Also, it seems Satoshi had something for online wallets. Something Gavin isn't really excited about.
New users wouldn't really even need the Bitcoin software. They could download a miner, create an account on mtgox or mybitcoin, enter their deposit address into the miner and point it at anyone's pool server. When the miner says it found something, a while later a few coins show up in their account.
Those were very different times.
What he should have said was, "a while later, a few coins show up in Tom's account".