Movie Mondays: General Magic

About Movie Mondays: Join us for Movie Mondays at The Basement, a quarterly film series showcasing inspiring and thought-provoking movies centered around entrepreneurship. Enjoy a featured film with free popcorn and other favorite movie snacks, then stick around for an engaging post-movie discussion led by Jacques Chirazi, Director of Student Entrepreneurship, and Greg Horowitt, Director of Innovation Design, where we dive into the entrepreneurial themes and ideas explored on screen. Don't miss this chance to relax, connect, and get inspired! Feautred Film: General Magic Synopsis from [hidden]. In 1990, at a secretive Silicon Valley start-up, a small and passionate group of innovators and engineers formed to build a magical device that would enable anyone to connect everyone to everywhere and everything – a personal computer in your pocket. General Magic, though relatively unknown, is considered by many to be one of the most influential innovation startups in the history of technology. This pioneering team—featuring visionaries like Tony Fadell (co-creator of the iPod and iPhone, founder of Nest, author of Build), Megan Smith (former White House CTO, founder of shift7), Marc Porat (original visionary of the smartphone), Andy Hertzfeld (software engineer, original Macintosh team), and Joanna Hoffman (marketing, original Macintosh team)—created the first smartphone and laid the foundation for many of the 21st century's most transformative communication and digital technologies. More Info below.