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Steve Jobs: The Beginning, 1955-1985 (Part 1 of 3)
- Hontano 15y agoThese are a very well written set of articles. Heartwarming. At Apple, Jobs inspired without inspiring much love. “He’d stop by and say, ‘This is a pile of shit’ or ‘This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen,’” Andy Hertzfeld, who helped develop the Macintosh, told Moritz. “The scary thing was that he’d say it about the same thing.” The people at Apple had a name for that behavior, too: “the shithead-hero roller coaster.” That phrase always makes me chuckle. Time to re-read a few folklore.org entries. Single page links for the three parts: Part 1: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-beginning-19551985-10062011.html http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-beginning-1... Part 2: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-wilderness-19851997-10062011.html http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-wilderness-... Part 3: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-return-19972011-10062011.html http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-return-1997...
- threepointone 15y agoThank you for the links.
- dennisgorelik 15y ago6. Since its IPO in 1980, Apple’s stock price has jumped from $22 to $378.25 a share. The author forgot about two 2:1 splits. It would be more correct to say that AAPL grew from $3.6 to $378.25 a share. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL
- mynameishere 15y agoThe fruitarian diet, Jobs was convinced, purged his body of impurities and thus eliminated the need to bathe. Rather than fire him, Alcorn had Jobs come in after hours so the other employees didn’t have to deal with him. That...must have been an awkward conversation.
- marquis 15y agoReading this, makes his legacy make all the more sense, and one might imagine taking such massive chances and bets. Inspiring and sobering.