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> Jobs or Musk in 2010 were tasked to turn Yahoo around Assuming either of them was actually given the mandate to do so by the board of directors, etc, I imagi
by visakanv 11y ago
> Jobs or Musk in 2010 were tasked to turn Yahoo around
Assuming either of them was actually given the mandate to do so by the board of directors, etc, I imagine they'd fire like 50-80% of the staff, get rid of anything that's not profitable, and produce one highly refined product at a time, something that hasn't been done well before.
Source: Am both a Jobs and Musk fanboy and have done an unhealthy amount of reading about their histories and decision-making. I particular like this video of Jobs at NeXT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNfRgSlhIW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNfRgSlhIW0
- sireat 11y agoThat was a really good video and I say that as someone who is no fan of Jobs. Did NEXT manage to execute the plan and sell 50k workstations in 1991?
- tim333 11y agoSeems not - from Wikipedia "The NeXT computers experienced relatively limited sales, with estimates of about 50,000 units shipped in total" "NeXT withdrew from the hardware business in 1993 " So I'm guessing more like 20k.
- codexjourneys 11y agoAlong these lines, here's an interesting quote about Steve Jobs' focus from a documentary photographer who had access to NeXT: "...it seems to me that, in general terms for Steve, he was so passionate about the goal and trying to invent something impossible that everyone had to be on this mission to Mars, and if you weren’t on the mission you didn’t need to be here. It was really a focused approach, so it wasn’t about me or you or hard feelings or anyone. It was about the thing and making the thing better." Read more at: http://nextshark.com/doug-menuez-who-spent-3-years-with-steve-jobs-reveals-what-he-was-like/#rmns http://nextshark.com/doug-menuez-who-spent-3-years-with-stev...