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  • 8/16/2023
Explores the incredible growth and tragic collapse of the world's first smartphone and how it smashed huge enterprises before surrendering to Silicon Valley's fiercely competitive companies.
Transcript
00:00 [siren wailing]
00:03 - Yeah, what can I do for you?
00:05 - Okay, picture a cell phone and an e-mail machine
00:08 all in one thing.
00:10 There is a free wireless Internet signal
00:13 all across North America,
00:14 and nobody has figured out how to use it.
00:17 It's like "The Force."
00:19 Sorry, have you seen "Star Wars"?
00:23 - No.
00:25 - That guy is sketchy.
00:29 - I don't think he's sketchy.
00:30 - The guy's a shark.
00:32 - I know how to market it,
00:33 and I know who we can sell it to,
00:34 but I want 50% of the company,
00:36 and I've gotta be CEO.
00:37 - I don't know who you think you are,
00:39 but deal.
00:40 - Are you joking?
00:41 - ♪ Riding on anywhere ♪
00:43 ♪ There's the lucky crab ♪
00:45 ♪ They don't believe it now ♪
00:47 - We are in a race to get this thing to market,
00:49 and we are a year behind.
00:50 I need a prototype.
00:51 - I'll do it perfectly, or I don't do it.
00:53 - Mike, are you familiar with the saying,
00:54 "Perfect is the enemy of good"?
00:57 - How good enough is the enemy of humanity?
01:00 - What are you calling it?
01:04 - It's called a BlackBerry.
01:05 - Hmm.
01:06 Try typing with your thumbs.
01:08 - ♪ You got it, you got it ♪
01:13 - Get this baby in the hands
01:14 of every Fortune 500 executive you can find.
01:17 We call them CrackBerries.
01:19 - ♪ Oh, how the pressure of the action is mighty ♪
01:22 - Sit, there's Doug. Come with us, sir.
01:24 - No. You wanna be great?
01:25 You need to sacrifice.
01:26 And the more painful the sacrifice,
01:28 the greater you'll be.
01:30 - If we put more phones on these networks,
01:33 they're going to crash.
01:34 - Is this legal?
01:35 - You need to sell a million BlackBerries.
01:38 - Uh...
01:39 - You are calling it by phone.
01:43 - I'm in the middle of a hostile takeover!
01:45 - Do you know where the sentence is
01:49 for multimillion-dollar stock fraud?
01:51 - What are you doing?
01:52 - I'm doing it all.
01:53 - You guys have no idea how to run a company.
01:56 - What's happening, man?
01:58 - I created this entire market.
02:01 - You said they were the best engineers in the world.
02:06 - I said they're the best engineers in Canada.
02:09 - What are they paying you?
02:13 - I shouldn't say.
02:14 - They're paying me $10 million.
02:16 - Yeah, me too.
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02:35 ♪♪♪♪♪
02:38 (upbeat music)

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