271 Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2022-10-12
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“If you could take something complex and a little bit scary and domesticate it, make it easier for the customer to immediately…”
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Focus
“'My whole philosophy is very simple,' he told a few generals during the war.”
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People
“I like the fact that he likes to fight, that he won't back down, and he knows that it's important because you're…”
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Persistence
“The fact that then I pick up the book, the Becoming Steve Jobs book, years later, or two or three years later…”
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Capital
“She actually grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and in that book, the author makes the argument that New Bedford, Massachusetts, was…”
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