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Communications,

particularly the transistor and above

all the communications satellite.

These things were made possible in a world in which we have an instant contact

with each other, wherever we may be.

It will be possible in that age, perhaps only 50 years from now,

for a man to conduct his business from Tahiti or Bali.

Just as well as he could from London.

In fact, it proves worthwhile

almost any executive skill, any administrative skill,

even any physical skill could be made

independent of distance.

When that time comes, the whole world was shrunk to a point.

And the traditional role of the city as a meeting place for a man.

What has ceased to make any sense?

In fact, men will no longer commute.

They will communicate.

Say we're not late.

I know, but I'm going to throw up

all of their

organizational talent, but not snoring like a man who

wandered

through the orchestra or the Baroque.

It can also implement decisions without showing

as well.

I finally understand that quote

When you grow up, your heart dies.

That's what brought this claim.

John used to.

Yeah, You put that buzzing.

There's an office that actually got me a little too

subtle buzzing.

You've identified it, but

in China, the Monkey,

The Beast.

Uh, Mike, I can't concentrate.

And so what? I'm going to fix this.

I want to fix him.

But now is not the time.

The meeting starts in, like, 10 minutes.

That's not right.

I mean, like, that's a guy's thing.

That's a guy's walking frame, and there's no off switch,

and there's just always on switch, just always buzzing.

Well, you can tell him.

He's like, he's not going to get steel

alloys again.

I'll call you back

there outside.

Guys really are Dodger.

Listen, Rick, I thought about this a lot.

And if these guys take the deal,

I want to run the new division.

Or think you can run this place.

Yes. Yes, me too.

Just so we're clear, if this thing doesn't go,

we never had this conversation.

Great.

Thank you.

There's one adjustment.

Apparently, the Americans are offering them some fancy tax

splitting plan, so we need to show them the Canadian version.

I don't have that.

I don't know how I can work something out at the last minute.

We're going to bring him in to explain.

Callahan.

You know what? I think that's a bad idea.

Why is that?

I'll tell you what, Rick.

Why don't you have Callahan explain the tax thing to me, and I'll just.

I'll work it into my pitch. I think that's better.

I was up all night putting this together as a favorite.

He gets to happen, right?

I mean, you're going to have this guy presents a stork.

I mean, he looks like a

fucking a total goof. Jim,

I'm not asking.

Okay, great.

Okay. Paul.

Scary looking guy walking towards us right now.

God damn it, Mike.

Watch the fuck out.

Stop.

French Better?

Yeah.

What can I do for you? Yes.

Hi, I'm Mike, class

CEO of Research in Motion.

We create various computer hardware systems using both custom design

integrated circuits, as well as off the shelf components promoted by major

hardware vendors such as Intel, American Micro Devices and Citrix.

Our clients have included U.S. robotics.

Rogers can't tell Ram Mobile just second.

Yeah.

Hey, you're on Callahan's desk, right?

Okay, great. This is Jim Balsillie.

Brock wanted me to do a quick proof of that tech stuff before the meeting.

Could you bring me a

E? Exactly.

Okay, great.

Thanks. I'm

okay.

What is this?

So we had a shop teacher

told us.

Oh, we had a shop teacher in high school named Mr.

Muszynski who told us the person who puts a computer inside a phone

will change the world.

Well, we have a plan to piggyback on the unused bandwidth

of the UHF spectrum to create an all in one mobile device.

I tell you, the system is here to see you.

Great.

Sorry, Mr. Balsillie. No one.

I didn't realize you needed a copy of this natural world.

Yeah, I'm going to meeting.

So basically,

there is a free wireless Internet signal

all across North America, and nobody has street on how to use it.

There's free Internet in this room right now.

It's like the force.

Sorry.

Have you seen Star Wars? No.

So, okay, picture a pager,

a cell phone and an email machine.

All in one thing.

So we call it

pocket link.

Okay,

listen, we don't do anything like that here.

We are a commercial manufacturing company.

You want to talk to this guy

and you need a better

name for.

You can cry like, Oh, it's just disappointment.

Yeah, you did great.

Well, I saw that Rick sent the limo to pick you guys up.

What's made this merger worse than I thought?

Okay, so I know we have a lot to cover, but

I thought we should start with our tax strategy.

Now, I'm sure you heard it from the Americans, but let me assure you,

we also know how to cheat on our taxes here in Canada.

Okay,

here's what we can do.

We run payroll out of Ontario, but we pay all our vendors from the Netherlands.

Split that fucker right in half.

The left one. Know what the right is doing.

Plus, we get a nice little provincial kickback on manufacturing own.

We get a massive federal tax credit because they don't know

more and held captive

within the digital world that the computer itself

is not good

for business. Oh.

So what you're saying is that we just touch the top.

That action is made.

Use your cellular phone to order a pizza.

And that includes 15 minutes of air time.

It will take you, but it's very harmful to be on the Internet right now.

I know, Plan.

And I still think Apple has a future.

The way out is not to slash and burn.

It's to innovate.

Okay, here's what I think, Mike.

Super simple.

Hit it with the good news.

Bad news, pretty good news.

Bad news. Routine.

You're going to save it like

whack.

Everything should be fine.

We sell the US robotic steal.

We're like, what the cave say about Latin diamond in the rough.

Of course, I forgot that

we have to change.

The main product means a new name. That guy. Way too much credit, man.

He a C score worse. He's bald.

How much you want to bet they don't even mention the phone

is your office.

They're digging.

Okay.

May go make a mega thing and make it sucks.

I can I try?

I'm using your computer.

21 boy, Canada.

That's me

this guy's telling me about sniffing is

sending is

that they buy the phone

So we got good news about

that.

Okay.

The bad news is that yeah, the presentation,

we were not heard and they did not understand the product.

And so they did not buy the phone.

What was the good news?

What's the good news?

Emergency movie night right now.

Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Better boss, No one.

I got it.

Said they had this one.

They had markings on one side.

You absolutely sure

fell extended too long.

They were digging this

day. It's the Davis

Cup of bad day

Congress, because that was

that was there one

one movie, man.

