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BlackBerry
The story of the revolutionary mobile phone BlackBerry - its birth, rise, and fall. In 1996, in the Canadian city of Waterloo, Ontario, Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin run a small technology company called RIM, developing a device called PocketLink, essentially a type of pager. They are technologically skilled but lack business acumen and need an investor. They approach manager Jim Balsillie. He presents their product - PocketLink to his company, but the presentation does not go well and they are turned down. However, Balsillie has a strong business instinct.
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The story of the revolutionary mobile phone BlackBerry - its birth, rise, and fall. In 1996, in the Canadian city of Waterloo, Ontario, Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin run a small technology company called RIM, developing a device called PocketLink, essentially a type of pager. They are technologically skilled but lack business acumen and need an investor. They approach manager Jim Balsillie. He presents their product - PocketLink to his company, but the presentation does not go well and they are turned down. However, Balsillie has a strong business instinct.