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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.23,0:00:02.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Collaborative Genius]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.82,0:00:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you look at partnerships, first you \Nthink of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.60,0:00:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steve Jobs, a great marketer, the person\Nwith the design sense, and the flare.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.70,0:00:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wozniak, who could take very very few microchips\Nand make an amazing circuit out of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.08,0:00:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You always need to team people who have great\Nvision with people who know how to execute things.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.76,0:00:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's even true of the original computers.\NPeople like Presper Eckert, a great engineer,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.08,0:00:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working with a visionary like John Mauchly.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.71,0:00:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These names aren't know to as many people,\Nbecause they weren't single individuals
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.57,0:00:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you could carve on a pantheon,\Nor put on a magazine cover.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.61,0:00:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were usually teams\Nof people who worked together.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.27,0:00:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every now and then you run into an innovator\Nwho did not know how to collaborate.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.48,0:00:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody like John Atanasoff,\Nout in Iowa State.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.24,0:00:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was sitting there in a basement,\Ntrying to build a computer
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.08,0:00:57.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with just one graduate student helping him.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.78,0:01:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he never was able to get\Nthe punch card burners to work,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.25,0:01:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after he gets drafted into the Navy, \Nthe machine just sits there in the basement
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.06,0:01:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until somebody finally throws it away.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.67,0:01:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, if you don't have that team around you,\Nif you are unable to execute,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.50,0:01:16.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you get consigned to the dustbin of history.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.45,0:01:20.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A great team is one that has \Nmany players who can play many positions,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.84,0:01:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like a baseball team.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.56,0:01:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look at the founders of the United States,\Nyou had passionate people, like John Adams
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.31,0:01:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his cousin Samuel; you had really smart\Npeople, like Jefferson and Madison;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.93,0:01:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you had people of great rectitude,\Nlike George Washington;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.10,0:01:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, finally, somebody like Ben Franklin, who \Ncould be the glue who holds them all together.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.72,0:01:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that, to me, is a type of team that's\Nreplicated, whether it's Intel,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.39,0:01:48.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Gordon Moore, and Robert Noyce,\Nand Andy Grove;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.34,0:01:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Bell Labs, which has wonderful people who\Ncan do things like be information scientists
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.23,0:01:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as pole climbers with \Ngrease under their fingernails
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.20,0:01:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all working together as a team.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.43,0:02:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, when you look at the teams that created\Nthe great innovations of the digital age,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.26,0:02:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was usually not just one type of person,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.84,0:02:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a team that could pull together\Nwith many types of talents.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.97,0:02:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Walter Isaacson — The Innovators]