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TechStuff Classic: The Comcast Story: Part One

TechStuff

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Tech News, Technology, News

4.31.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Comcast is a powerful player in the cable and Internet space. How did the company get its start? And how did cable television take off in the first place?

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Marissa Thalberg, and I'm Stephen Wolf Fadeira.

0:03.3

Come join us for our podcast brand new.

0:05.1

So what's really new about brand new?

0:07.6

Well, Stephen and I are not only long time C-suite executives, we're friends.

0:11.9

Because of that, we've got a lot to say about tech entertainment, advertising, media,

0:15.9

and marketing, what we call teen.

0:17.6

It's real talk from the inside, personal talk too, and it's meant for everyone rising in business

0:23.2

or just interested in it.

0:24.6

Just look for the brand new podcast wherever you listen.

0:26.7

It's a brand new conversation you won't want to miss.

0:30.1

We're supposed to learn from our own mistakes that other people's errors can be instructive

0:34.8

too, from efforts to control the weather that went disastrously awry to the untimely

0:40.2

death of the Segway boss.

0:42.0

History is a treasure trove, mishaps and meltdowns that can teach us all.

0:46.6

I'm Tim Halford, host of cautionary tales, the podcast that mines the greatest fiascoes

0:52.3

of the past for their most valuable lessons.

0:55.9

Listen to cautionary tales on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get

1:01.2

your podcasts.

1:02.9

Mothers and daughters, it's always a complicated relationship.

1:07.5

At that moment, I fell in love with heroin, like I spent so much of my life trying so hard

1:12.8

not to be like you.

1:13.8

Oh my god, I don't want to do this right now.

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