Had just fired somebody that day, and I imagined what it was like for that person to tell his family
Great company must be able to impute its values from the first impression it makes.
Fired, abused, abandoned, or otherwise infuriated, and I feared he would not be comfortable with my getting them to talk. And indeed he did turn out to be skittish when word trickled back to him of
Finally decided on Integrated Electronics Corp. That wasn’t very thrilling, either, but it had the virtue that it could be abridged—as Intel.
Father figure to Jobs. REGIS MCKENNA. Publicity whiz who guided Jobs early on and remained a trusted advisor. MIKE MURRAY. Early Macintosh marketing director. PAUL OTELLINI. CEO of Intel who helped sw...
Engineer at Atari, who designed Pong and hired Jobs. GIL AMELIO. Became CEO
Creativity is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than from the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses.
Calculus
Build creative digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century wa...
Bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s
Began to cry, which was not unusual. He had never been, and would never be, adept at containing his emotions.
Began encouraging people to talk to me, even foes and former girlfriends. Nor did he try to put anything off-limits. I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant...
Been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison’s conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates’s philanthropic impulses nor the competitiv...
Beach bum with a bushy beard, wild hair, goofy grin, and twinkling eyes named Lee Clow, who was the creative director of the agency’s office in the Venice Beach section of Los Angeles. Clow was savvy...
Atomic power, radar, and the Internet—were spawned by the military.
Afternoon,
You shouldn’t whitewash it. He’s good at spin, but he also has a remarkable story, and I’d like to see that it’s all told truthfully.
You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
You did the impossible, because you didn’t realize it was impossible.
Woz,