget it.
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[interviewer] Was that the first one
or the begin... in the beginning?
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This is in the very beginning and,
um, one of the problems with this,
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was that the touchscreen
was extremely noisy.
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And it just didn't have the resolution,
it would be a horrible experience
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for people to use this thing.
So that was actually our hardest component.
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We were pushing the envelope
on every single front,
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so we're figuring out what size
should it be, what sensor,
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what electric plug should it have,
how many buttons should we have if any.
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[Kevin] The feeling was that anything
was possible. You could shoot
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as high as you wanted to here and as a
team we were gonna be able to do it.
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The purpose of doing all this,
is to go out and... and create prototypes
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so that the team can plug them
into the Mac and run the software
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behind it and experience
what a user would experience.
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[Amy] The array of personalities,
they were all like nuclear power plants,
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each one of them working on
solving these difficult problems.
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For me the challenge was challenging
myself to try and work at that level.
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I was a newbie. A lot of people got to just do,
you know, if you're the young guy in the team
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you had to learn and do.
So you had to work double or triple time.
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He was our college kid.
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[Tony] I'm hooking up
a demo so that we can see
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keyboards working
with the device.
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[Adler] Tony wanted to learn
everything, from everyone.
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Whatever it was, yes!
And more of it and how can I do more to help.
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- [interviewer] Is it important?
- Uh, if you want to hook up disc drives
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and things of that nature, yeah.
It's really important.
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[Tony] I wanted to make it work
really seamlessly and fast.
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This is basically our first test of our...
our... basically a first demo
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of our peripheral system
for the... for the walkabout.
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And this was a technology
to string peripherals together.
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Today we call it USB, and so we were
creating USB before the world knew about it.
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- [woman whispering] Oh god.
- [Tony] It finally works.
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We decided to make everything.
I mean, we were making it all.
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See right now the whole class viewable
texture is one formatter for everything.
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That meant we were custom building every
piece, it's kind of like hand assembling a car
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rather than using a factory.
And so it's, it's insane, it's insane.
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In many projects, you might build one
or two innovative break-out things,
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and then you build on top of a lot of
existing stuff, you kind of stand on
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the shoulders of giants, and we weren't
doing that at General Magic, we were
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building the giant from the toes all
the way up to its head. [chuckles]
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We couldn't find a touch screen
to solve this problem, in fact,
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at one point,
let me see if I can find it.
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At one point, we had to
invent one. [chuckles]
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This Wendell, who works for Wendell Sander,
he came up with this idea
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of a touch screen that would be
balanced on four points
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and as you pushed on it you
could, you could sense touch.
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So as you touch it
in any particular place,
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you can do the math,
so you do the whole force
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minus the X and Y and you can
figure out where you are.
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Whether you are touching T or
whether you're touching Caps Lock.
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- [interviewer] How small will it finally be, do you think?
- Some day?
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Dick Tracy wrist watch,
but... [chuckles]
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Right now, in the beginning, we are starting with
a screen size that's probably about that big.
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Technically it was really, really hard to
build something the size of those models.
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Uh, the technology just wasn't there yet,
but, hey, that was ok,
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to build something a little
clunkier for the first generation,
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we knew, uh, if it caught on,
it would eventually get down there.
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[Adler] The touchscreen
is a little funky.
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What was this thing gonna look like?
You know, we knew what size screen
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we were gonna have,
but we didn't know that early
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everything we're gonna
put on that screen.
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The thing
about computer programming
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is you're making something
out of nothing.
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[cameraman] This is not nerds
creating for others nerds here.
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There is a creative
process here that is much like
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making a film or painting
a picture or doing a play.
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This is very creative, which is
a surprise to a lot of people.
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- This is a very creative process.
- [producer] You mean artistic?
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- Artistic? You mean artistic.
- Yeah.
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I'll ask him about them, OK?
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Yeah, that's absolut...
that got the crew yesterday.
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The common ground between
Apple and what we did
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at General Magic
in the sixties was idealism.
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Our art could make a difference
in, in the lives of everyone,
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everyone you know
and everyone you don't know.
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I think, uh, communications is the most
fundamentally human thing that we do,
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and that's really why what we are doing cuts
to the heart of... of... of who we are.
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Uh, that's what distinguishes people more
than any other thing I think, the, uh,
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the sense of community, a sense of, of,
reaching out from yourself to someone else.
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One of the things Bill and I do is
just by word of mouth passing, passing
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that spirit down, down
to the next generation.
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We were always saying, wow, wouldn't it be
great if we did that and Andy would do this,
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he would stay up all night coding
the thing that we just came up with
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the idea that evening. He would
stay up all night and bring in
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a fully working thing
the next morning.
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[Kevin] So we created this concept of
different rooms, and Andy went off
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and over the weekend
he completely rewrote the system
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to implement this hallways thing.
So we come back and it's all there.
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That shouldn't have been possible for one
person to do that much work in one go.
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[Adler] Passion is the thing
that breaks through logic
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and makes you try
to get every part right,
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not because of some science,
but because of
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your feeling of pride and desire
to do something great.
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[Andy] All you have to do is tap on
this little letter creating icon
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and, uh, your favorite
stationary pops out
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of the drawer. You notice
it looks like a little postcard.
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[Joanna] There was mail, there was calendar,
everything was communicating
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with each other and tiny little
things that would delight people
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that would wink at people that
would just make it so special.
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One interesting area we...
we haven't done is... is expressing emotions.
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Uh, what... what extent would you
use to express anger at someone.
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[Marc] Emoticons, today,
emoticons are a big deal.
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In those days no one knew what
it was, there was no such thing.
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Andy and Bill would disappear
and come back with emoticons
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that were animated. They were
amazingly cute and intelligent.
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Only one person hated
the happy face. It's like...
430
00:29:32,208 --> 00:29:35,290
- Who was that?
- [laughter]
431
00:29:35,291 --> 00:29:38,249
[Adler] I've certainly never worked with
a team as ambitious. It's almost like
432
00:29:38,250 --> 00:29:42,791
we didn't care about what made sense.
You know, how else could it be good enough?
433
00:29:42,792 --> 00:29:46,124
There was, uh, confidence,
even arrogance there too.
434
00:29:46,125 --> 00:29:49,541
[Tony] Are you kidding me?
This is, this is fun!
435
00:29:49,542 --> 00:29:52,666
[Amy] It was like we could walk
through walls and do anything.
436
00:29:52,667 --> 00:29:55,958
[Tony] Being there with all these people
who were like, "We can change the world
437
00:29:55,959 --> 00:29:58,833
and we're going to do it
and let me show you how."
438
00:29:58,834 --> 00:30:02,165
[Hoffman] They were on
a joy ride, a rocket ride
439
00:30:02,166 --> 00:30:05,082
with all the freedom
to do what they wanted to do.
440
00:30:05,083 --> 00:30:08,917
Now it's getting them to
understand this thing costs money.
441
00:30:13,083 --> 00:30:14,083
Real money.
442
00:30:17,834 --> 00:30:21,874
In 1990 there was no digital
telecommunications industry.
443
00:30:21,875 --> 00:30:24,958
It did not exist,
anywhere in the world.
444
00:30:24,959 --> 00:30:28,124
We were in the analog era,
there were no
445
00:30:28,125 --> 00:30:31,332
digital cellphones,
there was no World Wide Web.
446
00:30:31,333 --> 00:30:33,833
[Stern] We were talking about bringing
millions of people onto a network
447
00:30:33,834 --> 00:30:36,916
that had to be industrial
strength, reliable,
448
00:30:36,917 --> 00:30:40,207
and run 24 by 7 by 365
with no glitches.
449
00:30:40,208 --> 00:30:42,708
Who else could do that,
but the telephone company?
450
00:30:42,709 --> 00:30:44,959
That's who we needed,
and that meant AT&T.
451
00:30:50,333 --> 00:30:53,207
[Michael] The AT&T folks came in this
gigantic stretched limo that was too big
452
00:30:53,208 --> 00:30:55,541
to get into the parking lot and I
was watching them out of the window
453
00:30:55,542 --> 00:30:58,249
of the second floor conference room.
Watching them trying to maneuver the car
454
00:30:58,250 --> 00:31:03,207
into the parking lot.
They just couldn't do it.
455
00:31:03,208 --> 00:31:05,624
So they eventually got out of their
car and they trouped upstairs.
456
00:31:05,625 --> 00:31:09,040
We're still waiting for Bill and
people are staring at their shoes
457
00:31:09,041 --> 00:31:12,207
and a little uncomfortable.
That was not a good start.
458
00:31:12,208 --> 00:31:14,249
- Um...
- [woman] What happened?
459
00:31:14,250 --> 00:31:18,124
So Bill finally shows up.
Um, he hadn't taken a shower in a week.
460
00:31:18,125 --> 00:31:22,541
He was wearing a Hawaiian shirt,
he stunk like a goat.
461
00:31:22,542 --> 00:31:25,666
You could see the noses wrinkle on
the faces of the three AT&T guys,
462
00:31:25,667 --> 00:31:27,749
but they launched the demo.
463
00:31:27,750 --> 00:31:30,082
- [AT&T] This is a touchscreen? So I can ahead go and touch it.
- [Andy] Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
464
00:31:30,083 --> 00:31:33,082
[Stern] No one had ever thought
of the kind of ideas
465
00:31:33,083 --> 00:31:35,999
that Marc, Bill and Andy
had instantiated in this demo.
466
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,874
...another step.
Would you like a cookie?
467
00:31:37,875 --> 00:31:39,791
- Oh no. I've eaten too many.
- Would you like a cookie?
468
00:31:39,792 --> 00:31:45,458
The AT&T folks said, "We're in," and they
joined us as the first network partner.
469
00:31:46,959 --> 00:31:50,582
[Hoffman] You got to have AT&T,
you got to have Apple,
470
00:31:50,583 --> 00:31:52,165
that's your roots.
471
00:31:52,166 --> 00:31:56,749
You got to have Motorola and
Sony, they make the devices.
472
00:31:56,750 --> 00:31:58,082
And you got to have Phillips.
473
00:31:58,083 --> 00:32:00,207
They're also gonna
make devices.
474
00:32:00,208 --> 00:32:03,124
Without those, we couldn't
have been General Magic.
475
00:32:03,125 --> 00:32:08,958
[Stern] And we charged them six million
dollars for the privilege of joining... each.
476
00:32:08,959 --> 00:32:12,249
Here was this little startup in Silicon
Valley, that was gonna change the world,
477
00:32:12,250 --> 00:32:16,124
everybody was afraid of being
left out of the vision.
478
00:32:16,125 --> 00:32:19,749
This company's scale is small,
but thinking so big.
479
00:32:19,750 --> 00:32:22,666
Immediately we
decided to join it
480
00:32:22,667 --> 00:32:26,416
Yes, just, boom,
one second, we decided.
481
00:32:26,417 --> 00:32:31,457
[Joanna] Sony Japan was unbelievably great,
but I think one of the things
482
00:32:31,458 --> 00:32:38,290
that Marc underestimated is how
each one of those relationships
483
00:32:38,291 --> 00:32:41,290
contributed to an enormous
level of complexity.
484
00:32:41,291 --> 00:32:44,374
...he said we have these three bears
out there, and we call them Goldilocks.
485
00:32:44,375 --> 00:32:47,207
- We're gonna dance with the three bears.
- [laughter]
486
00:32:47,208 --> 00:32:50,499
- [Andy] Marc is Goldilocks.
- I find him, grraawr, grraawr!
487
00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:52,416
- [laughter]
- Gurrhr!
488
00:32:52,417 --> 00:32:54,708
I thought you grraawr, grraawr!
489
00:32:54,709 --> 00:32:57,124
[Marc] The vision was gonna happen
because we were putting together
490
00:32:57,125 --> 00:33:00,332
16 of the largest companies
on the planet
491
00:33:00,333 --> 00:33:03,165
who are natural enemies, into...
into the same room at the same time.
492
00:33:03,166 --> 00:33:07,457
We knew we were innovating, no one had done
anything like that, and if it succeeded
493
00:33:07,458 --> 00:33:13,791
it would change everything and
that took a war-like energy.
494
00:33:13,792 --> 00:33:17,165
That was fighting,
that was battle.
