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This feels like someone trying to do something they thought Steve Jobs would do.
by lenerdenator 2y ago
This feels like someone trying to do something they thought Steve Jobs would do.
- yieldcrv 2y agospend a little bit of time in SF or the peninsula and you’ll see that’s a common thing there unless you’re running a company into the ground and getting a bailout from your rival who is trying to delay an antitrust suit, then you’re not doing Steve Jobs correctly
- lenerdenator 2y agoIt's usually people who never worked for Steve or ever got to meet him who seem to take this approach. Their company isn't just a business, it's a cult, and they're the Founder (notice the capital "F") and part of being in charge of this cult is asserting dominance over others. Steve knew to rarely pull this outside of tech executive circles; the new generation doesn't seem to keep it in SV. Musk is the go-to example but Altman's turning that way too.
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- k1t 2y agoDoes this mean Mitchell Baker is doing Steve Jobs correctly?
- staunch 2y agoSteve Jobs was a superficial asshole but was fundamentally a good and ethical person. There's only one major ethical mistake documented in his entire life (being an absentee father while his first daughter was young), which he spent decades making amends for. The people that emulate Steve Jobs poorly are usually real assholes with a long list of ethical mistakes.
- P_I_Staker 2y agoHe has a whole laundry list of sleezy actions and abusive behaviors.
- hot_gril 2y agoI agree, that and the "no cold call" agreement (which equally involved other CEOs). If I were that famous, someone would probably pick out all my missteps and make me out to look like a horrible person too. The most iconic superficial Steve Jobs impersonation was the Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
- CamperBob2 2y agoWell, those, and that one time when he ripped off Woz, but yeah, great guy, except for all those incidents.
- jedberg 2y ago> There's only one major ethical mistake documented in his entire life (being an absentee father while his first daughter was young) Jobs lied to Steve Wozniak. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to make Breakout for Atari. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350.
- lenerdenator 2y agoIIRC Jobs also later blamed Wozniak's head injury from a plane crash for him not remembering several good things Jobs did for him, as a cover for those things never happening.
- rqtwteye 2y agoThere is also the story where early Apple employees didn’t get any stock and Wozniak gave some of his.
- staunch 2y agoThings are always more complicated than this... As a rule, Apple gave stock to employees prior to the IPO, many of whom got rich. But some employees weren't eligible according to the criteria Steve (really, the board) came up with, and so they did not receive stock. Their criteria were typical for the time. Woz and a few others felt bad about this and shared some of their stock. Whether those ineligible people "deserved" stock is a matter of judgement...