Erika Beras
speaker
1,065 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Erika Beras’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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His dream had come true.
He was hired as a software engineer in the hardware team at General Magic to make the first smartphone, this thing that was going to change the world in 1991.
Hello and welcome to Planet Money.
I'm Erika Barris.
And I'm Emma Peasley.
General Magic had everything.
The vision, the talent, the money.
But having everything might have been its undoing.
Today on the show, what the push to create the first smartphone can teach us about how genius ideas come to life or don't.
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General Magic was creating basically an iPhone, but in the early 90s.
At that time, I was carrying quarters around to use payphones.
Computers were in like 15% of American homes.
And yet, here was General Magic creating this ultimate portable interconnectivity device where from your palm, you'd call people, send them faxes.
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