495
00:33:17,166 --> 00:33:21,416
[calm music]
496
00:33:21,417 --> 00:33:24,916
[Sculley] We had no choice, but to keep
quiet about the things we were doing
497
00:33:24,917 --> 00:33:30,541
because other companies were interested in
it as well, and we tried to keep secrecy
498
00:33:30,542 --> 00:33:37,457
at a level that would give a small company like
General Magic time to create, time to develop.
499
00:33:37,458 --> 00:33:42,749
[Dee] Everybody had to shred everything.
We couldn't put everything in one bin.
500
00:33:42,750 --> 00:33:49,124
We had to wait and... and kind of dole
it out to various different places.
501
00:33:49,125 --> 00:33:51,207
We were asked not to talk
about it outside
502
00:33:51,208 --> 00:33:54,040
of the office because we didn't
want any of it leaked.
503
00:33:54,041 --> 00:33:58,040
So there was this buzz around the company,
but it really was kind of this, this, cipher.
504
00:33:58,041 --> 00:34:02,207
We had to keep it under wraps.
Part of that was this PR strategy
505
00:34:02,208 --> 00:34:06,916
that we had only one shot
to make news.
506
00:34:06,917 --> 00:34:10,457
[Marc] "While we're in business
development stage, security is essential.
507
00:34:10,458 --> 00:34:13,624
If the concept leaks,
we lose our competitive edge.
508
00:34:13,625 --> 00:34:18,416
Please use the highest level of personal
attention to security, including,
509
00:34:18,417 --> 00:34:22,290
if asked by an Apple colleague
not on the team, say nothing.
510
00:34:22,291 --> 00:34:24,916
If asked by a non-Apple
person, tell me immediately."
511
00:34:24,917 --> 00:34:29,499
Now it should be noted,
John Sculley was running Apple at the time.
512
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:35,125
[Joanna] In that sense he was our ally,
or so we thought.
513
00:34:39,250 --> 00:34:46,290
I was getting intense pressure from the Apple
board and from the Apple management team
514
00:34:46,291 --> 00:34:49,457
as to why was I spending
so much time on General Magic.
515
00:34:49,458 --> 00:34:54,457
And Apple was developing in parallel
a business that it owned 100% of,
516
00:34:54,458 --> 00:34:58,290
called Newton, and that looked
like they could ship a product.
517
00:34:58,291 --> 00:35:04,666
Ten years ago we launched Macintosh,
a revolution for the desktop.
518
00:35:04,667 --> 00:35:09,207
And today we are launching Newton,
a revolution for the pocket.
519
00:35:09,208 --> 00:35:13,666
John Sculley gave a keynote
address at the 1993
520
00:35:13,667 --> 00:35:17,791
consumer electronic shows where
he announced what we were doing.
521
00:35:17,792 --> 00:35:22,457
Imagine being able to take a cellular
telephone and be able to be paged
522
00:35:22,458 --> 00:35:26,916
on the phone and write a little note and
fax it off to someone else in response.
523
00:35:26,917 --> 00:35:32,332
Except he announced it as something Apple
was doing. We thought Apple wasn't doing it
524
00:35:32,333 --> 00:35:34,916
and we found out from
that speech that they were.
525
00:35:34,917 --> 00:35:38,374
I wish I could say
that I was hurt. I wasn't...
526
00:35:38,375 --> 00:35:42,165
I wasn't just hurt, I was angry.
I was fur... I was really angry.
527
00:35:42,166 --> 00:35:44,374
[Andy] They had, uh,
decided to make something
528
00:35:44,375 --> 00:35:47,999
essentially based on
Marc's models.
529
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,165
I thought Newton was,
I thought that they could co-exist, you know.
530
00:35:53,166 --> 00:35:58,499
And, so I wasn't really concerned
that Newton would hurt General Magic.
531
00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:03,332
They were our closest partner
who really gave us our life.
532
00:36:03,333 --> 00:36:09,958
And so when we found out that they were trying
to kill us, we felt completely betrayed.
533
00:36:09,959 --> 00:36:15,250
You wanna know about the Newton? I'll tell
you about the Newton, ???? the Newton.
534
00:36:18,208 --> 00:36:22,290
[Joanna] The Newton
announcement caused vision envy
535
00:36:22,291 --> 00:36:24,624
on the part of all
of our partners.
536
00:36:24,625 --> 00:36:28,541
They thought that Sculley's
was bigger than theirs.
537
00:36:28,542 --> 00:36:32,040
"I want that vision thing. Do
that vision thing for me too."
538
00:36:32,041 --> 00:36:36,582
And so they wanted to immediately
go up there and introduce.
539
00:36:36,583 --> 00:36:40,582
[Hoffman] We've got to explain the
vision such that everybody gets it.
540
00:36:40,583 --> 00:36:44,375
The press gets it,
the corporations get it, it's all clear.
541
00:36:48,041 --> 00:36:51,708
[woman] Leading the way to a new
age of personal communication,
542
00:36:51,709 --> 00:36:55,999
creating a revolutionary
electronic messaging environment.
543
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,082
We call this environment,
the Cloud.
544
00:36:59,083 --> 00:37:01,749
[Stern] The fact that the Newton was
going to ship and it was getting
545
00:37:01,750 --> 00:37:04,874
all this publicity meant that we
had to come out of stealth mode
546
00:37:04,875 --> 00:37:08,666
earlier than we had planned and
well before we were ready to ship.
547
00:37:08,667 --> 00:37:12,624
Stakes are higher, you better
be better than these guys.
548
00:37:12,625 --> 00:37:16,249
[Marc] Big event? This was
huge and we made it huge
549
00:37:16,250 --> 00:37:18,332
on purpose to raise
the jeopardy.
550
00:37:18,333 --> 00:37:22,249
We knew it was gonna be a marathon that
we were gonna run at sprint speed.
551
00:37:22,250 --> 00:37:27,417
It was gonna take everything out of us.
Down the torpedoes, it's full speed ahead.
552
00:37:29,625 --> 00:37:33,624
This is it, we're coming,
these amazing devices.
553
00:37:33,625 --> 00:37:36,792
[dramatic music]
554
00:37:40,625 --> 00:37:42,791
- [Markoff] You remember much about that day?
- [Saffo] Yeah, well,
555
00:37:42,792 --> 00:37:45,624
I remember my impression
of Marc was, "Huh,
556
00:37:45,625 --> 00:37:50,791
most of the vision of Jobs,
but he had better interface".
557
00:37:50,792 --> 00:37:52,791
[announcer]
Presenting Marc Porat.
558
00:37:52,792 --> 00:37:54,290
[audience applauding]
559
00:37:54,291 --> 00:37:56,124
Today we are going
to introduce the vision.
560
00:37:56,125 --> 00:38:00,457
Today we are introducing the technology,
introducing The Alliance.
561
00:38:00,458 --> 00:38:02,791
But let it be said
it's about feelings.
562
00:38:02,792 --> 00:38:07,457
How you feel about the
communication with another person.
563
00:38:07,458 --> 00:38:10,666
To me the relationships of your life,
is the fabric of your life.
564
00:38:10,667 --> 00:38:14,249
That's the stuff that defines
who we are as people.
565
00:38:14,250 --> 00:38:17,165
[MacAskill] Marc was one of the most
charismatic presenters you could ever imagine.
566
00:38:17,166 --> 00:38:21,457
But let me just hold it up for you, so you
can see what this thing is, you know, about.
567
00:38:21,458 --> 00:38:23,499
Its intent is to be
with me all the time.
568
00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:26,833
The thing about Porat when he speaks is,
everybody in the audience
569
00:38:26,834 --> 00:38:30,999
says to themselves two things,
they say, "My god this guy is right.
570
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:36,582
I can go to the roof of this
building and if I jump, I will fly."
571
00:38:36,583 --> 00:38:40,624
And the second thing they would think is,
"And that guy up there on stage,
572
00:38:40,625 --> 00:38:44,624
and me, we're the only
two guys who really get it."
573
00:38:44,625 --> 00:38:48,374
This, we hope will be with you as
simply part of your existence.
574
00:38:48,375 --> 00:38:52,124
It will be that useful.
The minute I see it in a store, I smile.
575
00:38:52,125 --> 00:38:55,582
It's about having fun, it's about leisure,
it's about entertainment.
576
00:38:55,583 --> 00:38:59,290
I just recall listening to him
and thinking, "Yes, yes!"
577
00:38:59,291 --> 00:39:04,374
When we were talking about re-inventing
telephony, we meant it. This is inexorable.
578
00:39:04,375 --> 00:39:08,124
The world of personal communications,
when it's fulfilled, uh, possibly
579
00:39:08,125 --> 00:39:12,290
in one generation, when I say generation,
I mean my children, my son and daughter.
580
00:39:12,291 --> 00:39:14,499
When they walk around with these
things they will be wireless.
581
00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:16,374
[Hershenson] Reporters would
leave these briefings saying,
582
00:39:16,375 --> 00:39:19,999
"My god, uh, forget the story
I'm writing, I want that.
583
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,708
The world that they just
described to me,
584
00:39:22,709 --> 00:39:25,708
I want to live in that world,
I want my kids to live in that world."
585
00:39:25,709 --> 00:39:28,874
[reporter 1] A tiny gadget
that combines the telephone,
586
00:39:28,875 --> 00:39:31,624
a fax machine,
and a personal computer.
587
00:39:31,625 --> 00:39:34,249
Cellular phone,
a pocket pager and a notepad.
588
00:39:34,250 --> 00:39:37,165
Sounds a bit like something from Star Trek,
you can send and receive messages,
589
00:39:37,166 --> 00:39:42,249
order tickets, get the latest headlines or
stock quotes and also you can talk on it.
590
00:39:42,250 --> 00:39:46,666
It was wall to wall coverage. New York times,
Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times.
591
00:39:46,667 --> 00:39:48,582
[Hoffman] It was front page
in the Economist,
592
00:39:48,583 --> 00:39:51,541
front page on the Wall Street
Journal. No small thing.
593
00:39:51,542 --> 00:39:54,624
[reporter] If this works the way
this industry wants it to work,
594
00:39:54,625 --> 00:39:57,958
this is going to be huge,
I mean, you are talking about
595
00:39:57,959 --> 00:40:01,374
the potential for hundreds of
millions of devices eventually.
596
00:40:01,375 --> 00:40:05,708
IBM is conspicuously absent from
the alliance. So is Microsoft,
597
00:40:05,709 --> 00:40:10,249
which is racing to develop its own
personal communicating software standard.
598
00:40:10,250 --> 00:40:15,708
[reporter] Some say it's revolutionary.
Others simply say it's magic.
599
00:40:15,709 --> 00:40:17,708
So we got a ton of coverage,
a ton of coverage,
600
00:40:17,709 --> 00:40:21,165
and that's also where,
the first questions where,
601
00:40:21,166 --> 00:40:22,791
"Well, this is, this is huge.
602
00:40:22,792 --> 00:40:25,999
Are they going to be able to
actually fulfill on that vision?"
603
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,916
[radio host] Marc Porat the President
and CEO and co-founder of General Magic.
604
00:40:29,917 --> 00:40:34,666
Thank you very much for being here.
What do you see as your... your startup date
605
00:40:34,667 --> 00:40:37,457
to actually have one of these
things in somebody's hand?
606
00:40:37,458 --> 00:40:40,290
[Marc Porat on the phone] We'll be talking
about dates and about product features
607
00:40:40,291 --> 00:40:43,624
in some detail this summer, but I did
want to have a chance to answer your...
608
00:40:43,625 --> 00:40:45,833
In other words nobody is saying when
one of these is gonna be available?
609
00:40:45,834 --> 00:40:47,624
- [Marc Porat] That's correct.
- OK, OK. So...
610
00:40:47,625 --> 00:40:50,457
[Marc] I caution...
I... I... I counsel caution...
611
00:40:50,458 --> 00:40:54,249
[Adler]...written record of it.
Um, but what we have, we have sort of...
612
00:40:54,250 --> 00:40:56,999
It did not go smoothly
after that at all.
613
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,207
Moments where somebody has to start doing
something and, uh, what we have decided is
614
00:41:01,208 --> 00:41:03,749
that for each of those important moments
we want to make sure that there is
615
00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:06,958
real responsibility for someone
to, you know, to... to say,
616
00:41:06,959 --> 00:41:09,249
"I am at this important moment,
you'll start doing your work."
617
00:41:09,250 --> 00:41:14,332
Marc and Bill and Andy together decided,
"Well, this is the person
618
00:41:14,333 --> 00:41:18,666
to manage the engineering team." That's what
they... that's what they wanted me to do.
