40 Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2018-10-02
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“He's in it to make the best products possible, and if he makes the best products possible, then of course money will…”
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Focus
“as he was concerned, and then he'd turn it over to others whose attention had, whose attention he had enlisted and who…”
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People
“People are gonna be in line, and then, uh, they'll come to you." He's basically-- He said something along the lines like…”
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Persistence
“Um, we're gonna talk about how he invented, uh, pr-several products for them, uh, during World War II and after and how…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“They print money, and as such, they can invest in these things, but you can't invest in them before you have that…”
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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