Now, when you find out how to buy some more stock, you

no more than 45 101.3.

But often the real story what

are they talking bottom left.

Go. I got my true

sense and everything pop up. Let's take.

Let's take a gamble here. Go for Scott.

Anybody have a time to collect?

I think they don't even know. I'm not even talking. Lefcourt.

You attacking me?

What? You're talking me.

Oh, I'm sorry. Send the dogs.

You can send the dogs.

They're rushing off the bottom. Right.

I'm getting another.

They got rockets.

I can run down over here any time.

So you can't do it, but.

Well, read all those lectures down

on. Oh, sorry.

I got to go

back.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

That's great. Thanks.

So I know how to sell your phone.

I know how to market it, and I know who we can sell it to. Oh,

what do you mean we?

Here's the deal.

I will leave my job at Sutherland Schultz

if you make me CEO of Research in Motion.

All right.

Are you serious?

That was the worst product pitch I've ever seen in my life.

You guys don't stand a chance out there.

You need me to sort of.

I don't know. I don't know who you think you are.

Oh, we are just fine.

Yeah.

We have a $16 million deal with you guys.

Robotics. 16 million.

That's right.

Wow. Okay, What are they? Buy

modems.

Ever heard of one?

Are they like the force in Star Wars?

It's very funny.

You know, your logo literally is.

SS And how much have they paid you on that?

6 million

and nothing.

Zero.

Nothing yet we would deliver the models.

Well, we shipped them product samples months ago and

they're accounting department one year and her phone calls.

Yeah. They're going at what's going on. They're going to pay us.

We have a $60.

Nobody with us. Fox Yeah.

So you guys are getting fucked.

Why would you why do you think why do you say that?

Well, because I would do the same thing.

Little operation like yours.

They know they can withhold payment

to the last possible second and then crush you

guys.

They're the pirates.

Ha, ha.

We got it.

Thank you.

How do you know anything about it?

I care how much money you got.

Yeah, okay.

That's two, too.

Here's what I'm going to do.

I will give you $20,000 cash today.

I'll sell the phone.

I'll work out this problem with UCR, But I want 50% of the company

and I've got to be CEO.

Okay, that's I.

You joking?

No, obviously, obviously.

No, no, I just like.

Okay, okay. Who is in charge here?

Oh, I mean, Mike is in charge and he says no, I am in charge.

And I

say, sorry, you don't need to do it.

This guy says, we just met him. He's not your dad.

Okay, Thanks.

Thank you.

Very sassy man.

Would you say hello?

Yeah, he had a SAT modems.

Ever heard of those or whatever?

Oh, no, I says to to.

But he says it back

and what he tried to say,

but we don't have our modem deal.

You have to report it. Come and check your call.

Yes. Mike laughs Reedus from Research in Motion.

We're actually building conservative demands for you guys on this.

Mike, thank you. Yes. Hi.

Um, I was just wondering if,

if, if it would all be at all

possible for us to invoice you for the

first half of third hour

of your order from us.

If it can, we can.

Can we invoice you for some some of our.

Your order, If that's okay.

You can you not get my fax.

We don't have a fax machine,

Mike.

Those modems you sent us back in March, that would affect.

I'm sorry, What?

Yeah, they didn't work.

We had to cancel all our.

But this was months ago, buddy.

I really thought you guys had a fax machine.

Hey, I tell you what, why don't you let me make it up here?

I'll have your source.

Anyone free of charge on me.

Okay? Yeah.

Okay. Thanks.

Great. Okay. Well, good luck, Mike.

Yeah.

Bye bye. Bye.

All right, here's what you got to do.

You got to call him back.

You've got to Glengarry Glen Ross, This guy.

You've got to write him.

I don't think I can grind him.

It's exactly what that Rolex guy said was going to happen, right?

He predicted it.

What did he say?

He said, You robotics or pirates?

He was fucking dead on

that.

Hey, Steve.

Steve, I need a phone line.

Some guys trying to say nudie in Syria is a cute

thing. Yeah. Thanks. All right.

What are you doing?

I think we should take this deal.

No, no.

So you don't get into business with people like this?

That guy is sketchy.

I think he's.

I don't know, sketchy.

His business card is literally sketched out.

The guy's a shark.

And, you know,

I was afraid of sharks.

Irons.

So we've been talking here,

and we

just.

We would like to make a counteroffer.

You came crawling back like bugs.

Like grubs. Yeah.

So we would like to offer you

10% for

$500,000.

Are you fucking mind?

Oh, look at 100,000 deals today.

I'll take one quote.

No, I look at 100 deals a day.

I'll take one Wall Street.

Okay.

Hey, what?

25% for 250,000.

50% for 50 bucks.

33% for 125,000.

And you can run the company with me, Mike.

No, no, We still deal.

Is it?

It's going to be totally fine.

You cannot negotiate this guy to death

on 100 000.

Stop torture, inflict far.

Oh, everybody

back it off.

Yeah. Hi, Jim.

It's Mike Lazaridis, Research in Motion.

We met at the office the other day.

You know, So

we'd like to have you

33% of our company for 125,000.

And you and I would be co-CEOs.

Here. You number them are suspect.

That's the Einstein of this part of the game.

Is that for sure, Neil?

Just awesome.

Awesome, dude.

Like a good shot.

John He did it.

I mean, have you not heard anything that's been going on in

this room? I

don't.

Maybe you should tell him about the. Oh,

we you want to put him?

What the fuck is this?

That's it.

Yeah. Everyone builds their own desk. That's.

That's a tradition.

Yeah, I'm not doing that.

U.S. robotics pulled out of the deal.

I told you.

What's our exposure?

Exposure?

How much money did you spend on the moms of 1.6 billion?

One point. What?

What would

add 1.6 million materials and labor?

Where did you get $1.6 billion?

I got a loan from the Bank of Montreal.

Mike, come on, get me us Robotics

and I'm

sorry, Who are you talking to?

Yeah, What the fuck is that?

Oh, it's called here in a way.

