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Speigal is yet another disciple of the Steve Jobs school of management. The idea that if you are an asshole to everyone and care a lot about fonts, you’ll repea
by vikingcaffiene 8y ago
Speigal is yet another disciple of the Steve Jobs school of management. The idea that if you are an asshole to everyone and care a lot about fonts, you’ll repeat the success of Apple. It’s a toxic notion of startup culture and it needs to die.
- simongr3dal 8y agoBut on some level it worked for Steve Jobs, arguably it worked two times. What are the differences that made it work out for Jobs, but didn’t make it work out for Evan Spiegel to the same degree?
- scarejunba 8y agoJobs was right more often and despite everything, people still wanted to work with him. I guess the answer is “you can be an asshole if you’re a once-in-a-generation product developer with charisma”. Otherwise, stick to the tried and tested ways of using a team as a lever. Perhaps in twenty years we will hear about “awful conditions at Tesla but I knew we were changing the world” or some such.
- ksec 8y agoHow about “You can be an asshole if you’re a once-in-many-generations product genius with charisma”. I have yet to see a SINGLE sign of Evan any where close to Steve Jobs quality. Evan may be good, but he is not a genius like Steve. The only one praising are his VC which during Pre IPO era were constantly spamming twitter about how good his Keynote and unseen since Steve passed away.
- scarejunba 8y agoYeah, I’m fine with that. Essentially, Steve Jobs was exceptional so everyone tolerated exceptionally shitty behaviour from him. If you’re not exceptional, nothing useful is going to come of acting the same way.
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