Name: Movie Mondays: General Magic
Start: 2025-01-27T17:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-01-27T19:30:00-08:00
Location: UC San Diego - The Basement (Design & Innovation Building, 1st Floor)

Movie Mondays at The Basement is a quarterly film series showcasing inspiring and thought-provoking movies centered around entrepreneurship
About this Event

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 .

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 ), 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.

Directions to The Basement

This event is located on the first floor of the . The entrances are located across from the or next to the bus and trolley stop.

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MTS Trolley

The easiest way to get to the DIB is by taking the MTS trolley UC San Diego Blue Line and getting off at the UC San Diego Central Campus stop. The trolley stop is a short 1 minute walk to the DIB.

Parking

Public transportation is highly recommended as parking is limited on campus. If you plan to drive to campus, please give yourself plenty of time. You can download the ParkMobile app to pay for your space digitally once you find a spot.