Yeah.

Colorado isn't even in. It's

high.

Get off the fucking Internet. Why

not? It

gets Casey, huh?

It's going to come out.

It's going to find what?

You don't get to talk to our team like that.

You're just on my high.

Actually, no.

This is Jim Balsillie.

I'm CEO here now.

co-CEO.

Okay, Jim, what can I do for you?

I want to talk about these modems.

There's nothing to talk about.

Sadly, we can't accept the fact our products.

Let's cut the bullshit here.

2.5 million all in for the entire order.

Yeah. No, Can't do it.

Then I'll decimate it for you. 1.6 million.

And if you don't take that, I'll turn around and sell to Rockwell for even less.

That's negotiation.

Okay, How about this?

We'll take the modems if you trying to patent a microphone.

One phone.

I thought we weren't bullshitting each other, Jim.

We've been building our own for a year.

We want more.

How long to build a prototype of the phone

in properly?

Yeah. Year

on a prototype. Mike.

A shell.

I can wave around in a meeting. It could be a complete piece of shit.

No, we're not doing that,

my son.

Listen to me.

UC Robotics is building their own phone.

We are now in a race to get this thing to market.

We are a year behind, so I don't care what you need to do.

Get these fucking nerds to drop everything and build this fucking phone.

Right.

Sorry, guys.

My girlfriend tried to cash my check this morning and it bounced

and she said I'm not supposed to come in here.

A lab technician come in here anymore and she agreed,

I won't be coming in here any longer until I'm getting paid

less.

I can fix this.

Okay. Research in Motion.

It looks like your account has exceeded its overdraft balance.

Didn't they

just deposit a check for $125,000 from me?

Yes. Okay.

All right.

I have a mortgage with you guys.

Can we pull that off, please?

Spell your last name, please.

The l.

S i l l ii

all silly.

Lastly,

anybody You missed this red chair six years ago.

It was the

first

two games.

All right, everybody, listen up.

From now on, checks will be coming every two weeks.

You will come get them from Shelly.

This is Shelly. Hi.

All right, that's you. Show

Mike.

Are you sure?

I'm sorry. Who.

Who is showing Shelly?

I'm. That was haunting. You

know, I'm motivating you.

And don't call me that thing. I'm your boss.

Got. Yeah.

Get me John Woodman at double panic. You got it.

Wait, me. What you doing?

We are selling the phone.

Mike, I need a prototype.

I told you I don.

I thought my connecting you guys.

We are over $1,000,000 in debt with no assets, no contracts, no products.

Congressman's office.

Hi, this is Jim Balsillie, CEO of Research in Motion.

Consider one moment, please.

Okay.

Yeah, I know. He said there's no phone.

I'm not asking you,

Mike.

Okay.

Okay.

Wouldn't it would have been okay. No, no, wait.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

John. WOMAN Mr.

Woodman, I am about to make you insanely rich. Oh.

Oh, Why does not agree with this?

You just fucking did.

That was duress. Okay?

You're manipulating him.

It's obvious what you want me do

what?

So there's a reason why your intercom is emitting white noise?

It's because it was manufactured in China by engineers who didn't care.

And now every office in the world

has to suffer an annoying hiss,

blinking red light, 15 different

power cores that are utterly incompatible with one another. So

we're not doing that.

We are not just adding to the hiss.

I will build a prototype,

but I'll do it perfectly or I don't do it.

Mike are you familiar with the saying perfect is the enemy of good?

Well, good enough is the enemy of humanity.

Charlie, get John Woodman back on, please.

So I read John, hang up the phone.

Well,

he looks up at me like, Are you ready to die?

Oh, no, no, no.

And I'm prepared to die on it right.

Mike steps in between us,

brings the glasses down and goes,

Bitch, I tell you, when we set the goddamn meeting and he backs off.

Oh, all right.

Woodman wants to see it.

We're going to volunteer tomorrow. What?

New York City Tomorrow.

But he said you until 8 a.m..

To do what?

So you can come with us to do.

Okay.

When you are all going to build this thing tonight.

Okay.

All right.

Give me a Fillmore toggle switch.

Give me a 33, perhaps.

Yeah, I think it's like something kind of like a hybrid of lines.

I like to sit back

and what

feels better.

That's why some of you like Remote Controls

Touch Me button

all of that.

Your connection is lost.

Yeah. Yeah.

So that in a lithium ion doesn't

still.

I'm still there, you know, I had a dream.

We were rich,

and sometimes my dreams occur exactly as I dreamt them.

All right, let's go

with that. From

June. Hi.

You'll get dressed at the airport.

Thank you

so much.

Doesn't come with us, sir. No,

because he has a lot to do with us.

Does it goof?

Get in a car. Yeah.

I think he really wants to come.

Let me tell you the best advice I ever got at Harvard.

I want to be great.

You need to sacrifice.

The more painful the sacrifice, the greater you'll be

hit. He's my best friend.

Okay, great.

I saw him put a toilet plunger on a computer.

He's like my rock.

So if you hear me crinkling a piece of paper,

that means stop talking, like in general or

no in a pinch.

Oh, gotcha.

And, hey, we got to move here, man.

My wife's in labor.

Let's go

now, I ask why your business card has the phone number.

Credit.

I've no idea what you're talking about, so let's make a deal, okay?

You and I never lie to each other.

I'm sure

I didn't quit my job.

I was fired, and I just mortgaged my house to pay our staff.

So if this doesn't work out, I'm fucked

by the fire. You

because they're idiots.

Really?

High risk promotion.

How are you?

Fantastic.

Can I get you anything or event?

Okay. I'll be with you shortly. Okay?

Okay. Right.

So I guess. Jim.

No, no, no, no.

Never take the drinks thirst as a display of weakness.

No, I may have forgotten my phone.

Please tell me you're joking.

Now. I'm completely serious.

I just want you to do.

I need you to try and sketch

something that shows the keyboard just like you did in my office.

Yeah, I'm good.

Excuse me, miss.

Can I tell you for pen and paper, please?

