Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky is an American businesswoman who played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistantsserving as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in 1995. Dubinsky co-founded Numenta in 2005 with Hawkins and Dileep George, based in Redwood City, CA. Numenta was founded to develop machine intelligence based on the principles of the neocortex. Dubinsky currently serves as CEO and board chair of Numenta...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth4 July 1955
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We are pleased with the results of the quarter, particularly our ability to achieve revenue growth in what is usually a sequentially down quarter in our industry.
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I mean, they sort of refused to come to the table with any incremental capital. They would have loved for us to be acquired just get their money out and be gone.
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Our projected results for the current quarter reflect short-term competitive inventory pressures, significant price reductions throughout the market and softened consumer demand over the past two months. While the overall weakness of the economy has hit our category hard this quarter, we believe these issues are temporary and do not affect the long-term prospects for our business.
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We are pleased to report such outstanding results in our second quarter as a public company. We continue to see broad acceptance of our products and the Springboard platform across all regions of the world. We feel very positive about our position as we head into the holiday season.
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We recognize that uncertainty regarding Palm's future pricing creates uncertainly for Handspring's near-term sales and margin outlook, and to the extent that we need to respond, we will.
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Our mantra was simplicity.
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It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.
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Venture capitalists wouldn't fund us because it wasn't wireless.