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Apple very nearly catered. Nobody would be quoting Job had that happened (NeXT was dying too which is why Apple could buy it). There is a crazy amount of surv
by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Apple very nearly catered. Nobody would be quoting Job had that happened (NeXT was dying too which is why Apple could buy it). There is a crazy amount of survivor bias here.
- jen20 3y agoThe quote could equally have been about Pixar, another wildly successful company of which he was the CEO.
- bart_spoon 3y agoAnd yet isn’t Pixar famous for their intensive, structured process for movie development?
- JKCalhoun 3y agoYeah, from what I've read Pixar's success seems to have had more to do with "management" getting completely out of the way.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoI'm not sure. The first success (Apple) may have been in large part right-place/right-time (and by right place: friend of Wozniak). But his second big success (Apple's rebirth) I kind of have to give Jobs all the credit. It looks as though none of the CEO's that came before Jobs could save the company the way Jobs seemed to single-handedly come back and do it. To be sure though he had wandered the desert for years and learned a lot of hard truths. That no doubt made him the capable decision maker he turned out to ultimately be in the end.