They're ready for you.

Okay.

Yeah, that's round. Oh, wait, wait a minute.

Okay. Hey.

Hi. Hi.

All right, good

good. We.

We waiting for anyone?

An alarm.

Okay?

Yeah.

Good.

All right, guys,

here's how I see it right now.

I know your marketing team tells me that you sell togetherness, family,

or staying connected or whatever, but let's be honest.

You some minutes, period.

I mean, your market is minutes,

so your biggest competitor is another cell phone companies.

It's home phones and office phones.

Those are free minutes.

Those are wasted minutes.

So how do we get those minutes back?

We reinvent the cell phone.

We put a computer in it, we put the Internet in it.

We make your cell phone so fucking useful

that you never have come to the office again.

Does email text messaging however you want to communicate

total individualism all in one device

that fits in your fist.

So you can tell your marketing team you're not selling

togetherness anymore.

Selling self reliance.

You are not a tech guy, are you?

I'm not a

the whole world.

The whole fucking world is trying to do emails on a cell phone.

We had an entire division working on it right now, eight months or something.

You know how many phones they got to work at the same time?

11. It's a network that's built for pagers.

That's all I could do.

You're in la la land.

Oh, this one.

You know, you've got I think, you know, some nerds

took you for a ride.

Okay. I'm

like, What happened

to my work?

Remember? Like, they tried it.

How did you try this already? Guys, I think the meeting's over.

Did you just put your devices directly to the network as though

they were client?

That's right.

All right, So that gets you, like ten phones working at the same time.

Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, here's what this is.

Okay, so here's your issue rating.

When you use a phone as a client, what's it doing?

Is just sitting on your network constantly asking the same question,

Did I get an email?

I get an email, I get an email.

So it is forever pulling on your servers whether you got an email or not.

We have a fix.

Okay, So you're going to build a giant computer

that will act as a sort of massive client

that is hardwired directly to the internet with our phone

as a server.

Okay, so when a user gets an email,

Waterloo pulls it in, packages it, and then

sends it, we engage with your network,

maybe a split second like,

like less time than that.

So how much?

I'm sorry,

how many months worth of traffic would be less bandwidth than a local phone call.

So you could have half a million devices working simultaneously.

We see.

Yeah. Yeah.

So it's a prototype.

So it's a long way off from.

Oh, it's just a long, long way off.

The prototype.

But it's definitely the world's

largest pager.

No, it's actually the world's smallest email terminal.

So I see.

This is a oh, this, this, huh?

Yeah. Oh,

So try with your thumbs.

Try typing with your thumbs.

Oh, yeah.

What do you

call it?

It's for a BlackBerry.

It sends and receives email messages in his call.

So a cell phone.

Oh, oh, oh,

oh. More.

His mom.

I said,

Morning, Mr.

Boss. The morning before.

Boss, Mike's here before me.

He didn't leave last name

You are mentioned on page nine.

Colin Koski from Palm Pilot keeps calling.

Yeah, well, I'll tell you who wants to talk to me and come to want to know.

That's what I said.

Ted Rogers wants to have lunch in the city.

He book. No, no, no, I'm not.

I'm not going to fucking Toronto unless there's a game.

Oh, and call Gary Bettman office, not the leaf tickets.

Fucker tried to stick me in the third row after 34.

Got it.

All right, try 114 and 114.

Go four, one, one four.

Okay, so.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh! Point oh.

Oh, God. Yeah.

Come on.

Jam. Yeah, we.

We built the messenger

a fully encrypted two way messaging

that is absolutely inaccessible by anyone, including us.

It is is on trackable and traceable.

Unhackable.

It's texting

so suddenly.

And no, you know how much it costs to send a text message.

Yeah. $0.10.

And the network gets every penny.

We're never going to see that money.

Right.

But these texts are sent via data.

So behind the networks, back,

which means unlimited free texting

only on BlackBerry.

Fuck yes, of course.

Yes. I sent a message that Alexander Graham Bell

said to his assistant, Watson, come here. That's what I said.

All right, let's just let's just. You

can cut

it off with.

Sorry. Who are you?

You said if I wanted to talk, I had to come to Waterloo.

So there I am.

Gentlemen, meet Carl Jankowski of Palm Pilot.

Oh, really?

Doesn't

I know.

So I just said three words, two liter bottle.

You know what I mean?

They said, Oh, yeah.

Oh, nobody drinks

two liters of Mountain Dew.

I mean, they didn't see what I saw.

Large pizza, big soda, complete dinner.

We sold a billion liters in a month.

I You playing with your cell phone?

Oh, yeah.

All right, let's clear the air here.

I had nothing to do with U.S.

robotics trying to bankrupt you back in 96.

Defective modems, working modems where they defective now was years ago.

Who's to say me? Right,

Exactly.

Here's what we do.

Combined BlackBerry and Palm Pilot.

One product.

It's the two liter bottle of smartphones

where I still have complete control

over every aspect of engineering and design.

You know?

Okay, well, then that's going to we won't be able to move ahead with this.

I'm sorry.

Sorry.

You guys love saying sorry.

Don't. Yeah.

Okay.

Let's see what you closed that

$4.50.

Oh, God.

Is that Canadian?

US Robotics, huh?

$83. Now, that gives us a market cap

of about 45 billion.

So what would happen if I just.

I don't know.

Are all your shares

What's the word for that again?

Spark

a hostile takeover?

Hostile takeover?

What is happening is we would just say we could just say, no,

we we own the company.

You know, Carlton, we've got a deal.

Yeah, Yeah.

Just give us a couple of months to get our people

taken care of, and then we'll all agree to a private sale, Right?

Just like it's okay. It's okay.

It's better to get rich

now than to fight this guy in court for the next five years.

That's right.

You know, I like you.

We like hockey.

I know it's moronic.

You hate it.

I love coming here to chew bubblegum

and kick ass

in a ball bottom.

Oh, they start to come on.

This guy

that is Duke Nukem for millions of

OC party Zealot

has a shot.

What?

Listen up.

Turn that thing off, please.

