Steve Jobs

… You know, there's the the famous, you know, you can talk about the famous stuff and the Steve Jobs, you know, the horses and you don't faster horses and all this stuff. But I think it's more important is it's often directionally wrong.

Steve Jobs put away the iPad because he thought that the iPhone was a better idea and timing wise is he actually made exactly the right call. You know, uh the i...

… And you know, Steve Jobs, you would say, is kind of rough and maybe not lovable, but he would inspire followership.

… seven years at Apple and learned under Steve Jobs when he was the CEO, learned what we called the death march, which is what we did to the engineers. It was like as soon as you shipped one version of...

… (00:33:17): There's some point where Steve Jobs declared Flash dead and then went Skeuomorphic, Swiss minimalist, and then we're stuck there. I think we're going to swing back to being way more exp...

… ly 20% % of people who come to this will see that and so the point of design is first simplicity and clarity before we get fancy and so there's a lot Steve Jobs embodied this fairly on I think iOS has become complicated but like start…

… And in fact, we often refer back to this Steve Jobs iPhone introduction slide where he talks about the iPhone and he makes a joke about it. This is a business school one-on-one diagram, but it's really...

… There's a story that I hear that you often tell, which is when somebody asked Steve Jobs once, what is your favorite product that you've built that you work on? And his answer, what's that story?

… I actually didn't realize I had uh spoken to Steve Jobs until like a couple minutes later. It was like well yeah someone called Steve from Apple.

… Steve Jobs said this awesome speech about, "It's like our form of giving back to the world is to try and do the best possible job we can and share it with the w...

… That's also something Steve Jobs would say all the time. Another bow to Steve Jobs here.

… 29): You know, we talk about taste, we all talk about taste, and it's about the beautiful pixels, and the perfect product, and the whatever else, the Steve Jobs-esque passion, and all of that, whatever it is. And yes, taste is about…

… Steve Jobs is my mentor. And when I talk about mentor, I don't mean just, hey, I'm a fan, or I like the products, or I read the biography.

… that's when he took the graphical user interface that he bought rights to from Steve Jobs and put it on, so you didn't have to do backslash backslash... You could actually point and click.

… So Nancy would show me how Steve Jobs's iPhone launch speech. She'd be like, "Okay, well now notice what he does.

… And his biggest contribution to life, as well as by the way to his personal wealth, is that he made Steve Jobs Steve Jobs. When Steve Jobs began, Steve Jobs couldn't convince you to buy water if you were dying of thirst.

… Why did somebody follow Steve Jobs? Why did somebody follow Ursula at Xerox?

… example, what Tim is doing is maintaining the dharma of Steve Jobs because if he had tried to change the dharma of Steve Jobs and the values of the company, it's very hard to imagine it sustaining itself forever.

… first of all, I would not put Steve Jobs in the same category as Ray Dalio and Elon Musk. I mean, Steve Jobs could be obnoxiously aggressive, but mostly I would say he built such good relati...

… one wasn't Steve Jobs, necessarily? It could be somebody else?

… (00:10:26): Ironically, I dropped out of Reed College, which is the same college that Steve Jobs dropped out of. So I was just destined for greatness.

… But the more common case is they're pleasantly surprised and that's what happened with Steve Jobs, as well. He was against phones but then people showed him all sorts of evidence that Apple can make a phone.

… Steve Jobs lore was that if you were in an elevator with him, you better be prepared to talk about what you do at the company because he had a habit of getting ...

… King and Steve Jobs's iPhone launch speech that was the same, that had the same type of nature of cadence and pulsing to it, for lack of a better word, that I knew I had...

… I actually think Apple was an interesting version of this, where Steve Jobs was oriented in terms of product and design, but also that Apple has... It's very intense to manufacture software and hardware that then works togeth...