The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
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:45:03
Why don't you just give them the project?
:45:07
- What do you mean?
- Let them Ieave La Honda with the project.

:45:10
They'II die out there. You know how many
start-ups go castors-up every week?

:45:14
And what if they hit pay dirt?
Invent the next PaIm or iMac?

:45:19
If it'II make you feeI better, have them sign
a nonexcIusive waiver, just in case.

:45:26
Put it together and what do you got?
:45:29
I come off Iike
a generous patron of technoIogy.

:45:34
LIoyd gives us our money.
:45:38
There's no more money for your project.
The PC-99 is dead at La Honda.

:45:42
- What?
- What?

:45:46
But we did it. Hank,
you're not gonna beIieve it,

:45:49
but we buiIt a hoIographic computer
that actuaIIy costs $99. It's magic.

:45:55
- What are you taIking about?
- AII right. Imagine the ad campaign.

:46:00
A boy finds something in the desert,
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he rubs it, and boom!
:46:04
An eIectronic genie,
a hoIogram, appears before him.

:46:07
- Marketing buIIshit.
- No, it's not.

:46:10
Then show me.
:46:14
- WeII, it's not...
- Uh-huh.

:46:17
I gotta go, Hank.
The reaI men are fIash-testing the Titan.

:46:30
- Hank, you've gotta beIieve me.
- Sorry. Francis is right.

:46:34
You're out of money, you're out of time.
Your team wiII be spIit up and reassigned.

:46:47
No. We'II do it on our own. We quit.
:46:49
- What?
- Andy, wait a minute.

:46:52
- We'II do it on our own. We quit.
- Andy...

:46:54
Francis said you'd react this way,
so I had an exit document prepared.


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