You turn it off.

Alex Jones.

Yeah,

because I'm

so about to lose our fucking company.

What the hell happened to this launch?

You don't turn that fucking thing off,

okay?

Yeah.

Doug So my question is actually for Mike.

How are we supposed to sell another 500,000 phones when we're already maxed

on every network we are on?

Uh, we got to figure it out. How?

If we put more phones on these networks, they're going to crash, period.

We are not allowed to sell more phones.

Mike, You don't worry about what's allowed.

I say what's allowed.

I don't even understand what the problem is here.

Who cares if this guy wants to buy our company?

Isn't that good? I fucking care.

That's who cares?

I care.

I'm trying to keep this company together. You fuck. I'm sorry.

Do we even know what a network limit load is?

Talk to me outside

for a second.

What?

What's a network on a load?

This is impossible.

What are we supposed to do, Mike?

Either we jack our stock to the moon or Jankowski fucks us down his right.

Unless the carriers rebuild their entire networks, there's nothing we can do.

The phones use too much data when fucking shrink it.

Yeah, okay.

We look into that. Aha.

You know

of can't

we? They can't do it.

You said they were the best engineers in the world.

I said that the best engineers in Canada

now. Okay.

All right.

Who could do it.

Maybe top guys from Motorola or Microsoft or Google.

Okay.

Or anybody else.

Where else?

John Carmack

Good.

John Carmack I need you guys. For me,

that's what we do.

Let's Doom.

Have you played Wolfenstein?

Tell me more, folks.

Can you hear me?

Yes, Yes.

Oh, fire!

Yeah.

All right, let's.

Let's get some bucks.

Starting looks a little bit short here, but we got some product to move.

Product? Can we move it?

I'm sorry. What's that?

So I guess what?

I thought the engineers said that we maxed out the networks.

Yeah, they did. Yeah, And that's their fucking problem.

Your problem is you need to sell a million Blackberries

before q3000,

I'm not fucking joking.

I want them gone.

Actually talking about banning these

banning who pays attention to meetings anymore.

A little crunched over time. Stop.

Oh, okay.

We can't crack berries.

Come work for me.

I can't. Why?

Because I'm under contract here.

How much to break it?

Excuse me.

How much money do you want to break your contract with Google?

I'll give you $1,000,000 if you sign right now.

I am not moving to Canada.

You're not having this conversation.

2 million. Stop. 3 million.

I need you to leave.

10 million.

Well, you don't have $10 million.

This is $1,000,000 option deal.

I will backdate that.

When RIM was trading at a dollar, Merrill

just gave us a target of 13.

Is this legal

that I come back

girl.

Oh, very. Yeah.

Hey, listen, I can barely hear you, buddy.

I said, how about that?

Great. Listen,

I've got some static on the line.

Can I.

Can I call you back in, like, a billion?

What? Carl?

Okay, I'll call you later.

Some. And

I feel

like Mike Lazaridis, if Jim fired you, I can't undo it.

I'm sorry. I've tried. No, no, I just got hired.

So, Paul, how you doing?

Welcome. Where you coming from? Google.

Nice.

What you do?

The head of physical engineering.

I know how

you are not salesmen anymore.

You're male models.

I want you at every country club, yacht club, tennis club.

Wherever the league go, you go.

I want to see you using him.

May be loud.

Have how?

Thinking Who is this annoying Brit?

And how can I be more like him?

What is that?

When they ask you don't say it's a phone that does email.

It's not a cell phone.

It's a status symbol

for somebody else.

Anybody else

know?

Hi, I'm calling on behalf of BlackBerry.

I heard that you're interested in buying some of the quirks for your

corporation. I

like that number

in the back, so I like it.

755 We're back with Fox five Consumer News on global BlackBerry crisis

this morning.

The company says it's experiencing massive service.

The company's helpline says that users can expect delays in sending

and receiving messages.

Yes. Yes.

We are aware of the problem and we are we are sorting out

right now like know who they're talking with.

These fires are still there.

We totally fire quite at

that.

Let's just keep it down out of there

for a second.

How many are down?

Maybe 10,000.

Oh, Jesus. Okay.

Okay,

okay.

Okay.

Hello.

You have a collect call from What the fuck is happening?

Can you accept the charges?

Are you still there?

Yeah. Yes, I accept.

Thank you, Mike. Hi.

There are three reasons why people buy our phones.

You know what they are worth? Email.

They fucking work.

Yeah, Okay. It's not us. Jim.

Mr.. The carrier Verizon is doing something weird.

Well, I'm about to do something weird.

If you don't fix this. No

big deal.

What?

I get out of here, you get that out.

Are you. Are you selling your phones?

What the hell do you think I've been doing over here?

Mike, we're in the middle of almost a fucking takeover.

I'm sorry.

You said you're okay.

Okay, So that's okay.

Yeah.

The entire system is crashing.

He's selling our phones, goddamnit.

Yeah, yeah.

So I think that, you know, maybe just hold off

or I'm not.

Okay. I'm sorry. Is this technically legal?

Jane?

I'm actually in a personal meeting.

Charles and

I personally don't give a flying fuck Engineering can't do a goddamn thing.

You said that fax.

Now take a meeting when the union is a reverend.

My gut said, Do you hear me?

Let's

get it done.

Son of a bitch.

You said you were located in Waterloo.

What is that guy's name?

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Research in Motion.

I know this is a bit disorganized.

I promise we'll get everybody settled so

in the meantime, we're

having a bit of a network issue, So put up your hand.

If you understand mobile text architecture

to me.

Okay,

That's fine.

You two, you're with Mike.

The rest of you, I don't know what you do, but follow me.

We're taking a tour. Let's go.

Me? A little bit like Sam Rockwell and Ninja Turtles.

I want to talk to you for a second.

What is Charles party doing here?

I'll get the DVD.

What are you talking about, man?

Standing in the hallway directly over my left shoulder.

Oh, Jesus. Listen to me.

That guy.

Oh, fuck you.

Do not let that man anywhere near your engineering department.

