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Jobs was fired from Apple, and a number of employees followed him to Next. Different, but that's the closest parallel.
by paulddraper 3y ago
Jobs was fired from Apple, and a number of employees followed him to Next.
Different, but that's the closest parallel.
- Wytwwww 3y agoOnly a very small number of people left with Jobs. Of course, probably mainly because he couldn't necessarily afford to hire more without the backing of a trillion-dollar corporation...
- _zoltan_ 3y agoApple back then was not a trillion dollar corporation.
- varjag 3y agoMicrosoft now is.
- dimask 3y agoImagine if Jobs had gone to M$.
- KerrAvon 3y agoNo, the failures at NeXT weren’t due to a lack of money or personnel. He took the people he wanted to take (and who were willing to come with him).
- Applejinx 3y agoGordon Ramsey quit Aubergine over business differences with the owners and had his whole staff follow him to a new restaurant. I'm not going to say Sam Altman is a Gordon Ramsay. What I will say is that they both seem to have come from broken, damaged childhoods that made them what they are, and that it doesn't automatically make you a good person just because you can be such an intense person that you inspire loyalty to your cause. If anything, all this suggests there are depths to Sam Altman we might not know much about. Normal people don't become these kinds of entrepreneurs. I'm sure there's a very interesting story behind all this.
- Solvency 3y agoAaand there you have it: cargo culting in full swing.
- xsmasher 3y agoI don't think you mean cargo culting. Cult of personality?
- checkyoursudo 3y agoCargo cult of personality? Little care packages of seemingly magical AI-adjacent tech washes into our browsers and terminals and suddenly a large and irrational following springs up to worship some otherwise largely unfamiliar personage.