Martin Cooper

As I mentioned before, the first batteries we had were huge.

the result was the first cell phones weighed two and a half pounds when you talk about a modern cell phone at eight to ten ounces so the batteries were important large-scale integrated integrated circuits the chip that drives the power of a modern cell phone has over two billion transistors on it

That first cell phone that we built measured the number of transistors in the thousands.

Not really.

First of all, Michael, I'm not complaining at all.

I've got lots of recognition and I'm very proud of

of the small contribution I made, but it took tens of thousands of people to create the technology that what we call a cell phone today.

When I joined Motorola in 1954, I had to sign a piece of paper.

They gave me $1 and all of my intellectual property, any ideas that I came up, any inventions I came up that were Motorola's property.

It was the best deal I ever did, Michael.

Because for 30 years, Motorola tolerated me, tried to make an executive out of me and failed miserably.

But they let me generate ideas, build new products, and have a lot of fun.

And I'm very grateful to Motorola

So I'm totally satisfied.

Thank you, I really appreciate it, Michael.

I'm sincere, you really did a nice job and you were a smart guy.