Trust me.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

All right.

I'm serious.

You fuck your shit up

and I help you.

My time here?

Yes, I'm Mike.

What are you doing here?

Carlton, I'm your new CEO.

Oh. Jim hired you to be the chief.

I'm here to get this ship under control.

We are under control.

Oh, really?

Who's on

the. Okay, so then let's try something different.

Instead of shrinking the data, maybe we spread it out.

Thank you.

Why not take multiple towers in the same zone and split them back in between them?

I could put it back together at the server.

We tried that. Here's the problem.

The towers don't recognize one another.

Each one has no idea which piece of the signal they're receiving.

And the whole process just keeps. Maybe we reprogram the towers.

They're not our towers.

We don't control them. That's okay.

And now we got wind. A hack, the PlayStation.

Get Crash Bandicoot right again.

Okay, So if each exchange is triangulated, we could divide the signal three away.

We can actually wait.

Wait for every BlackBerry is a server.

We could divide the signal between every user in the same grid.

Out of my thousands.

It'll be like Napster distributed network of your own users.

And that's got to be the normal service hackers would be on it so fast

if they encrypt everything server side right

like everything is already encrypted

so like

you can have my bacon

or paying panel.

I shouldn't say

they're paying me $10 million.

Yeah, me too.

Oh, all

And now they go,

Oh, on the phone.

Look, guys, they're over there.

Every single video

has come in.

Mr. Purdy.

Yeah. So,

first of all, sorry about before

we start

Eleanora,

why don't you download?

Oh, hello. Michael's had a breakthrough.

Now, once he's tested

and I want the report on my desk Friday

when.

Sorry,

Friday.

This looks like a whole new replay system, huh?

Testing. This will probably take me a month,

so you best get started had you.

It's bad luck to work on movie night.

Yeah, time to work on

your all children.

Is that it?

Sorry.

Who are you? Here. Think this is funny?

Is that

they don't want it.

Just wondering who and who are you?

I'm Charles Purdy.

From this moment on, you all worked for me.

And that work is not done at a pace that I expect

you'll be fired.

And I'll keep firing until this room is full of men.

And not just for boys playing with the little pieces

right now.

Are there any questions?

We're stuck

about?

I find it hard to do.

But time is my time.

My knock on the window from midnight tonight,

booming to no time

to on

the property

itself,

which is now.

How do you see this?

Oh, have you been out there?

No. You Jim killed movie night.

That's what we're saying.

He gets to do himself.

Apparently he got this £300 dude to go and there's just screaming.

Everybody said it was fire.

Alan, What

we do,

we do need to get back to work.

Yeah.

Did Ryan ever wonder why these guys are willing to work 80 hours a week?

Never.

Their families

never get any credit.

It's because they get to work on the best one in the world. Doc

Yeah, that must be

his all alone and making a big mistake.

Spawn Yeah,

I'll get then I'll call you back.

Don't hang up on me. Don't you fucking.

How's everybody doing?

It? Jim,

I know this isn't exactly what you want to hear, but

this board feels that in order

to avoid further disruptions

is best, we end our relationship with BlackBerry.

John, We're just getting started.

I'm serious.

We're willing to take the hit on users and let them go crash

somebody else's fucking network.

It's over.

No, what's over is your bullshit limit of 500,000 users.

We quadrupled it.

Okay, Jim, our engineers reprogramed towers.

As of right now, Verizon is capable of carrying 2 million Blackberries

at the same time, and we've already sold half of us

all. All shut.

Try me out

by not. I'm

writing the payback

window.

Sit down.

How'd you do it, Mike?

We are number one in handset sales subscriptions, customer retention,

attracting new smartphone users and brand recognition.

We control 30% of the North American market.

And with the upcoming release of the BlackBerry Bold,

we're on track to control 50% of the global market.

Now, our numbers are a bit below our estimates right now,

but we are expecting a nice bump when the 83 Ted comes out in March.

Now is probably a good time to talk about

moving some of the

assembly construction to China now.

No, take people out of Onyx are getting more bodies, hire more people.

We're not moving to fucking China.

All right, All right.

Oh, my God.

What?

That's a good spot to leave it for today, guys.

Thank you. Hey,

where's Jim White?

He's not answering my emails or we're pitching the track.

I never asked our producers to work on that.

I am willing,

and I really believe that partially is that I said something like that.

He was in there.

He says, I've heard guys drop a game of words.

Anyhow, he's a patriot.

It really does.

He's a hockey guy that really wants this.

There's not make money.

That doesn't mean he's a hockey guy. Play soccer. No.

Now you

don't

look here and the phone to Jim

is this it's Jack mentioned in marketing

It's important

Jack management marketing.

Mike can handle it.

I mean, maybe you could speak to Mr.

Lazaridis.

He does not want me going in, Mike, with this.

At least tell me where you're going.

He was. How are we going?

Hang on. Is

all three things.

A widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone,

and a breakthrough Internet communications device.

An iPod, a phone

and an Internet communicator.

An iPod,

a phone.

Are you getting it?

These are not three separate devices.

This is one device

that we are calling an

iPhone

use for smartphones.

Right?

Motorola, Q, BlackBerry, Palm Trail, Nokia, 6.2.

The usual suspects, they have these keyboards

that are there, whether you need them or not to be there.

And they all have these control buttons that are fixed in plastic.

I mean, anybody want a phone without a keyboard?

What we're going to do is get rid of all these buttons

and just make a giant screen.

A giant screen, and you start shooting.

And Jean will be selling iPhone through our own stores

and through Cingular stores.

And it's my pleasure to introduce the

CEO of Cingular, Stan Singh.

But you know

what else, Stan Segment operating team?

You know, Steve and I first met about two years ago

in New York City when he shared with me this vision that he had from this product.

And we've been working on it for some time.

And actually.

All right, everybody, that's it.

Fun time is over. Back to work.

I need a prototype of the ball in my hand by Friday

with a working trackpad.

Thank you.

That's great.

Yeah. Hi.

Is that Douglas?

Yeah.