619
00:41:18,667 --> 00:41:20,833
And then there was this one day
where I came to talk to all of them
620
00:41:20,834 --> 00:41:24,124
at once and they said,
"Oh we don't need a manager.
621
00:41:24,125 --> 00:41:28,457
We don't want you, because we don't
need a manager. Our leader, our leaders
622
00:41:28,458 --> 00:41:33,165
are Andy and Bill. Uh, that's what makes this
place great, is we don't have managers."
623
00:41:33,166 --> 00:41:37,124
[Tony] "We can be engineers without
a manager and we know what's best.
624
00:41:37,125 --> 00:41:40,999
Managers are just going to get in the way.
We don't need program managers,
625
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,666
we don't need any of that stuff.
We are just going to make it happen."
626
00:41:43,667 --> 00:41:45,709
[engine revving]
627
00:41:49,750 --> 00:41:53,833
[Marc] There was a fearlessness
and a sense of correctness,
628
00:41:53,834 --> 00:41:58,374
no questioning
of "Could I be wrong?" None.
629
00:41:58,375 --> 00:42:01,541
Because that's what you need to
break out of earth's gravity,
630
00:42:01,542 --> 00:42:04,666
you need... you need
an enormous amount of momentum.
631
00:42:04,667 --> 00:42:08,165
And that momentum comes
from suppressing introspection
632
00:42:08,166 --> 00:42:10,583
about the possibility
of failure.
633
00:42:12,583 --> 00:42:14,833
[Stern] The Alliance was the
biggest and most complicated
634
00:42:14,834 --> 00:42:17,708
consortium of global companies
that had been created
635
00:42:17,709 --> 00:42:19,374
up until that time
in American business.
636
00:42:19,375 --> 00:42:20,582
You had competitors
at the table.
637
00:42:20,583 --> 00:42:22,582
Sony and Panasonic
hated each other,
638
00:42:22,583 --> 00:42:24,249
and it made it
hard for them to commit
639
00:42:24,250 --> 00:42:26,124
fully to our business.
640
00:42:26,125 --> 00:42:27,958
We needed to become independent,
641
00:42:27,959 --> 00:42:29,332
and the only way
we could do that
642
00:42:29,333 --> 00:42:31,749
was buy selling stock
to the public.
643
00:42:31,750 --> 00:42:34,708
It was the first,
so called, concept IPO,
644
00:42:34,709 --> 00:42:37,207
which is when a company could
go public without any revenue,
645
00:42:37,208 --> 00:42:38,958
let alone any profits.
646
00:42:38,959 --> 00:42:42,667
What made that possible?
The imprimatur of Goldman Sachs.
647
00:42:44,792 --> 00:42:49,374
Goldman Sachs was the gold
standard for investment banking.
648
00:42:49,375 --> 00:42:55,416
If Goldman was going to do your initial
public offering, it meant that you too
649
00:42:55,417 --> 00:42:59,791
met the gold standard for being a
real company with real prospects.
650
00:42:59,792 --> 00:43:02,040
Didn't have a product,
didn't have a revenue stream,
651
00:43:02,041 --> 00:43:04,916
but, you know, it seemed cool
at the time, let's invest.
652
00:43:04,917 --> 00:43:07,666
[Marc] The best investment
bankers came to pitch us.
653
00:43:07,667 --> 00:43:13,457
One of them came and said,
"I must have a piece of the IPO.
654
00:43:13,458 --> 00:43:16,999
What would it take, what... if I gave you
the shirt off my back, would that do it?
655
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,833
And I said, "Yeah. It would!"
And he stripped down...
656
00:43:20,834 --> 00:43:24,124
- Don't film this stuff.
- [laughter]
657
00:43:24,125 --> 00:43:27,624
[Marc] And there we were standing in the
conference room with a half-naked banker.
658
00:43:27,625 --> 00:43:30,249
He got the deal,
he participated in the IPO.
659
00:43:30,250 --> 00:43:33,791
[indistinct chatter]
660
00:43:33,792 --> 00:43:35,625
Where is that
[indistinct] happening?
661
00:43:38,834 --> 00:43:39,834
Right here.
662
00:43:42,041 --> 00:43:46,457
So then they didn't make any 44260s in five
volts without this, right, enable thing?
663
00:43:46,458 --> 00:43:50,249
[Megan] Probably the most challenging part
of the product was deciding what not to do.
664
00:43:50,250 --> 00:43:53,165
What to do and what not to do,
because it's really hard, you're building
665
00:43:53,166 --> 00:43:58,290
a very complex platform.
And so just often things would take longer.
666
00:43:58,291 --> 00:44:02,165
For me, I had never done anything like that.
It was a huge challenge.
667
00:44:02,166 --> 00:44:06,875
You really had to work very hard to
build what we were trying to build.
668
00:44:08,834 --> 00:44:12,582
I really had to up my game and they were
all like, "Fadell you're doing it wrong.
669
00:44:12,583 --> 00:44:15,666
You should be doing it that way." And I'm
like, "No, I think it's the right way."
670
00:44:15,667 --> 00:44:18,165
But I couldn't really articulate
the way they could. So yeah,
671
00:44:18,166 --> 00:44:22,332
- I had to challenge myself and kinda go into the dark hole.
- A3 Volts...
672
00:44:22,333 --> 00:44:25,708
[Megan] Once we got the basics there,
you take the new chip that had
673
00:44:25,709 --> 00:44:29,749
whatever the latest software
that everybody had put together,
674
00:44:29,750 --> 00:44:33,291
pop it in and begin to see
the screen come to life.
675
00:44:35,250 --> 00:44:36,999
[keyboard clicking]
676
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:41,374
[Amy] We could see it,
we could touch it and feel it.
677
00:44:41,375 --> 00:44:46,082
But the responsiveness of the device was really
slow. Uh, the processor was underpowered,
678
00:44:46,083 --> 00:44:52,374
for example. So the experience
was a bit tap... tap...
679
00:44:52,375 --> 00:44:54,458
And, you know, kind of annoying.
680
00:44:56,375 --> 00:45:00,082
I was sitting in a lot
of the user test labs.
681
00:45:00,083 --> 00:45:03,040
The engineers would sit there and say,
"No, lady, what are you doing?
682
00:45:03,041 --> 00:45:06,082
Don't, don't tap that. No, it's
not there, it's over there!"
683
00:45:06,083 --> 00:45:09,082
And we'd all go, "Ooh."
There was some comedy there.
684
00:45:09,083 --> 00:45:12,082
[woman 1] The thing at the bottom
that kinda looks like a comb,
685
00:45:12,083 --> 00:45:15,916
I haven't the slightest idea
what that is.
686
00:45:15,917 --> 00:45:17,666
[man] This doesn't look
like it's working.
687
00:45:17,667 --> 00:45:19,541
[chimes] -
[woman] Is this noise supposed to be here?
688
00:45:19,542 --> 00:45:21,916
- [engineer] OK, we've crashed. We just crashed.
- [woman] Uh-oh.
689
00:45:21,917 --> 00:45:24,082
[Hershenson]
It had this little top hat.
690
00:45:24,083 --> 00:45:26,541
Like some operating systems
had little spinning wheels
691
00:45:26,542 --> 00:45:28,916
or a top hat would
just start spinning.
692
00:45:28,917 --> 00:45:30,958
And just start spinning
and just keep spinning.
693
00:45:30,959 --> 00:45:33,541
You just stare
at this ####### thing.
694
00:45:33,542 --> 00:45:36,249
Finally you just pull out the
battery and reset the device,
695
00:45:36,250 --> 00:45:38,332
because there is
no point in waiting.
696
00:45:38,333 --> 00:45:41,749
[beeping] -
[indistinct] target for re-bunking.
697
00:45:41,750 --> 00:45:44,582
[engineer] It's not my fault, is it?
It's the software engineer.
698
00:45:44,583 --> 00:45:49,207
And, you know, it's slowly dawning on us,
like we are not gonna get this done.
699
00:45:49,208 --> 00:45:52,000
[woman 1] This isn't a finished
program by any means, is it?
700
00:45:57,959 --> 00:46:01,165
[Stern] The roadshow for the
General Magic public offering
701
00:46:01,166 --> 00:46:04,791
was flying around in a private
jet, flying first class,
702
00:46:04,792 --> 00:46:10,290
staying in the best hotels and having people
sit at our feet and lap up what we were saying.
703
00:46:10,291 --> 00:46:12,624
The closest thing it comes to
is touring with a rock band.
704
00:46:12,625 --> 00:46:16,124
We've got a roadie crew that has to
set up the cameras and the big screen
705
00:46:16,125 --> 00:46:18,708
to make sure that people can see
the demonstration of the device.
706
00:46:18,709 --> 00:46:24,582
What we envisioned is something in your hand
that's with you all the time, that allows you
707
00:46:24,583 --> 00:46:29,624
to have access whether it's for fun or more
importantly for mission critical applications.
708
00:46:29,625 --> 00:46:31,332
[audience applauding]
709
00:46:31,333 --> 00:46:33,708
All we did was
demonstrate the device.
710
00:46:33,709 --> 00:46:38,791
I would go out in the hallway and I
would pretend to be an airline company
711
00:46:38,792 --> 00:46:44,165
and Marc would make an airline reservation,
and in real time, Marc would reserve a flight,
712
00:46:44,166 --> 00:46:47,666
and blow people away because no one
had ever seen anything like it.
713
00:46:47,667 --> 00:46:49,958
We've got tools,
we've got partners.
714
00:46:49,959 --> 00:46:51,541
We've got markets that are
happening all around us.
715
00:46:51,542 --> 00:46:53,624
- Give us a clap.
- [audience applauding]
716
00:46:53,625 --> 00:46:56,582
Great. That's the right stuff.
717
00:46:56,583 --> 00:47:01,332
[Stern] The roadshow succeeded beyond
everybody's wild expectations.
718
00:47:01,333 --> 00:47:04,207
The first concept public offering
in Silicon Valley history
719
00:47:04,208 --> 00:47:08,958
and we raised a total of, uh,
96 million dollars.
720
00:47:08,959 --> 00:47:10,199
That's about as good
as it gets.
721
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:17,041
We were kings of the universe,
and it was really fun.
722
00:47:19,875 --> 00:47:23,416
[Marc] Today we would call it
going viral. The press loved us.
723
00:47:23,417 --> 00:47:26,374
They heard the vision, they saw what
was going on, and whoop! They're in.
724
00:47:26,375 --> 00:47:29,708
[MacAskill] I was just afraid Marc
thought things were just too easy to do.
725
00:47:29,709 --> 00:47:32,374
How are you gonna get the price point?
How are you gonna keep it from crashing?
726
00:47:32,375 --> 00:47:34,874
How are you gonna make it fast enough?
How are you gonna make it readable?
727
00:47:34,875 --> 00:47:37,207
I just didn't think
he was focused on that stuff.
728
00:47:37,208 --> 00:47:41,207
[Tony] We were so distracted
by all the articles,
729
00:47:41,208 --> 00:47:45,416
that we started to believe
our own... our own tale.
730
00:47:45,417 --> 00:47:48,791
You know that we're gonna conquer the world,
but yet we hadn't finished.
731
00:47:48,792 --> 00:47:53,290
We were not paying attention to the other
external trends that were happening around us,
732
00:47:53,291 --> 00:47:56,541
because we were aiming so far out
in the future. It was like the...
733
00:47:56,542 --> 00:48:00,082
the current context around us really
wasn't considered that relevant,
734
00:48:00,083 --> 00:48:04,458
because we were aiming to far
out. But boy was that relevant.
735
00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:09,582
[modem connecting sound]
736
00:48:09,583 --> 00:48:13,582
[TV announcer 1] Put simply the
internet is just a network of networks.
737
00:48:13,583 --> 00:48:16,749
[TV announcer] In recent years,
a relatively unknown communication system,
738
00:48:16,750 --> 00:48:20,791
called the Internet, has exploded
in popularity with such intensity
739
00:48:20,792 --> 00:48:25,999
that it's predicted that over 25 million
people will be using it by the year 1998...
740
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,791
And we had an intern who's like,
"Hey everybody,
741
00:48:28,792 --> 00:48:32,040
it's all about the Web. You guys are totally
missing it." He was telling us this.
