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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Why are they going to want to put their money down?
Tony and David agree.
Sure, the technology may have been ahead of its time.
But David says a big part of what tripped them up was not having a clear picture of their customer.
And the fact that they weren't listening to what customers needed was compounded by who they were listening to.
That's the second problem David identified.
Too much money.
See, General Magic's idea was so revolutionary that it attracted the attention and money of a lot of powerful partners.
You know, those companies Tony was flying to visit, like Sony, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Philips, AT&T.
But what they were talking about was this product that they were locked into because they had so much investment from all these companies.
Like they hired way more people after Tony.
There's this principle called Brooks's Law.
It's named after Fred Brooks, who was a computer scientist.
He led the development of the operating systems that NASA used in the space program.
And Brooks's Law essentially says that when you add people to a project that's already late, it's going to be even more late.
The essentials.
And they spent a lot on materials.
General Magic was pretty much building everything from scratch.
Like at one point, Tony reinvented the technology that connected the remote to a TV, even though that had been around for many years.
I mean, what was the problem with all that?
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