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Working hours wouldn't matter. Steve was a very well connected CEO and probably better connected than most re: Japan. Canon was a significant partner with and
by blihp 5y ago
Working hours wouldn't matter. Steve was a very well connected CEO and probably better connected than most re: Japan. Canon was a significant partner with and investor in NeXT, for example. So it's not a stretch to imagine he knew connected people over there. All his secretaries probably needed to do was get in touch with the staff (more likely, the personal secretaries) of no more than a few of his contacts within a couple of degrees of someone high up at Nomura and say 'Steve needs a favor'. Someone knew someone and so on... and it's done.
- cududa 5y agoI always tell new founders to treat Executive Assistants as more important than the VC or exec they’re talking to. The elite ones all somehow know each other and talk. One particular EA that managed a billionaires life (he was on my board) and I became very close friends, she’s retired now, but there’s not a single powerful person she hasn’t managed to get me a meeting with, within a few days