742
00:48:32,041 --> 00:48:36,582
It was probably late 94' early 95' and you
could go to every Website at that time.
743
00:48:36,583 --> 00:48:39,290
There was a list of them and you could
go and visit all of the Websites.
744
00:48:39,291 --> 00:48:42,874
And it was all very rough,
you know there was mostly text.
745
00:48:42,875 --> 00:48:48,290
Uh, having graphics was leading edge and we
were working on this rich multimedia system
746
00:48:48,291 --> 00:48:53,374
with audio and graphics and things
animating and the richness was far beyond
747
00:48:53,375 --> 00:48:57,791
what the web was, but the web
had... had worldwide reach.
748
00:48:57,792 --> 00:49:01,290
[Amy] This other force had appeared and
we weren't looking at it, you know.
749
00:49:01,291 --> 00:49:04,457
We were in bed with AT&T
with our private cloud.
750
00:49:04,458 --> 00:49:09,249
The whole point about having a closed
network is that people had to pay to use it,
751
00:49:09,250 --> 00:49:11,833
and that's where AT&T was going
to generate it's revenue.
752
00:49:11,834 --> 00:49:18,290
The problem was pivoting toward the World
Wide Web, that would have meant cannibalizing
753
00:49:18,291 --> 00:49:23,374
or perhaps even wrecking AT&T's business
model and we just couldn't do it.
754
00:49:23,375 --> 00:49:28,874
I have to invest the time,
the time to keep banging on the web
755
00:49:28,875 --> 00:49:34,332
with my mouse and my keyboard because unless
I do that nothing happens. The web is passive.
756
00:49:34,333 --> 00:49:37,624
[Stern] But even though it was
all here, right in front of us,
757
00:49:37,625 --> 00:49:41,500
we were unable to see
that was the way to go.
758
00:49:43,333 --> 00:49:46,542
[lively music]
759
00:49:55,667 --> 00:50:00,416
[MacAskill] One of our developers,
Pierre Omidyar, very quiet, soft spoken guy.
760
00:50:00,417 --> 00:50:04,749
He had a Webpage, and down at the bottom
it had a click through called Auction Web.
761
00:50:04,750 --> 00:50:07,082
Every once in a while
I would pass his desk
762
00:50:07,083 --> 00:50:09,624
and he would go, "Dee, come over
here, let me show you this."
763
00:50:09,625 --> 00:50:13,124
So he would show me what he was doing
and of course he explained it as
764
00:50:13,125 --> 00:50:16,374
it was gonna be kind
of a garage sale, flea market,
765
00:50:16,375 --> 00:50:21,541
kind of site. OK, why do we need
that? And so... [chuckling]
766
00:50:21,542 --> 00:50:23,916
[Stern] And he came to me and said,
"Do you wanna help grow it?
767
00:50:23,917 --> 00:50:26,916
You know, is it something you think is a
good idea? I'd like to turn it into a...
768
00:50:26,917 --> 00:50:30,374
into a company possibly. Would you help me
spin it out?" I just looked at him and said,
769
00:50:30,375 --> 00:50:33,374
"You know, this is the dumbest
idea I've ever heard.
770
00:50:33,375 --> 00:50:35,374
You're gonna get strangers to
trust each other on the Internet?
771
00:50:35,375 --> 00:50:38,457
Lots of luck. We're
not interested, have fun."
772
00:50:38,458 --> 00:50:43,916
[lively music]
773
00:50:43,917 --> 00:50:46,874
[MacAskill] He tried to get lots of
people to join and nobody would join
774
00:50:46,875 --> 00:50:50,249
'cause they just thought it was a flea market.
I took him down to an investor conference
775
00:50:50,250 --> 00:50:54,416
in Palm Springs, so I got 15 people
in there and seven of them left
776
00:50:54,417 --> 00:50:56,749
during his presentation,
because it was a long, boring presentation.
777
00:50:56,750 --> 00:50:59,499
He had this pony tail down to his waist.
He didn't look like the kind of guy
778
00:50:59,500 --> 00:51:02,916
who was the CEO of any kind of company.
Some investors said never do that to me again
779
00:51:02,917 --> 00:51:07,332
because that's flea market, you could
never make a good brand out of that.
780
00:51:07,333 --> 00:51:09,374
- And that's how eBay was launched.
- [chimes]
781
00:51:09,375 --> 00:51:12,541
[MacAskill] We had him in our
midst, and we had no idea.
782
00:51:12,542 --> 00:51:17,125
He was, he was a tech support engineer
and a very quiet guy. We had no idea.
783
00:51:19,667 --> 00:51:23,416
[Hershenson] Meanwhile we are hearing about,
you know, the partners
784
00:51:23,417 --> 00:51:26,082
need a final version
to put in the ROMS to ship.
785
00:51:26,083 --> 00:51:28,499
[Andy] Any deferral of schedule
is very politically charged,
786
00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:33,040
so what we decided to do was just remove
the schedule from that information pack.
787
00:51:33,041 --> 00:51:37,207
Sony was just, you know, insistent about
that, like, "Where is it? Where is it?"
788
00:51:37,208 --> 00:51:42,207
And there's only so many excuses you can come
up with to try to put them off to say, you know,
789
00:51:42,208 --> 00:51:46,165
"Just a little bit longer, just a little
bit longer." They're losing patience.
790
00:51:46,166 --> 00:51:48,791
[General Magic engineer] Hope to
deliver that by December 1st.
791
00:51:48,792 --> 00:51:52,916
Uh, we're still evaluating that,
to see whether we can meet that date.
792
00:51:52,917 --> 00:51:55,249
And then we started
blowing schedules.
793
00:51:55,250 --> 00:51:57,332
It's... uh,
it's in development right now.
794
00:51:57,333 --> 00:52:00,457
We expect to be delayed
by approximately one quarter.
795
00:52:00,458 --> 00:52:03,124
- What is going on here?
- [GM engineer] I've just gotten a little sick
796
00:52:03,125 --> 00:52:06,791
of all this complaining about our schedule
slips, dammit. We do a good job here.
797
00:52:06,792 --> 00:52:10,374
We are a little slow sometimes and
we have a lot of bugs, but so what?
798
00:52:10,375 --> 00:52:13,749
I started to understand where the
cracks were starting to begin
799
00:52:13,750 --> 00:52:17,499
and where we didn't have a real message,
and a real clear what we were building,
800
00:52:17,500 --> 00:52:20,249
and what we weren't building,
and for whom, and for how much
801
00:52:20,250 --> 00:52:22,666
was it gonna cost,
and when it was going to ship.
802
00:52:22,667 --> 00:52:25,499
[Andy] This is kind of the pet
shop where the animals are kept,
803
00:52:25,500 --> 00:52:28,124
and the animals have different
behavior when you pick them up.
804
00:52:28,125 --> 00:52:31,874
When I pick the cat up, it kind
of scrunches up against
805
00:52:31,875 --> 00:52:36,040
the glass and when
I drop him, he tumbles.
806
00:52:36,041 --> 00:52:39,332
[Hershenson] These really creative people,
but they would have these flights of fancy.
807
00:52:39,333 --> 00:52:41,708
I mean, they would just go off
in all kinds of crazy directions
808
00:52:41,709 --> 00:52:47,332
and they were amazing ideas, but, dudes, we
got to ship a product at the end of the day.
809
00:52:47,333 --> 00:52:51,457
And during that time,
the Newton shipped.
810
00:52:51,458 --> 00:52:53,916
[Apple engineer] Ladies
and gentleman, Newton is here.
811
00:52:53,917 --> 00:52:57,708
[Sculley] Newton was the product
that was ready to go.
812
00:52:57,709 --> 00:53:00,040
It was all about
new technologies.
813
00:53:00,041 --> 00:53:03,708
The most important thing that I've ever
been involved with in my entire life.
814
00:53:03,709 --> 00:53:06,332
[Hershenson] It's bad enough you
get betrayed by them, but now
815
00:53:06,333 --> 00:53:09,666
they're gonna try to
put you out of business.
816
00:53:09,667 --> 00:53:13,375
[ominous music]
817
00:53:16,250 --> 00:53:18,749
[Marc] There was always
something else to be tuned up,
818
00:53:18,750 --> 00:53:20,374
there was some bug
to be caught,
819
00:53:20,375 --> 00:53:22,290
there was some memory leak
to be plugged up
820
00:53:22,291 --> 00:53:25,291
and the date got later
and later and later.
821
00:53:26,041 --> 00:53:27,708
I'd made commitments.
822
00:53:27,709 --> 00:53:29,290
The company had made
commitments,
823
00:53:29,291 --> 00:53:31,582
and the commitments
were now being undone
824
00:53:31,583 --> 00:53:35,666
by our inability, or maybe
even cultural unwillingness
825
00:53:35,667 --> 00:53:38,165
to let something out the door
that wasn't like perfect.
826
00:53:38,166 --> 00:53:43,249
And I felt the first wave,
that first zap of terror.
827
00:53:43,250 --> 00:53:46,666
We were too dazzled by
what it could possibly do
828
00:53:46,667 --> 00:53:51,624
to kind of realize we were biting
off more than we could chew.
829
00:53:51,625 --> 00:53:56,207
I was still in creative mode,
working on a flipping coin,
830
00:53:56,208 --> 00:53:58,416
uh, so the game room would
have something in it.
831
00:53:58,417 --> 00:54:02,499
Whereas you tap the coin and it
would flip around heads or tails
832
00:54:02,500 --> 00:54:05,416
and gave you a random number
for feedback and all.
833
00:54:05,417 --> 00:54:09,416
And I was setting a bad example
for the team by doing stuff
834
00:54:09,417 --> 00:54:13,249
that was relatively
frivolous when we needed
835
00:54:13,250 --> 00:54:18,916
to concentrate on the boring,
uh, but necessary parts.
836
00:54:18,917 --> 00:54:24,416
And it really made me do some soul
searching that I was kind of, uh...
837
00:54:24,417 --> 00:54:27,582
leading people astray
and not having
838
00:54:27,583 --> 00:54:31,791
quite the right, uh,
seriousness of our situation.
839
00:54:31,792 --> 00:54:35,999
[Adler] The deadline is everything,
meet this date or miss your opportunity
840
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,457
to change the world.
841
00:54:37,458 --> 00:54:39,165
I don't think we had
anyone saying that.
842
00:54:39,166 --> 00:54:44,082
I was like,
"Huh... OK, I'm not crazy,
843
00:54:44,083 --> 00:54:47,458
I love all the people I work with,
but something ain't right."
844
00:54:49,417 --> 00:54:53,124
My heroes, these icons,
that I know as people now,
845
00:54:53,125 --> 00:54:55,833
how are they letting
this happen?
846
00:54:55,834 --> 00:54:57,457
Don't they see? Don't...
847
00:54:57,458 --> 00:54:59,541
Aren't they listening?
Kind of like parents, right?
848
00:54:59,542 --> 00:55:02,791
At some point when you grow up,
your parents can do no wrong,
849
00:55:02,792 --> 00:55:05,582
and then they can only do wrong.
It was kind of that same thing.
850
00:55:05,583 --> 00:55:09,332
I grew up as a person,
and these people who I saw
851
00:55:09,333 --> 00:55:13,040
as parents and as educators
started to become
852
00:55:13,041 --> 00:55:17,624
you know, humans as well
in my eye, not just icons.
853
00:55:17,625 --> 00:55:21,666
And that's when it kind of flipped
for me like, "I can't just follow
854
00:55:21,667 --> 00:55:25,500
the leader anymore. You need
to be a leader yourself."
855
00:55:35,041 --> 00:55:39,916
[Marc] One night, Sunday I think,
and I walk into the building and I hear
856
00:55:39,917 --> 00:55:44,124
slam, slam, bang, bang, bang.
No idea what was going on, no idea.
857
00:55:44,125 --> 00:55:47,541
And just banging away building
what looked to me like bunk beds.
858
00:55:47,542 --> 00:55:50,874
I said, "Guys, what, what are you doing
here?" They said, "We're building bunk beds."
859
00:55:50,875 --> 00:55:55,874
Why do you need to build a bunk bed in your
office? Why don't you go home to sleep?
860
00:55:55,875 --> 00:55:58,666
[Tony] We had to go up against it,
pull it together to get
861
00:55:58,667 --> 00:56:02,332
something out the door.
We've got to get serious.
