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How Apple works: Inside the world's biggest startup - Fortune Tech
- ethank 15y agoI love this article and having worked with Apple on the outside (from the music business) it rings true. It was really interesting to see where the two businesses collided because at heart, Steve Jobs operates a lot like a music executive: decisive, intuitive and driven by taste, not market. However he was able to shape the company around that vision holistically where because of the mergers and such in the music business, that mentality only pervaded labels, not corporate. As a label exec once said to me in a moment of frustration: "he treats technology like I treat music, and we depend on each other in certain aspects of our business. But he has a lot more business outside of mine and I hate him for it."