Yeah,

I'm the Securities and Exchange Commission,

and I was wondering if you answered the question for me.

Check, check, check.

The NOC.

We are involved in the hiring of a master class

at us. Sorry.

From where I'm from, ABC.

This is your first call?

Yes. Yeah.

Yeah.

You caught the wrong person.

I can help you with anything like that.

Is this Douglas Reagan?

Yes, ma'am.

I'm sorry.

I have you listed here as one of the founders of the company.

I Yeah, I guess I am. Yes.

I got to go.

Sorry, I'm unknown number.

No, Mr.

Balsillie? Yes?

Welcome to the NHL.

Thanks for having me.

Thanks to all of you.

Just this way

right

here. It's

all I've always said.

Get me on the phone with cops. Collison

at the Arena in Hamilton.

Yeah, tell me.

Want to buy it?

Yeah. Okay. Sorry.

I thought you were buying the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Yes, I am.

Let's go.

Okay, we got to go.

One sec.

This is. It is good enough. This is good enough.

Yahoo!

Is a marketplace for applications.

It's going to be third party developers.

Any any, any, any one got into certain time that I Bad, bad.

Back to the third party developers

don't

it's laggy as hell.

Good. Not good now.

Oh yeah we got it.

All right

Jeremy that the launch pad location on the market place.

Okay, so touch pad is working.

I don't know if I would say that.

It's working.

Working?

Well, Suit

2.4 inches for 80 by 368 the gay screen.

And to top it all off, the world's first track pad,

which we believe will be the dominant navigational device

for all mobile devices within the next two years.

The BlackBerry bold

let's it

I know that's what you

got for us. A trackpad.

Yeah you guys see

Apple's thing.

Any reaction to that kind of help?

It's an over design trying to do too much toy that will crush

any gullible enough to take it on it is by every metric,

the exact opposite of everything we do at Research in Motion.

Less data, no frills, reliable network.

Okay, that's BlackBerry's

sexy slogan, Mike.

So I guess you just want to kill your whole network.

That's what I would do.

Yeah. The iPhone.

They put a

keyboard right on the screen

as the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.

Ask anyone what they love most, their BlackBerry

and you will get the same answer every single time.

The keyboard, the click.

Okay, listen.

Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.

This entire market

was born of our innovation, our idea to put a keyboard on a phone.

We did that.

We built that from a pile of garbage in 1996.

So there that iPhone.

I don't know, like AT&T has got Apple.

We were kind of hoping you'd come in here with an iPhone killer.

I, I don't need to kill it because it's going to commit suicide

and it's going to take down the whole fucking Cingular network with it.

I'm giving you gold and I think you're all misunderstanding it.

I, I created this entire product class.

I created

this entire fucking market.

I created this entire product class.

So listen to me.

The trackpad is a mouse pad

built into the phone.

Yeah.

And. Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay, Good enough.

Thanks, guys, for coming down to us.

Will, we'll talk about this internally.

We'll get back.

You can tell Jim we missed him.

That's cool.

He's back.

Back in Waterloo working because.

So he promised me not to mention

the other thing.

We're not quite there yet, but we're working on some

pretty top secret.

He made me promise not to mention it.

Prototype.

We're still a few weeks out, but, you know,

I can demo it with our bold prototype.

So it's still a BlackBerry? It's our BlackBerry.

So except for where we have keys here, I'm screen.

The whole thing's a screen,

except

ours.

When you press it, you will get that.

That satisfying click

that BlackBerry click are trademark click.

So screen

keyboard phone

screen keyboard, home screen

keyboard color.

Are you getting it?

What? Stop.

What's that

already like?

What the fuck was that?

Dude, Where's that fucking little thing?

That's a 17,000.

But we're going to have. To 19 with not too much trouble.

All right? What? All this basketball shit gone?

From now on, this place is a permanent rink, huh?

We can't do that.

Why? We have active contract with a dozen, Carl KASELL.

Yeah, it's going to be fine.

I'll pay the fines.

I want that

to be my personal box.

It's not a box.

It's not a box.

Oh, oh, oh.

Okay.

So it's a screen, but it needs a raised hinge

or actuator, as I wrote between cans in the body.

So the entire device blinks when you press on it.

What?

Just wondering why we want to do that.

That that that is not the question you ask me here.

I don't.

Why Does not matter to you, okay?

Because I censor.

Because that's what I sold.

Okay.

Who are you, by the way? And he's like,

Oh, come on, guys, please.

Silent mode when we're at the office.

Phones off. Sorry.

Sorry.

Mike So, everybody

okay, so

you know what I think all this is, is we're trying to do the old BlackBerry

click while embracing the new iPhone screen.

That's all.

Oh, no, no.

We're not embracing anything to do with Apple,

guys.

It's really not hard.

Okay?

We pay you a lot of money.

This is really not hard.

It's a keyboard on a screen, on a keyboard.

And and

I don't care what you think of it.

Fuck it.

Don't talk about embracing what Apple is doing or don't understand.

Come back from New York.

Talk about a brand new phone I prototype in a week.

What are we going to talk to you?

It's a prototype, Charles.

I can build the fucking thing myself in the night.

I had to still go to work.

I said use the Onyx.

I did on Curve.

All right.

China, join with us.

Gets done.

I'm sorry.

I'm. Yeah, Fuck it.

All right, China,

China. Wait, wait.

No, no, he doesn't mean that.

Hey, don't.

Don't pay for me with my body doing.

Am I doing? I'm trying to keep our biggest fucking customer.

What the fuck are you doing, Mike?

I'm trying to help you. You're not. No, you're not.

You're not helping me. This doesn't help me.

If you could help me, we wouldn't be here.

I don't need your fucking to help anymore, okay?

You're fucking useless.

Okay?

Baker, I'm trying to

figure out China,

and I'll build the fucking thing myself.

But this is my brother, Eddie. Who is this?

My name is Derek Frankel.

I'm from the FTC.

We have a second.

Not really. Not right now. What?

What is this about?

I'm trying to track down some information on some stock options.

Your company is a Well, that's not.