862
00:56:02,333 --> 00:56:04,582
[Megan] I remember like sleeping on,
you know, some random
863
00:56:04,583 --> 00:56:07,249
mattress on the floor,
we didn't care about all this,
864
00:56:07,250 --> 00:56:10,374
we didn't care whether we had furniture or
anything, we were just doing this thing.
865
00:56:10,375 --> 00:56:13,874
[Kevin] So we're just working all out all the
time, uh, and I... I was actually sleeping
866
00:56:13,875 --> 00:56:17,874
under my desk sometimes and then I would get
up in the morning and just start working again.
867
00:56:17,875 --> 00:56:22,082
[Stern] It's night time, people are
clustered around a handful of machines.
868
00:56:22,083 --> 00:56:25,582
The rabbits are running around under
their feet, the parrot is squawking
869
00:56:25,583 --> 00:56:27,791
and shitting all the time.
It smelled horrible.
870
00:56:27,792 --> 00:56:34,791
[chuckles] Uh, it... it was dank,
musty, you know it smelt of sweat
871
00:56:34,792 --> 00:56:40,749
and exhaustion and no one
wanted to be anywhere else.
872
00:56:40,750 --> 00:56:43,916
We'll have it, we'll have it
tomorrow morning, alright? So...
873
00:56:43,917 --> 00:56:47,541
[Stern] Every single one of us,
it was all hands on deck, ship or die.
874
00:56:47,542 --> 00:56:49,708
[Hershenson] There was this
constant drum beat of,
875
00:56:49,709 --> 00:56:53,249
"We have to ship, we have
to ship, we have to ship."
876
00:56:53,250 --> 00:56:56,249
[Stern] In terms of intensity and
pressure it was the best of times
877
00:56:56,250 --> 00:56:59,958
and it was the worst of times. In some
ways we were never closer to each other
878
00:56:59,959 --> 00:57:04,791
and we never felt better about what we
were doing, because we were getting there.
879
00:57:04,792 --> 00:57:07,249
- [woman] My fingers?
- [engineer] Uh-huh. Both hands.
880
00:57:07,250 --> 00:57:10,374
- [woman] That'll never work.
- [engineer] One finger at the other end.
881
00:57:10,375 --> 00:57:12,791
- [keyboard clicking]
- [woman laughing]
882
00:57:12,792 --> 00:57:15,916
[man] It's quick, it's...
there's a pleasing pace to it.
883
00:57:15,917 --> 00:57:18,624
- [engineer] A little better? OK.
- [man 4] Yeah, much better, much better.
884
00:57:18,625 --> 00:57:21,165
[Megan] It's this
incredible experience
885
00:57:21,166 --> 00:57:24,916
of sort of all these different people
working, you know, like a symphony.
886
00:57:24,917 --> 00:57:28,457
[Tony] This thing that we
imagined, now has become real.
887
00:57:28,458 --> 00:57:32,749
[Hershenson] We've done it, and now you can
see it and touch it and use it as well.
888
00:57:32,750 --> 00:57:36,791
[Tony] It's time to ship.
We need to get this out.
889
00:57:36,792 --> 00:57:39,624
[Adler] It was one in the morning,
everyone was there,
890
00:57:39,625 --> 00:57:41,165
everyone was exhausted.
891
00:57:41,166 --> 00:57:42,708
It was a classic decision
892
00:57:42,709 --> 00:57:45,290
that every project has
to make like, go or no go.
893
00:57:45,291 --> 00:57:50,666
So here we all were, in it together and
saying like, "Is this it, are we done?"
894
00:57:50,667 --> 00:57:53,708
[Hershenson] Marc Porat said, "Anyone
could speak about whether we should ship.
895
00:57:53,709 --> 00:57:58,541
Is the software ready?" And a ton of
engineers said, "We should wait."
896
00:57:58,542 --> 00:58:03,542
Marc listened and he said, "Our partners
have given us a deadline, we're shipping."
897
00:58:10,917 --> 00:58:14,999
So welcome to the first public demonstration
of... of General Magic's technologies.
898
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:19,290
I wanna talk a little bit about, um, you know,
we worked really hard the last four years
899
00:58:19,291 --> 00:58:23,708
putting all this stuff together.
Uh, I feel, you know, emotional about it.
900
00:58:23,709 --> 00:58:27,666
- Uh, people, uh, people...
- [audience applauding]
901
00:58:27,667 --> 00:58:31,916
- What I wanna do is, uh, is talk about the, uh...
- [audience applauding]
902
00:58:31,917 --> 00:58:35,874
The incredible... the best part of working on
this the last four years is not the invention,
903
00:58:35,875 --> 00:58:39,499
I... I love helping create this stuff,
but the best part was working
904
00:58:39,500 --> 00:58:41,791
with the incredible team that we
have assembled at General Magic.
905
00:58:41,792 --> 00:58:46,124
This isn't the work of just me and Bill,
but the work of some incredibly brilliant,
906
00:58:46,125 --> 00:58:50,249
passionate people that I'm honored to be
able to work with and I think these guys
907
00:58:50,250 --> 00:58:53,290
these... We're working with a bunch of
young programmers in their twenties
908
00:58:53,291 --> 00:58:57,666
that are going to go on to do things that
dwarf anything that Bill and I have ever done.
909
00:58:57,667 --> 00:59:03,999
They are just incredibly great and so, without
further ado, with, uh, great pride, uh,
910
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,457
and representing Bill and...
and the amazing team at General Magic,
911
00:59:07,458 --> 00:59:10,249
here it is world, Magic Cap.
912
00:59:10,250 --> 00:59:13,624
[SONY commercial] It's a new way to
reach just about anyone - [beeping]
913
00:59:13,625 --> 00:59:16,708
- ...anywhere, anytime.
- [beeping]
914
00:59:16,709 --> 00:59:18,874
You're only a press
of a button away.
915
00:59:18,875 --> 00:59:22,833
[beeping] - Sony Magic Link,
and what it takes off your desk
916
00:59:22,834 --> 00:59:26,582
is only matched,
by what it takes off your mind.
917
00:59:26,583 --> 00:59:32,666
Sony Magic Link Intelligent Communicator.
It clears your desk, it clears your mind."
918
00:59:32,667 --> 00:59:35,416
[Kevin] Still so very disturbing when you,
when you work on something for so long
919
00:59:35,417 --> 00:59:38,290
and then you let it out into the world.
It's like having this baby
920
00:59:38,291 --> 00:59:42,082
and like, have you raised it well enough?
Is it going to be okay on its own out there?
921
00:59:42,083 --> 00:59:45,249
Uhm, it's a little traumatic,
actually to let something out like that.
922
00:59:45,250 --> 00:59:50,208
[audience cheering, clapping]
923
00:59:56,125 --> 00:59:58,791
Hey, these really belong to you,
somebody asked me that. They are yours!
924
00:59:58,792 --> 01:00:01,416
- [laughter]
- [audience applauding]
925
01:00:01,417 --> 01:00:05,958
[Marc] Whatever doubts we had or whatever
disagreements or anything, we were on.
926
01:00:05,959 --> 01:00:09,416
We were, this was the moment,
this was the launch.
927
01:00:09,417 --> 01:00:12,709
We were gonna make it, we were gonna
succeed and it was gonna be amazing.
928
01:00:17,917 --> 01:00:22,207
[Marc] So, what are we doing?
Today we are making the first steps.
929
01:00:22,208 --> 01:00:26,792
This afternoon it's out there, the devices
are out there and the service is out there.
930
01:00:30,500 --> 01:00:33,874
[Stern] We had arranged to have
a demonstration day at Fry's,
931
01:00:33,875 --> 01:00:37,082
a famous place
for new product introductions.
932
01:00:37,083 --> 01:00:40,082
And a few famous people from Apple came,
just out of courtesy.
933
01:00:40,083 --> 01:00:43,708
We went into the store and all of the, all of
the demonstration stuff was way in the back,
934
01:00:43,709 --> 01:00:48,082
behind the refrigerators, you couldn't see
anything. It became clear that the Fry's staff
935
01:00:48,083 --> 01:00:51,833
had not been trained on how to
demonstrate the devices, or even knew
936
01:00:51,834 --> 01:00:55,708
what they were or who we were,
or why we were there.
937
01:00:55,709 --> 01:00:59,582
[Amy] We talked about
our user as being Joe Sixpack.
938
01:00:59,583 --> 01:01:05,457
And I do remember sitting around thinking, "You
know, Joe Sixpack really doesn't have email."
939
01:01:05,458 --> 01:01:09,624
And if that was our target,
it was very early for... for Joe Sixpack.
940
01:01:09,625 --> 01:01:12,249
[MacAskill] I worried about the size,
I worried about the battery life,
941
01:01:12,250 --> 01:01:13,916
I worried about the 800 dollars.
942
01:01:13,917 --> 01:01:15,666
I don't even know
which button to push.
943
01:01:15,667 --> 01:01:18,457
No, I don't need that.
[laughter]
944
01:01:18,458 --> 01:01:19,958
- [reporter] You might need it.
- I don't.
945
01:01:19,959 --> 01:01:22,916
What it really comes down to
is a personal decision
946
01:01:22,917 --> 01:01:25,750
as to whether or not you really
wanna be in touch all the time.
947
01:01:30,083 --> 01:01:35,749
[Stern] My stomach turned sour
and I thought we're doomed.
948
01:01:35,750 --> 01:01:42,082
No one came, no one
bought it. Nothing.
949
01:01:42,083 --> 01:01:47,374
[Marc] And so we are waiting for the sales
to happen and the sales numbers were low.
950
01:01:47,375 --> 01:01:51,624
Very low, and there were some problems
with the AT&T Network. So bit by bit
951
01:01:51,625 --> 01:01:54,749
we began to get evidence that this
thing wasn't gonna rocket right,
952
01:01:54,750 --> 01:01:59,833
it was gonna be more difficult, and that's
the reality that starts to sink in,
953
01:01:59,834 --> 01:02:01,958
is that, this is not
as easy as it seems.
954
01:02:01,959 --> 01:02:05,374
We had sold fewer than 3000
devices, and almost all of those
955
01:02:05,375 --> 01:02:08,833
had been sold to friends and family
of the company and our partners.
956
01:02:08,834 --> 01:02:12,082
Virtually none
to ordinary consumers.
957
01:02:12,083 --> 01:02:15,374
I was looking at the list
of the names of the buyers
958
01:02:15,375 --> 01:02:19,457
and I recognized all of them,
I knew who they were, and I thought
959
01:02:19,458 --> 01:02:23,917
that we don't have a business here,
we are not gonna make it.
960
01:02:33,667 --> 01:02:36,666
[Marc] Share price, that's I think,
the greatest concern in this room and that's
961
01:02:36,667 --> 01:02:38,624
what we're going to take on,
head on.
962
01:02:38,625 --> 01:02:42,040
The explosion of the Internet has
forced a rethinking of strategies
963
01:02:42,041 --> 01:02:43,499
across the entire industry.
964
01:02:43,500 --> 01:02:45,958
I have believed for years,
and continue to believe,
965
01:02:45,959 --> 01:02:50,165
that the notion of taking
intelligent devices with you,
966
01:02:50,166 --> 01:02:53,791
of the scale from this big
967
01:02:53,792 --> 01:02:56,958
to that small
is for real as a market.
968
01:02:56,959 --> 01:02:59,124
I continue to believe
in the wireless dimension,
969
01:02:59,125 --> 01:03:02,124
there will be smart phones,
there will be smart pagers,
970
01:03:02,125 --> 01:03:04,916
and maybe even things like
intelligent watches, for all we know.
971
01:03:04,917 --> 01:03:10,165
It's a question of resources,
priorities and market readiness,
972
01:03:10,166 --> 01:03:12,374
uh, for us to figure out
where the sweet spot is. We...
973
01:03:12,375 --> 01:03:15,666
- [Heckler] Can we make some money while this is going on?
- [Marc chuckles]
974
01:03:15,667 --> 01:03:18,499
[Hershenson] This guy from the San
Francisco Chronicle, I mean, I remember
975
01:03:18,500 --> 01:03:20,666
he just drilled me.
He was like,
976
01:03:20,667 --> 01:03:23,582
"You guys are going
out of business.
977
01:03:23,583 --> 01:03:29,124
Sony is going to drop you.
I have sources that have told me that.
978
01:03:29,125 --> 01:03:31,833
What is the company's response?
