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There's multiple legends of CEOs famously shunning the rational advice of their team and charging down a path they believe in. You're a genius if it works out (
by everdev 8y ago
There's multiple legends of CEOs famously shunning the rational advice of their team and charging down a path they believe in. You're a genius if it works out (ie. Steve Jobs) and second guessed if it doesn't.
- xraystyle 8y agoThe problem here is that Evan isn't Steve Jobs so much as he's just cargo-culting Steve Jobs without really understanding why Jobs was successful. Steve was able to see untapped markets, holes that could be filled by new products, completely different ways of doing things. Most of Apple's biggest successes were had by coming up with something completely new and novel, not by ignoring user feedback when iterating on an existing product.
- vkou 8y agoThe iPhone was new and novel in what way, exactly? It was an iterative improvement on the Blackberry.
- opportune 8y agoThe UI experience was completely unparalleled at the time
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- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago> Steve was able to see untapped markets, holes that could be filled by new products, completely different ways of doing things. One could say the same about Snapchat's astronomical success in its early days...
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