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Wasn't he just kind of a hippie back then? Not surprised an ad exec didn't like him in those days.
by 52-6F-62 8y ago
Wasn't he just kind of a hippie back then?
Not surprised an ad exec didn't like him in those days.
- GuiA 8y agoFor a while, when he was at Atari, Steve walked barefoot and didn't shower, thinking his fruit only diet would lead to no body odor. That would roughly coincide with the time period of this anecdote.
- danmg 8y agoDidn't he also wash his feet in the toilet?
- xkjkls 8y agoYeah, he like never bathed and smelled all the time. I don't care who you are, but I'm always going to be skeptical of people you can't figure out basic hygiene
- tabtab 8y ago"Startup" people and "the suits" often don't see eye-to-eye, even today. Paul Graham describes how Yahoo's "anti hacker suit-culture" did Yahoo in. (paraphrased) He wrote: "That's why people proposing to destroy [hacker culture] use phrases like "adult supervision." That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example."