979
01:03:31,834 --> 01:03:35,249
What happens
when Sony drops you?
980
01:03:35,250 --> 01:03:38,541
You guys are dead."
981
01:03:38,542 --> 01:03:40,999
It's like, dude, you didn't work
here for three and a half years,
982
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:42,999
pulling all-nighters,
seven days a week.
983
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:45,207
You didn't see the future
and know what's coming
984
01:03:45,208 --> 01:03:49,999
and, and now it's all
just in ashes around you.
985
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:53,499
[Stern] I'm looking
at spreadsheets, in my office
986
01:03:53,500 --> 01:03:56,791
and thinking, "In a half hour I'm
gonna have to get on the phone
987
01:03:56,792 --> 01:04:01,040
and talk to the analyst from Goldman Sachs
and I don't know what the hell I'm gonna say.
988
01:04:01,041 --> 01:04:04,040
How do I create the impression
that there is a future here."
989
01:04:04,041 --> 01:04:06,374
Marc did it,
but, uh, I was at a loss.
990
01:04:06,375 --> 01:04:10,999
The initial experience is terrific,
and where we are headed
991
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:14,958
is sublime, and to get from
terrific to sublime takes time.
992
01:04:14,959 --> 01:04:17,874
- [Hoffman] I don't want to be negative.
- Why is this tilted?
993
01:04:17,875 --> 01:04:20,457
- [cameraman] It's not titled.
- [Hoffman] It's been a lot of hype.
994
01:04:20,458 --> 01:04:24,249
I would not say that in the video.
Where we are starting, as exciting as it is,
995
01:04:24,250 --> 01:04:26,541
is not where we are going
to end up. This will take time.
996
01:04:26,542 --> 01:04:30,457
It's a voyage that takes time, it's a journey
that takes time. This will take time.
997
01:04:30,458 --> 01:04:32,999
It takes time.
You have to be patient.
998
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:34,499
[Hoffman] Perfect,
absolutely perfect.
999
01:04:34,500 --> 01:04:36,207
You know, I just thought
as you were talking
1000
01:04:36,208 --> 01:04:37,999
how complicated it is
for you to be figuring out
1001
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:39,999
- what you can and can't say.
- Yeah, it's true. [chuckles]
1002
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:41,541
It's a whole other issue
I wasn't thinking about.
1003
01:04:41,542 --> 01:04:46,040
[Hoffman indistinct]
1004
01:04:46,041 --> 01:04:48,500
I was torn up, it was...
1005
01:04:51,417 --> 01:04:55,499
To walk in, there was a week, you know,
Phil actually had to set me aside
1006
01:04:55,500 --> 01:05:01,165
because I was so distraught, that there was
a week or two that I actually just took off.
1007
01:05:01,166 --> 01:05:03,916
I didn't even show up for work
because I was so distraught.
1008
01:05:03,917 --> 01:05:08,082
And then Phil actually had to sit me down
and go, "Tony what's wrong? You're not you."
1009
01:05:08,083 --> 01:05:14,249
Like to go from 80,
120 hours a week to none.
1010
01:05:14,250 --> 01:05:18,332
And so for me personally that
was a major rocking event.
1011
01:05:18,333 --> 01:05:23,290
Then the next one disappointment for me is,
you know, I started design devices
1012
01:05:23,291 --> 01:05:26,958
and I started to try to mold
General Magic technology
1013
01:05:26,959 --> 01:05:30,624
into something
that I thought was sellable.
1014
01:05:30,625 --> 01:05:34,249
And so I created basically a whole
product plan, and technology plan
1015
01:05:34,250 --> 01:05:36,874
for what I thought was going
to be a successful product.
1016
01:05:36,875 --> 01:05:39,958
I go back to General Magic, I said,
"Look I have a firmed up product plan,
1017
01:05:39,959 --> 01:05:43,541
you need to mold your software to build this
kind of device." And they just looked at me
1018
01:05:43,542 --> 01:05:48,542
and said, "Sorry, we can't do that.
We have other priorities."
1019
01:05:51,333 --> 01:05:57,290
For General Magic, as I saw it,
was, basically the end.
1020
01:05:57,291 --> 01:06:01,457
They were defeated.
That was the saddest part about that meeting,
1021
01:06:01,458 --> 01:06:05,999
is that, and Andy in particular
I think was the one who said,
1022
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:11,416
"We're not gonna... we can't do this.
We're not going to do it," and...
1023
01:06:11,417 --> 01:06:13,709
they just didn't...
They didn't have anything left.
1024
01:06:16,750 --> 01:06:19,582
[Kevin] I am a particularly loyal person,
so it was, it was
1025
01:06:19,583 --> 01:06:21,541
very hard for me
to leave General Magic.
1026
01:06:21,542 --> 01:06:24,332
I was fully bought into
what we were doing, uhm,
1027
01:06:24,333 --> 01:06:28,708
and I stayed perhaps even longer than
maybe I ought to have, to try to help
1028
01:06:28,709 --> 01:06:31,207
change the direction, uhm,
1029
01:06:31,208 --> 01:06:35,083
but it was, it was beyond,
uhm, saving, unfortunately.
1030
01:06:36,667 --> 01:06:39,749
[Stern] It looked like
a massive disaster,
1031
01:06:39,750 --> 01:06:42,332
a failure, a catastrophe.
1032
01:06:42,333 --> 01:06:45,833
It was a sense of rejection that
penetrated right to your heart
1033
01:06:45,834 --> 01:06:49,208
and your gut,
and I... I just felt sick.
1034
01:07:07,750 --> 01:07:12,499
[Joanna] It was, uh, devastating.
For me it was, it was really devastating
1035
01:07:12,500 --> 01:07:17,040
and, uh, I thought immediately,
"I have to take time off.
1036
01:07:17,041 --> 01:07:22,207
It's... it's going to be a long
time before I start committing
1037
01:07:22,208 --> 01:07:28,750
to yet another blue sky,
uh, proposition."
1038
01:07:30,417 --> 01:07:34,040
[Stern] The vision that
Marc, Bill and Andy had sold,
1039
01:07:34,041 --> 01:07:37,582
not just to the world,
but to us,
1040
01:07:37,583 --> 01:07:41,165
that this was a cool, fun,
1041
01:07:41,166 --> 01:07:45,750
lovely thing to have, and that everybody
would want one because we did.
1042
01:07:46,792 --> 01:07:48,250
And we were wrong.
1043
01:07:57,291 --> 01:08:00,917
[whimsical music]
1044
01:08:08,542 --> 01:08:13,624
[Swisher] I think the conceptual ideas
were there, the user base was not there,
1045
01:08:13,625 --> 01:08:17,624
the technology was not there,
the things to do on it were not there,
1046
01:08:17,625 --> 01:08:20,165
it's like inventing the television
in the 1880's, you just couldn't.
1047
01:08:20,166 --> 01:08:23,624
Like it doesn't matter if you invented
it because you didn't have shows,
1048
01:08:23,625 --> 01:08:25,791
you didn't have capabilities.
1049
01:08:25,792 --> 01:08:29,165
I think there was actually nothing
General Magic could have done
1050
01:08:29,166 --> 01:08:32,874
to succeed, because they were
at the wrong time.
1051
01:08:32,875 --> 01:08:38,332
The way I think about that, it's like a wave.
If you start paddling too early
1052
01:08:38,333 --> 01:08:40,999
your arms will be tired
by the time the wave arrives,
1053
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:43,916
and the wave will slide right
under you and leave you behind.
1054
01:08:43,917 --> 01:08:47,791
That's sort of what happened with General
Magic. They saw the wave before anyone else,
1055
01:08:47,792 --> 01:08:52,290
and they thought it was coming sooner
and they got tired before it arrived.
1056
01:08:52,291 --> 01:08:54,875
Yeah, but they had
all the right talent.
1057
01:08:57,333 --> 01:09:00,082
[Sculley] You can become
so focused, and such a believer
1058
01:09:00,083 --> 01:09:04,666
in what you are doing that you can miss
the change of context in an industry.
1059
01:09:04,667 --> 01:09:09,833
In this case, the World Wide Web and
General Magic probably didn't pivot,
1060
01:09:09,834 --> 01:09:15,374
uh, fast enough to the post world after
the Web, but I missed it as well.
1061
01:09:15,375 --> 01:09:17,916
I was getting increased
pressure as a CEO of Apple,
1062
01:09:17,917 --> 01:09:22,499
by the Apple board, you know,
why was I wasting Apple's time and money
1063
01:09:22,500 --> 01:09:26,165
on these post PC devices and not
just focusing on the Macintosh.
1064
01:09:26,166 --> 01:09:28,834
The result? I eventually
got fired by Apple.
1065
01:09:37,041 --> 01:09:41,708
I learned from failure how incredibly
painful it can be when you fail publicly.
1066
01:09:41,709 --> 01:09:44,332
It wasn't just the little failures,
but, you know, I had to fail
1067
01:09:44,333 --> 01:09:47,541
in front of the whole world
when I was fired from Apple.
1068
01:09:47,542 --> 01:09:51,165
It really hurt me for a long,
long time, and it wasn't
1069
01:09:51,166 --> 01:09:55,709
till about 15 years later that I could
actually get my head around and deal with it.
1070
01:10:01,375 --> 01:10:04,374
But the stories of Silicon
Valley are always the stories
1071
01:10:04,375 --> 01:10:08,290
of these incredibly
successful companies,
1072
01:10:08,291 --> 01:10:11,541
and yet here is a company,
General Magic,
1073
01:10:11,542 --> 01:10:15,958
that wasn't commercially successful
and eventually went bankrupt,
1074
01:10:15,959 --> 01:10:20,582
and yet so much of what came out
of General Magic
1075
01:10:20,583 --> 01:10:24,333
is the foundation of everything
we take for granted today.
1076
01:10:35,667 --> 01:10:39,249
[Joanna] Failure doesn't...
doesn't stop me as long as it's
1077
01:10:39,250 --> 01:10:42,582
on a path towards
something really wonderful.
1078
01:10:42,583 --> 01:10:47,124
But with General Magic there was a
certain deflation in me personally,
1079
01:10:47,125 --> 01:10:52,332
where I felt like, uh, "Will I be able
to do this one more time? I'm not sure."
1080
01:10:52,333 --> 01:10:57,708
Because the potential was so phenomenal
and you could see this is going to happen.
1081
01:10:57,709 --> 01:11:01,499
You know that this is going
to happen, and you realize
1082
01:11:01,500 --> 01:11:04,541
you're not gonna be the one
that makes it happen.
1083
01:11:04,542 --> 01:11:08,624
It's even more comprehensive
than I remembered.
1084
01:11:08,625 --> 01:11:10,791
Yeah.
1085
01:11:10,792 --> 01:11:16,916
[chuckles] Now that I look at it,
I think, what were we thinking?
1086
01:11:16,917 --> 01:11:19,541
We were trying to do all this?
1087
01:11:19,542 --> 01:11:21,624
And, you know...
1088
01:11:21,625 --> 01:11:25,207
And we thought we could push the industry,
we could make them do it.
1089
01:11:25,208 --> 01:11:30,958
Mm...
Not there, it wasn't there.
1090
01:11:30,959 --> 01:11:35,375
[emotional music]
1091
01:11:45,917 --> 01:11:51,124
I'm old enough now to know that it's
behind me, you know, it's... it's, uh...
1092
01:11:51,125 --> 01:11:53,749
To create technical revolution
1093
01:11:53,750 --> 01:11:58,290
is... is really a game for people
in their, in their twenties.
1094
01:11:58,291 --> 01:12:02,500
The stamina, you're also not
as contaminated by the past.
1095
01:12:12,542 --> 01:12:14,541
More than anything else
it makes me feel old.
1096
01:12:14,542 --> 01:12:19,541
[chuckles]
That, uh, stuff I... I worked on
1097
01:12:19,542 --> 01:12:24,083
or bought, you know, is... are...
they are now museum pieces.
1098
01:12:28,500 --> 01:12:32,917
Yeah, so there is a General Magic device,
the Sony Magic Link.
1099
01:12:36,959 --> 01:12:40,416
Now I have thought about it a lot,
there is a whole litany of things,
1100
01:12:40,417 --> 01:12:42,708
uh, we should have
done differently.
1101
01:12:42,709 --> 01:12:47,416
A lot of blunders that I'm
personally responsible for.
