134 Edwin Land (Polaroid vs Kodak) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2020-07-01
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“He, he hired a paid critic to make Sony's products better.”
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Focus
“He could take complex, he could take complex ideas, but also explain them in simple s- more simple ways, ways that you…”
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People
“"This master plan must be supported by the efforts of many others," the people that they hire, right?”
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Persistence
“This is something he lived and breathed every day for 50 years, where even if you, you know, the, the, the, the…”
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Capital
“At this time, they make very little money in the hardware, and 60 to 80% margins on...”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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