• last year
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.
Transcript
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.
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