1102
01:12:47,417 --> 01:12:51,374
It was completely possible
to achieve the most ambitious
1103
01:12:51,375 --> 01:12:54,917
of our visions, uh,
but in a staged fashion.
1104
01:13:01,750 --> 01:13:05,749
[Marc] We sometimes need closure
on things that are not closeable.
1105
01:13:05,750 --> 01:13:11,082
A peak experience, positive or negative
happens, it's not easy to resolve.
1106
01:13:11,083 --> 01:13:17,624
In the moment we all do the best we
can do in the moment, at that moment.
1107
01:13:17,625 --> 01:13:20,625
It's in retrospect that you see
what the impact was.
1108
01:13:22,583 --> 01:13:26,458
I felt, a profound
feeling of humiliation.
1109
01:13:29,250 --> 01:13:33,916
Shame that I had brought everyone
along with such high anticipation
1110
01:13:33,917 --> 01:13:37,207
and then couldn't at the end,
deliver it for them,
1111
01:13:37,208 --> 01:13:39,458
and for myself, and for them.
1112
01:13:44,792 --> 01:13:51,749
So I remember coming home one evening,
so the kids were still up.
1113
01:13:51,750 --> 01:13:58,124
"Daddy." And daddy had given
it all to perfect strangers.
1114
01:13:58,125 --> 01:14:01,958
[mother speaking indistinct]
1115
01:14:01,959 --> 01:14:07,541
And my wife said,
"Don't come home like this."
1116
01:14:07,542 --> 01:14:09,499
[filmmaker] Can you, Marc
slide over to your right,
1117
01:14:09,500 --> 01:14:11,500
so you are not
bracketing the plate.
1118
01:14:13,750 --> 01:14:16,958
[Marc] "If you need to sit
in your car, for hours
1119
01:14:16,959 --> 01:14:20,624
or for all night,
don't come back.
1120
01:14:20,625 --> 01:14:24,499
Don't walk in the door if you're not
a person, if you're not present,
1121
01:14:24,500 --> 01:14:27,667
because, you're not wanted."
1122
01:14:32,417 --> 01:14:35,708
And you know in... in...
it collapsed,
1123
01:14:35,709 --> 01:14:42,624
it all came tumbling down, and the company
didn't work, and my marriage didn't work,
1124
01:14:42,625 --> 01:14:45,083
in the same 12 month period,
you know.
1125
01:14:46,792 --> 01:14:48,667
And it all fell apart.
1126
01:14:52,667 --> 01:14:53,291
Yeah.
1127
01:14:53,292 --> 01:14:56,667
[melancholic music]
1128
01:15:00,875 --> 01:15:03,666
[interviewer] Have you
told your children about this?
1129
01:15:03,667 --> 01:15:06,582
Well I'm talking to them now,
aren't I? [chuckles]
1130
01:15:06,583 --> 01:15:08,750
It's one of the reasons
I agreed to make this film.
1131
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:19,958
Life is ebbs and flows,
when a wave crashes on the shores
1132
01:15:19,959 --> 01:15:24,457
and the rocks hear,
you don't think of the wave as having failed.
1133
01:15:24,458 --> 01:15:29,791
You think of the wave as having done its thing
and the next wave will come and the next wave,
1134
01:15:29,792 --> 01:15:33,250
and that's how I think of
General Magic. A moment in time.
1135
01:15:38,542 --> 01:15:43,290
[Sculley] It always amazed me, because I
haven't seen Marc in many, many years,
1136
01:15:43,291 --> 01:15:47,332
you know, why there wasn't
a second act.
1137
01:15:47,333 --> 01:15:51,040
Because here is an individual
who was so good,
1138
01:15:51,041 --> 01:15:53,708
so exceptional
at what he did well.
1139
01:15:53,709 --> 01:15:56,916
Brought together
perhaps the best team
1140
01:15:56,917 --> 01:15:58,916
and the reality is,
in my mind Marc never failed,
1141
01:15:58,917 --> 01:16:03,708
you know, because he actually
did conceptualize
1142
01:16:03,709 --> 01:16:07,166
so many of the products
that we have today.
1143
01:16:12,750 --> 01:16:17,999
It was a decade of failure
in Silicon Valley for me.
1144
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:23,582
General Magic was a disaster, Phillips was a
critical success, but a business disaster.
1145
01:16:23,583 --> 01:16:28,165
Then I had my start up and then, you know,
during the start up times the Internet crunch
1146
01:16:28,166 --> 01:16:31,332
happened and I couldn't get any more
funding and that was a disaster.
1147
01:16:31,333 --> 01:16:35,624
So it was a disaster after disaster
from a business perspective.
1148
01:16:35,625 --> 01:16:39,791
But from a personal perspective it
caused me to grow up each time,
1149
01:16:39,792 --> 01:16:44,416
and learn because I was faced
with this real reality
1150
01:16:44,417 --> 01:16:49,958
of like, this isn't working and you
better understand why and learn from it.
1151
01:16:49,959 --> 01:16:53,624
Because I had to go through that to be
able to set my... to set the stage up
1152
01:16:53,625 --> 01:16:56,375
for what was to come
in 2001 and beyond.
1153
01:16:59,959 --> 01:17:04,875
[lively electronic music]
1154
01:17:11,083 --> 01:17:14,624
[Tony] General Magic gave us a
glimpse of what the future could be.
1155
01:17:14,625 --> 01:17:17,666
The technology unfortunately
wasn't there at the time,
1156
01:17:17,667 --> 01:17:20,834
but those dreams,
we kept dreaming.
1157
01:17:24,166 --> 01:17:29,040
[Dee] Tony is very big on music and he
would talk about music a lot and how,
1158
01:17:29,041 --> 01:17:32,999
how someday we were gonna have,
you know, a little device
1159
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:39,708
with all our music on it and I'm
like, "OK, why do I need that?"
1160
01:17:39,709 --> 01:17:42,874
[Tony] I loved music growing up in Detroit,
and I was always sick
1161
01:17:42,875 --> 01:17:46,124
and tired of lugging my CD's and
all this other stuff around.
1162
01:17:46,125 --> 01:17:48,708
I wanted something where
I could take it all the time.
1163
01:17:48,709 --> 01:17:52,541
MP3 showed up.
I was like, music is coming.
1164
01:17:52,542 --> 01:17:58,082
Next thing I know I get a call, "We've looked
at all the MP3 players, we think they are bad.
1165
01:17:58,083 --> 01:18:00,749
We think there is one that can
be done in the Apple way."
1166
01:18:00,750 --> 01:18:05,416
And then Steve said, "Now we need you to
come on the team to put it together."
1167
01:18:05,417 --> 01:18:08,040
And then I started calling
all kinds of companies
1168
01:18:08,041 --> 01:18:11,249
all around the valley, around world.
Trying to figure out displays
1169
01:18:11,250 --> 01:18:13,582
trying to figure out batteries,
trying to figure out storage
1170
01:18:13,583 --> 01:18:17,040
and then Steve was able, and the team
was able to build on top of those
1171
01:18:17,041 --> 01:18:20,874
and make it even better,
and so we were like, it's happening.
1172
01:18:20,875 --> 01:18:22,999
[Steve Jobs] Boom, that's iPod.
I happen to have one right here
1173
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:26,040
in my pocket, as a matter of
fact. There it is, right there.
1174
01:18:26,041 --> 01:18:29,833
[Tony] The Magic lesson was,
we have to ship it as fast as possible
1175
01:18:29,834 --> 01:18:33,082
so you could learn from the market
and you can iterate quickly.
1176
01:18:33,083 --> 01:18:35,916
Every year we made sure we had
a new version of the iPod.
1177
01:18:35,917 --> 01:18:38,290
And then we added
downloadable apps,
1178
01:18:38,291 --> 01:18:41,874
games, email,
communications, wireless.
1179
01:18:41,875 --> 01:18:45,541
We had these different pieces and I'm
like this is starting to come together.
1180
01:18:45,542 --> 01:18:49,582
I remember this,
and it was like I was back at General Magic
1181
01:18:49,583 --> 01:18:56,082
again in a way, because it's what we
talked about, just 15 years later.
1182
01:18:56,083 --> 01:18:59,124
This is real, Steve goes,
1183
01:18:59,125 --> 01:19:02,917
"It's taking off, we need
to put it on a cellphone."
1184
01:19:07,166 --> 01:19:11,291
[Steve Jobs] Today Apple is
going to reinvent the phone.
1185
01:19:12,792 --> 01:19:15,542
And here it is.
This is one device.
1186
01:19:17,208 --> 01:19:22,040
This has been, at that point,
17 years in Silicon Valley,
1187
01:19:22,041 --> 01:19:24,791
and we were finally able
to realize the dream we had
1188
01:19:24,792 --> 01:19:28,999
in 1991 on stage
and Steve Jobs talking about it.
1189
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:31,249
We're going to use the best
pointing device in the world.
1190
01:19:31,250 --> 01:19:34,249
We're going to use a pointing
device that we are all born with,
1191
01:19:34,250 --> 01:19:37,916
we're born with ten of them,
we are going to use our fingers.
1192
01:19:37,917 --> 01:19:42,833
So, let's go ahead
and turn it on, alrighty.
1193
01:19:42,834 --> 01:19:47,207
[Stern] I was proud to think that,
"Yeah, my god, we did it."
1194
01:19:47,208 --> 01:19:51,958
Tony did it. Everything
we wanted to do, there it is.
1195
01:19:51,959 --> 01:19:55,833
and on the other hand,
I was sad that it wasn't us.
1196
01:19:55,834 --> 01:19:59,874
But I also felt vindicated
in some way.
1197
01:19:59,875 --> 01:20:03,083
That the ideas had been right,
the timing had been wrong.
1198
01:20:05,583 --> 01:20:09,749
[Andy] Steve would often call me after
like the big product introductions,
1199
01:20:09,750 --> 01:20:15,165
just to see what I thought. 4:00 p.m. I
was in my office, I got a call from Steve.
1200
01:20:15,166 --> 01:20:17,332
He said, "What do you think,
what do you think?"
1201
01:20:17,333 --> 01:20:21,999
And it was like the worst cell
phone connection I've ever heard.
1202
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:27,332
You know it was all like,
you could hear Steve, say:
1203
01:20:27,333 --> 01:20:32,124
So the first thing I ask him, I said,
"Are you talking on an iPhone?"
1204
01:20:32,125 --> 01:20:35,207
He goes, "No, no, no."
But I think he was.
1205
01:20:35,208 --> 01:20:38,833
Steve told me on the phone,
he thought a lot about Magic Cap
1206
01:20:38,834 --> 01:20:41,374
during the course
of the iPhone development,
1207
01:20:41,375 --> 01:20:46,040
and in particular mentioned the
projected keyboard, he had seen that
1208
01:20:46,041 --> 01:20:48,791
and used it with Magic Cap
and that gave him faith
1209
01:20:48,792 --> 01:20:51,874
that, that was the right
direction to go.
1210
01:20:51,875 --> 01:20:54,124
- Hey Zarko.
- Hi, Andy.
1211
01:20:54,125 --> 01:20:56,874
Hi, I'm in the middle of giving a
demo of Magic Cap for cellphones.
1212
01:20:56,875 --> 01:20:59,332
It's really exciting,
it's working great.
1213
01:20:59,333 --> 01:21:01,499
- You guys... You guys did a great job.
- It's incredible.
1214
01:21:01,500 --> 01:21:04,374
Yeah, yeah it's almost like you
are in the next room or something.
1215
01:21:04,375 --> 01:21:08,290
- Yeah, amazing. Bye.
- Yeah, OK.
1216
01:21:08,291 --> 01:21:13,708
[Joanna] Had I thought that
it would be done by Steve Jobs,
1217
01:21:13,709 --> 01:21:19,541
if I had known that then,
I think I wouldn't have been as devastated.
1218
01:21:19,542 --> 01:21:24,165
Because then I would know that it would
be done and it would be done right.
1219
01:21:24,166 --> 01:21:26,958
It was very gratifying,
because it had come full circle, you know?
1220
01:21:26,959 --> 01:21:31,124
Started with the Mac,
and had spawned General Magic.
1221
01:21:31,125 --> 01:21:36,582
General Magic progeny had
spawned iPhone and Android.
1222
01:21:36,583 --> 01:21:39,165
I mean, we can't
forget the Android.
1223
01:21:39,166 --> 01:21:41,582
Thank you for joining us today.
