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Steve Jobs sounds like an amazing asshole! I wonder if all celebrity CEOs (Bezos, Gates, Zuck, etc.) are like this in private interactions.
by dingo_bat 8y ago
Steve Jobs sounds like an amazing asshole! I wonder if all celebrity CEOs (Bezos, Gates, Zuck, etc.) are like this in private interactions.
- wilsonnb 8y agoProbably not, at least not as much. There's a reason Steve Jobs has always been notorious for this sort of behavior.
- gowld 8y agoAll of those CEOs are famous (and more) for being assholes. What made Steve Jobs different is that he also inspired a bizarre sort of love -- People want to be Gates/Zuck/Bezos, but no one dreams of working for them. And no one has a religious zeal for evangelizing their those CEOs' transparent marketing lies like they do for Jobs'.
- GeekyBear 8y agoDoes Gates and Ballmer seeking to screw Paul Allen out of his equity in Microsoft because Allen was distracted while in cancer treatment ring a bell?
- puzzle 8y agoThe most concise, yet illuminating description I have heard about ongoing relationships with Jobs is something similar to "dealing with Khrushchev, but without the shoe antics", i.e. that, to him, everything was a zero-sum game, all the time.
- JohnCarmack 8y agoZuck is very courteous and open to other people's perspectives. Gates was sharp and no-nonsense when I had a meeting with him. I haven't met Bezos.
- saagarjha 8y agoYou're probably being truthful here, but then again, would you say anything else if you weren't part of a subsidiary of Facebook?
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- neonate 8y agoHe could have just said nothing, so that seems like a loaded question.
- saagarjha 8y agoIt was a loaded question, but that doesn't mean that the post was necessarily unbiased. It could have been an attempt to get Zuckerberg to like him, say. Not a likely possibility, but one nonetheless.
- cookiecaper 8y agoPeople are fluid and dynamic. It's easy for anecdotes to get out and become solidified, but the reality is that psychology is rarely static, and different people interpret things in different ways. Expressive, objective, and committed people tend to assume that their inner sense of security and self-assurance is universal, and don't understand when people get offended at one-off comments, or associate a negative comment constrained within context A as something broadly/universally applicable (e.g., "This is crap" referring to thing A does not necessarily have any bearing on thing B, thing C, etc., even if they're from the same source). Personally, I think this is the reason that many successful people get labeled "assholes" by people who are less successful. The insecure take offense from little things and memorialize and repeat and nurse them as justifications for their own insecurities, whereas the supposed "offender" hardly realizes anyone has a problem. You can say it is bad not to elevate Everyone Else's Feelings to #1 priority if you want, but again, it only further solidifies the personality types. The insecure fret over their own insecurities, and the secure and self-assured don't take criticism personally, and focus on getting something real done.