this stuff happen at different places, and these companies—no surprise—have
not prospered.
But, then again, I’ve seen companies that really have a lot of execution
problems. General Magic is a good example of that. They really did not execute
well in what they were doing. The product was very expensive; it was over
$1,000. It was heavy. The battery didn’t last long. The screen was not very
bright. And it was loaded with all sorts of features that were not really needed
by a mobile professional, which is what a PDA—this was 1990—was...

together, the whole company would have failed. And through those really difficult
things that I told you about, where we were running out of money, when
we got the certified letter of rejection from Sony—all those different things I
think would have easily knocked over a weaker triad. We persevered through all
of it, and we never stopped. None of us ever doubted that we were going to succeed.
And none of us ever stopped to question whether or not we trusted the
other. We never had to look at our back. And that...