I wouldn't know anything about that.

I think you want to talk to Jim. Okay.

Would there be a good

time to come in and talk about this now?

I don't know.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm here.

I'm here, I'm here. I'm Jack.

Management says he needs to see you.

Okay? Yeah.

Where is he? Camped outside your office

great

show.

Do me a favor.

Reach out to call Jankowski his office.

Let him know that

Jim Balsillie, he's got night tickets to the Hamilton Penguins for him.

I know how much he loves hockey.

All right, all right. Relax.

You got me. That same woman from the SCC keeps going.

Can I get your number?

No. Okay, so

first quarter,

second quarter, third,

quarter,

fourth quarter.

This is us.

Whose numbers are these?

Apple's internal projections.

They released the numbers on Friday,

$500 fully subsidized.

This is the most expensive phone in the world.

That's the highest consumer interest of any product in history.

We're going to go from number one phone in the world

to that phone that people had before

they bought an iPhone.

It's got to be fine,

Michael.

Figure it out. What

Why is the SCC looking at us?

They called you.

Yeah, something something about stock options. And

I'm sure it's nothing

and it's nothing.

Yeah.

What's with this apple thing?

What about it?

Are we worried?

Okay, Why?

Because one of them uses as much data as 5000 Blackberries.

Because it has no keyboard.

Because the thing is a joke.

So why are people telling me that they're about to kill us?

Is there any. Is

give me a meeting with Stan Sigman at AT&T.

Uh uh uh uh uh uh

uh uh.

What are you doing?

Okay, so the soonest I can get is next month.

His office said he's looking for a vocation today.

Tell him I'm coming to Atlanta right now.

Let's go. Let's go.

Tom will be there in an hour,

experiencing.

Gary, how are you?

We're ready to go over.

Yeah, So I'm going to get to New York.

Great.

Any time tomorrow.

How about today?

Oh, that might be a little tight for me.

I've got the board here now.

I don't know when they're all going to be together again.

If you want to wait until you and your deal.

Yeah. No, that works, Gary.

Oh, yeah, I'll be there.

Looking forward to it.

Okay.

Bye bye.

Change of plans. We're going to JFK.

We're down then.

Listen to me, you mouthing

fuck if I say we're going to JFK, we're going to JFK, you understand?

So we're not meeting with segment

at all.

Fuck.

Where's Jim? I have no idea.

But we're going get you out of here.

What? Five, six radius? What?

Give me your phone.

I wish that guy downfall.

Michael Lazaridis

can handle this rim.

We spoke on the phone.

Want to come and answer some questions?

Sure, sure.

After me.

Is it okay?

Okay.

Okay. What? What are they doing?

That's. That's.

They can't touch any of that stuff.

They can squeeze out everything.

Oh, what's the password, Mike?

Am I required to give that to, you

know, Are you hiding something?

Should I not have a lawyer or something with me for this?

Do you think you need a lawyer, Jim

Carey, It's.

Go get me.

Get me wipe out here, Jim.

Look, we're not going to waste your time here, okay?

It's not going to happen with you in the penguins.

What?

We had a vote with the other owners, and unfortunately, it went against you.

26 to 0. Hold on a second. Hold on, hold on.

I thought we had a deal.

When did the other owners even get one?

I'm sorry. What? What changed here, man?

The owners did not find you to be of character and integrity.

I don't know what the hell that means.

Karen. What the fuck is this?

You know what's funny?

It's one thing to have a secret plan to fuck over the NHL and move

a team to Canada.

It's another thing to brag to your rich friends before you actually do it.

You guys are so fucking stupid.

You know what?

Maybe I'll buy this whole fucking league, huh?

How about that, Don?

Can we see that, Mr. Bald selling it safely back to Canada?

Oh, fuck.

All you people.

Fuck you.

Get ready for a hostile takeover of this entire fucking league, okay?

You fuck.

You think I won't fucking do it?

I'm to Waterloo.

Well, vampires, I out.

Go, go, go, go, go. We'll never make it.

I said, let's go

DeLay segment I because these are you off a vacation

where I just said it's going to the airport.

Great.

So we.

And is this your signature

and this?

I don't know what you're looking for.

These are standard employment contracts.

I'm just wondering how you convinced

all these engineers from around the world to come all the way to Canada.

It doesn't make sense.

It's because they going to work on the best phone in the world.

Mike, on each of these contracts offers backdated stock options.

You were legally pricing your own shares so you could hire engineers with money

you didn't have.

Do you know what the sentence is for multimillion dollar stock fraud?

Okay, I swear I had no no idea about any of what you just said.

Do you expect me to believe that

your CEO

right.

Because you

tell me what it can wait another few weeks.

I'm telling you, stab at it for the terminal right now.

What? Hold up.

I get it. Seven.

Where are you?

Are you running the.

No, I'm good. I'm telling you.

Just give me the game.

I'm getting on a plane here and have a look.

It was a very high.

Here's the headline.

Half a million Blackberries for AT&T for $0 worth for cash.

No, no cash.

They're yours if you're willing to release them at a discount

one month before the iPhone

staff.

Come on.

You only sold a lot of minutes because of us.

Yeah, but you know what?

The problem with selling minutes is?

What?

There's only one minute and a minute.

All right? Okay, listen to me. I think we've got a big problem here.

I know what Apple's doing.

We can talk on the phone. Why?

And we're

like, we're in trouble with the FCC, but

get back as soon as you can.

I have a way to get us out of this.

Okay. So listen,

AT&T knows exactly what they're doing.

They want Apple to give them a data monster because that's

they're going to move the market.

They're not selling minutes anymore, Mike.

They're selling data.

He's here.

Who's that?

They're waiting for you next door.

What? What did you do?

I made a deal.

The FCC gets you your board seat

and our focal operation in the criminal investigation.

And for that to leave us alone,

I want $83 million

in. You said

next door.

All right, so

you're

30, hoping

to keep

two people, so

make me feel bad.

Sorry,

but I

don't like

every

one of my

sons needs

to be auto show.