You know Android
1224
01:21:41,583 --> 01:21:43,124
obviously, you know,
being an open source project,
1225
01:21:43,125 --> 01:21:46,290
we consider ourselves
the shepherd of it.
1226
01:21:46,291 --> 01:21:48,749
So you see the vision continues.
1227
01:21:48,750 --> 01:21:52,874
You know, if you look at Android,
Andy Rubin droid, Andy was right there
1228
01:21:52,875 --> 01:21:57,082
with us and then he carried it to Android
and he makes it to now where we are.
1229
01:21:57,083 --> 01:21:59,457
I mean, here's the test,
what if General Magic
1230
01:21:59,458 --> 01:22:02,916
never happened,
would we have had Android?
1231
01:22:02,917 --> 01:22:06,457
Not a chance, I mean all these things
were linked together, one after another.
1232
01:22:06,458 --> 01:22:09,624
[Andy] One out of every five
people on the planet uses
1233
01:22:09,625 --> 01:22:12,916
an Android phone, uh,
growing every month.
1234
01:22:12,917 --> 01:22:17,457
[Markoff] The vision was true, the vision
was accurate, the vision is the idea
1235
01:22:17,458 --> 01:22:21,582
that basically got computing
to the last hurdle.
1236
01:22:21,583 --> 01:22:23,708
The last hurdle was
when computing got into
1237
01:22:23,709 --> 01:22:25,549
the palm of the hand
of everybody in the world.
1238
01:22:27,208 --> 01:22:31,624
And between Tony and...
and Andy, that's about 98%
1239
01:22:31,625 --> 01:22:37,040
of the world's smartphones,
is those two guys who sat 15 feet apart.
1240
01:22:37,041 --> 01:22:40,708
That's pretty amazing,
and that by itself is...
1241
01:22:40,709 --> 01:22:46,916
brings such satisfaction.
It's, uh... I can't even describe it.
1242
01:22:46,917 --> 01:22:49,874
[Andy] First obvious thing to mention
is that we are not alone here today.
1243
01:22:49,875 --> 01:22:55,332
We are being filmed for posterity as
part of our... our introduction video.
1244
01:22:55,333 --> 01:22:58,082
Who knows if any of this
will really be in the video.
1245
01:22:58,083 --> 01:23:01,624
[Amy] Imagine a star
that went supernova
1246
01:23:01,625 --> 01:23:06,165
and everything
that you touch today,
1247
01:23:06,166 --> 01:23:09,124
everything you interact
with today technology wise
1248
01:23:09,125 --> 01:23:12,165
is because that star power
touched it.
1249
01:23:12,166 --> 01:23:14,165
I mean, all these companies,
and I don't know
1250
01:23:14,166 --> 01:23:17,040
if you add up the value
of those what it would be,
1251
01:23:17,041 --> 01:23:20,332
but they all had
their genesis with this crew
1252
01:23:20,333 --> 01:23:24,290
of just a few dozen people,
who were at General Magic.
1253
01:23:24,291 --> 01:23:26,958
[Adler] It was one of the only
times I've ever felt like
1254
01:23:26,959 --> 01:23:29,249
there's no weak link
in this chain,
1255
01:23:29,250 --> 01:23:30,749
everyone on this team,
1256
01:23:30,750 --> 01:23:33,749
uh, is brilliant,
is so committed and passionate.
1257
01:23:33,750 --> 01:23:37,082
What's so rare is having all
those things at the same time.
1258
01:23:37,083 --> 01:23:39,457
[Tony] When you look at
that class of people
1259
01:23:39,458 --> 01:23:44,124
and what the world looks like today,
that was the training ground
1260
01:23:44,125 --> 01:23:48,499
for us, for what has
shaped the world of today.
1261
01:23:48,500 --> 01:23:51,457
[Kevin] We all carry things from
General Magic, in terms of our view
1262
01:23:51,458 --> 01:23:53,124
of what could be
possible in the future.
1263
01:23:53,125 --> 01:23:56,082
And as engineers
you can't help but think,
1264
01:23:56,083 --> 01:23:59,833
"There's... there's... Can we
do this now? How about now?"
1265
01:23:59,834 --> 01:24:04,874
I am so, so excited to show you our work,
and I'm wearing Apple Watch right here.
1266
01:24:04,875 --> 01:24:08,416
A lot of General Magic was imagining what the
world would be like if some things existed
1267
01:24:08,417 --> 01:24:11,249
that maybe we would make,
and that's so fun to do.
1268
01:24:11,250 --> 01:24:13,290
You can control both the eyes
and the mouth to get just
1269
01:24:13,291 --> 01:24:15,833
the right expression you would
like to send to somebody.
1270
01:24:15,834 --> 01:24:19,082
And that is so true in so many fields
right now, you are able to actually
1271
01:24:19,083 --> 01:24:22,999
transform industries
by your work in technology.
1272
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:26,125
[Tony] When you look at someone like
Megan taking all of her knowledge
1273
01:24:27,458 --> 01:24:29,124
and all the things she learned,
1274
01:24:29,125 --> 01:24:31,207
and now bringing it
to the government and seeing
1275
01:24:31,208 --> 01:24:34,332
how the US Government is
transforming through that.
1276
01:24:34,333 --> 01:24:38,416
Hello, everybody, how you doing?
1277
01:24:38,417 --> 01:24:40,833
- Good to see you, is this my seat right here?
- Yes, it is.
1278
01:24:40,834 --> 01:24:44,624
President Obama had created the US Chief
Technology Officer, which is my job
1279
01:24:44,625 --> 01:24:48,124
and our team and really said:
"Come and help me using those new methods
1280
01:24:48,125 --> 01:24:51,833
on some of these harder problems,
these problems that are in our civic space."
1281
01:24:51,834 --> 01:24:53,791
There is the future right here.
1282
01:24:53,792 --> 01:24:55,457
One of the things
that I like to work on is
1283
01:24:55,458 --> 01:24:59,290
how to use technology
to make people's lives better
1284
01:24:59,291 --> 01:25:02,082
and sort of harness talent
and unlock talent.
1285
01:25:02,083 --> 01:25:06,791
I love thinking about,
uh, how magic is anywhere.
1286
01:25:06,792 --> 01:25:11,082
Uh, in everyone,
and how do you pull that out
1287
01:25:11,083 --> 01:25:16,792
and really make sure that the talent that
wants to do its thing is able to do it.
1288
01:25:22,625 --> 01:25:25,708
[Swisher] You know, as the human
race thrives really on this planet
1289
01:25:25,709 --> 01:25:29,958
it creates all kinds of problems,
education, uniting people, climate change.
1290
01:25:29,959 --> 01:25:34,040
There is not enough water, there is not
enough food. What are we going to do?
1291
01:25:34,041 --> 01:25:38,667
Those can all be solved with technologies,
it's just a question how humanity uses it.
1292
01:25:41,041 --> 01:25:46,499
But, the reliance on technology for everything,
for human interactions is worrisome.
1293
01:25:46,500 --> 01:25:49,624
Where people are, you know, you go to
anything and everyone is like this, right.
1294
01:25:49,625 --> 01:25:53,165
Um, so I worry about what
happens to society and children
1295
01:25:53,166 --> 01:25:55,667
and how they interact
with each other.
1296
01:25:58,375 --> 01:26:01,207
You can't change the human race,
yeah, but you can start
1297
01:26:01,208 --> 01:26:03,457
to educate them so that they
change their behaviors.
1298
01:26:03,458 --> 01:26:06,582
And so the question is, can you
take these powerful tools
1299
01:26:06,583 --> 01:26:10,207
and do something that really
does help a lot of people?
1300
01:26:10,208 --> 01:26:13,374
Can you inspire a group
of young people now, to really,
1301
01:26:13,375 --> 01:26:17,250
to be creative and come up
with these new ideas?
1302
01:26:22,375 --> 01:26:26,332
Tonight, we feature an iconic
inventor of iPod and iPhone,
1303
01:26:26,333 --> 01:26:28,541
I would like to bring up
five numbers to introduce him.
1304
01:26:28,542 --> 01:26:31,666
Seven billion, two hundred
and seventy nine million,
1305
01:26:31,667 --> 01:26:35,374
three hundred and ninety five thousand,
eight hundred and seventy three.
1306
01:26:35,375 --> 01:26:39,207
This is the number of kilowatt hours
saved by Nest Thermostat owners.
1307
01:26:39,208 --> 01:26:43,374
Eighteen, the number of
generations of iPod's shipped.
1308
01:26:43,375 --> 01:26:46,541
Three hundred, the number
of patents authored.
1309
01:26:46,542 --> 01:26:50,374
Three hundred and fifty million,
the number of iPods sold.
1310
01:26:50,375 --> 01:26:54,749
Join me in welcoming
the one and only Tony Fadell.
1311
01:26:54,750 --> 01:26:58,582
Hi, everybody.
1312
01:26:58,583 --> 01:27:03,040
Let's say, you show up now, you're a kid,
you show up here in the Valley,
1313
01:27:03,041 --> 01:27:06,582
um, what would you tell someone
similar to you who just walked in,
1314
01:27:06,583 --> 01:27:09,416
you know, wet behind the ears
in Silicon Valley today?
1315
01:27:09,417 --> 01:27:14,416
You know I am only up here because
of many people in this audience,
1316
01:27:14,417 --> 01:27:19,582
who helped me get here,
and that's the magic of Silicon Valley.
1317
01:27:19,583 --> 01:27:23,249
We all started in the same place
you are in today.
1318
01:27:23,250 --> 01:27:27,207
Everyone has the same self
doubts and no one's perfect.
1319
01:27:27,208 --> 01:27:30,249
And when you meet your heroes
and when you work with them
1320
01:27:30,250 --> 01:27:34,249
and they treat you as a peer,
learn from it.
1321
01:27:34,250 --> 01:27:37,582
Keep moving. If you're
dreaming the right dream,
1322
01:27:37,583 --> 01:27:40,708
you're on the right path.
I've been there before,
1323
01:27:40,709 --> 01:27:42,458
it's tough, keep going.
1324
01:27:44,458 --> 01:27:47,458
These people helped me
to become the person I am.
1325
01:27:51,625 --> 01:27:57,791
How can we take this same idea
of bold dramatic change
1326
01:27:57,792 --> 01:27:59,916
to help create a better society?
1327
01:27:59,917 --> 01:28:02,207
We are going to have
to invent those things
1328
01:28:02,208 --> 01:28:08,333
and do it in all of these other domains that are
being touched or revolutionized by technology.
1329
01:28:12,291 --> 01:28:16,582
It may seem daunting, it may seem difficult,
it may seem impossible,
1330
01:28:16,583 --> 01:28:20,082
but if you just find the right
people and keep seeking out
1331
01:28:20,083 --> 01:28:24,374
knowledge and advice and keep
staying open to make a better world
1332
01:28:24,375 --> 01:28:28,040
regardless of where you come
from, great things can happen.
1333
01:28:28,041 --> 01:28:30,582
We judge things
by the moment in which we feel
1334
01:28:30,583 --> 01:28:33,666
that they have made an impact
on the mass culture.
1335
01:28:33,667 --> 01:28:37,290
They are in the anthropology,
they are in the culture of how we see
1336
01:28:37,291 --> 01:28:40,290
ourselves, and how we come
to expect the world to be
1337
01:28:40,291 --> 01:28:43,624
and I don't think that will
happen for another ten years.
1338
01:28:43,625 --> 01:28:45,999
I think we will build to it
incrementally and every quarter
1339
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:48,082
and every year it will
get closer and closer,
1340
01:28:48,083 --> 01:28:50,874
but I don't think it will be until
the 21st century when the stuff
1341
01:28:50,875 --> 01:28:54,541
we are working on today becomes
unexceptional, unexceptional.
1342
01:28:54,542 --> 01:28:57,791
Not worth making a video about,
and, and that's the test...
1343
01:28:57,792 --> 01:29:01,582
Except for historical documentary purposes.
[chuckles]
1344
01:29:01,583 --> 01:29:05,708
And, and that's the test
of, uh, of hey, we've made it.
1345
01:29:05,709 --> 01:29:06,791
We've really made a difference.
1346
01:29:06,792 --> 01:29:08,541
We've really changed the world.
1347
01:29:08,542 --> 01:29:12,417
[piano music]
1348
01:29:32,709 --> 01:29:36,250
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