[Recorded May 6, 2022] A decade before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, a tiny team of renegades attempted to build the modern smartphone. The 30-minute documentary Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone tells their story, complete with big aspirations, bad decisions, and outside disasters. Join us for a screening of the documentary and a panel discussion featuring Host Nilay Patel with Dieter Bohn and two key players in the story: Donna Dubinsky and Ed Colligan. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN -Dive into the rat race of the late ‘90s internet, before the tech monoliths were set in stone and when many futures seemed possible. -Hear the story of the people whose ideas are inside the phones you use every day. -Learn how what Donna Dubinsky calls “the biggest mistake of my career” forced the company to find a buyer. WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US Nearly forgotten by history, a little startup called Handspring tried to make the future before it was ready.  Their story casts light on questions that continue to impact technology today: -If a company’s products don’t succeed, is the company a failure? -If a company goes out of business, does that mean they have the wrong ideas? -What are the risks and rewards of being early to market? Watch the full documentary at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9_Vh9h3Ohw Catalog Number: 102792685 Acquisition number: 2022.0076