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To the following - I guess I was focused on the prominent people, rather than the others who could fill in the blanks in his story but weren't well known. The only big names I hadn't met were Bushnell and Markkula, although I probably actually met them at conferences but don't remember it thirty years later.
and the list you gave is twelve of twenty-two. Both statements stand as given, side by side — that's the record's rule, and it costs nothing here, since twelve is still a remarkable number.
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Executed in v72g: the reconciliation paragraph on the film's page now carries this clarification — 'almost every single person' (S-182) meant the prominent names; the twelve of S-183 are those; Bushnell and Markkula are the only big names he had not met, with his own hedge ('probably actually met them at conferences but don't remember it thirty years later') preserved. Left for his word, not resolved: Charles Geschke (Adobe co-founder) and Paul Berg (Nobel laureate) are among the ten not on his list and are, by most measures, prominent — whether they belong with the 'not well known' group or were simply omitted is his to say.
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