Masa's entire life is about spotting waves before anyone else. At Berkeley, he gave himself just 5 minutes every morning to think of revolutionary ideas. He created the first electronic translator and sold it to Sharp for $1.7M. https://t.co/pP4PINm29k
Edison wasn’t a grand planner. He was a prolific tinkerer, combining parts in ways he didn’t quite understand, confident that little discoveries along the way would be combined and leveraged into more meaningful inventions.
Livingston: If you were doing things that were so ahead of their time, how were you so successful? Lazaridis: The tricky part was, how do you intercept a market trend? How do you intercept an industrial trend? How do you package what you've learned and what's happening in the technology space so that it has new value to customers? How do you find t
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