The story of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the two men that charted the course of the spectacular rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:05 >> Yeah, what can I do for you?
00:07 >> Okay, picture a cell phone and an email machine all in one thing.
00:12 There is a free wireless internet signal all across North America and
00:17 nobody has figured out how to use it.
00:18 It's like the force.
00:20 Sorry, have you seen Star Wars?
00:25 >> No.
00:29 >> That guy is sketchy.
00:31 I don't think he's sketchy.
00:32 The guy's a shark.
00:33 >> I know how to market it and I know who we can sell it to.
00:36 But I want 50% of the company and I've gotta be CEO.
00:39 >> I don't know who you think you are, but deal.
00:41 Are you joking?
00:43 [MUSIC]
00:49 >> We are in a race to get this thing to market and we are a year behind.
00:52 I need a prototype.
00:53 >> I'll do it perfectly or I don't do it.
00:55 >> Mike, are you familiar with the saying perfect is the enemy of good?
00:58 >> How good enough is the enemy of humanity?
01:02 >> What are you calling?
01:05 >> It's called a Blackberry.
01:07 >> Try typing with your thumbs.
01:09 [MUSIC]
01:15 >> Get this baby in the hands of every Fortune 500 executive you can find.
01:19 We call them Blackberries.
01:20 [MUSIC]
01:24 >> Sit here, Snugglet, come with us here.
01:26 >> No, you wanna be great?
01:27 You need to sacrifice.
01:28 The more painful the sacrifice, the greater you'll be.
01:31 [LAUGH]
01:32 [MUSIC]
01:34 >> If we put more phones on these networks, they're going to crash.
01:36 >> Is this legal?
01:37 [MUSIC]
01:38 >> You need to sell a million Blackberries.
01:39 >> Uh-oh.
01:40 [MUSIC]
01:43 >> You guys calling it?
01:44 Five-four.
01:45 >> I'm in the middle of a hostile takeover.
01:47 [MUSIC]
01:49 >> Do you know what a sentence is for multimillion dollar stock fraud?
01:53 >> What are you doing?
01:54 >> I'm doing it all.
01:54 [MUSIC]
01:56 >> You guys have no idea how to run a company.
01:58 [MUSIC]
01:59 >> What's happening, man?
02:00 [MUSIC]
02:01 >> I created this entire market.
02:03 [MUSIC]
02:07 >> You said they were the best engineers in the world.
02:09 >> I said they're the best engineers in Canada.
02:11 [MUSIC]
02:14 >> What are they paying you?
02:15 >> I shouldn't say.
02:16 >> They're paying me $10 million.
02:18 >> Yeah, me too.
02:18 [MUSIC]
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