Steve Jobs

“They were actually a beta test site for Steve Jobs Next, because they were one of the first trading kind of franchises to really embrace technology and compute power.”

“I think Steve Jobs was born. I don't think you can study to become Steve Jobs. I would say the same about Elon Musk. But that said, I do not believe that charisma is digital. I don't believe that you either have it or you don't. Because I've seen enough people…”

“Because there has never been in American history a reaction to the death of a CEO the way the country, and indeed the whole world, reacted to the death of Steve Jobs. I mean, there were people, Ted, you may remember this if you were walking past an Apple store…”

“I think that the need for charisma is actually going to increase, not decrease, and here's why. The people who are going to create whatever it is that's coming down the pike are going to be knowledge workers, and they're going to have to be really smart. If yo…”

“And the first three months I was there, we took Genentech Public. We took Apple Public. I carried Steve Jobs bags on the Apple IPO Roadshow, and I was just exposed to the two of the most amazing entrepreneurs ever, and I fell in love.”

“To me, a community is not when you look up to a leader like Steve Jobs. It's when you bump into somebody at a bar, and they're interested in that topic, and you actually feel an affinity. And that's how the PC felt back then, and that's how crypto feels today.”

“They wanted to open up their first Apple store in our building, and we were very close to wrapping up a deal with someone else. We spoke to Steve Jobs, and he explained his vision for the business, which, to be honest, is exactly what turned out to be the case…”

“There is no substitute for that, particularly if you're going to hold it for a long, long multi-decade period. It needs to be a good business. I don't know that we are one of these people like a Steve Jobs or someone that's really, really smart and the genius …”

“If you watch Steve Jobs' 2007 iPhone launch, he uses steak, suspense, surprise, and humor. All four of them in the 1:06 minutes of the presentation. He does it masterfully and brilliantly. He's not really telling a story. He's bringing out a new product for a …”

“Jobs famously practiced for months on that performance. The crazy thing about it is he messes up on the second sentence. He actually speaks the fourth sentence second, cuts himself off, fixes it, and then goes back.”

“I spent five of some of the greatest years in life at that studio. I worked across dozens of films with some of the most incredible creatives of our generation. And also business leaders. I was working directly with and for Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull, John Lassete…”

“When we redesigned our studio in Emeryville, he was there every day. He took each one of our senior leaders, and he took them to the middle of the studio. This was the heartbeat of our studio, the common area. He pointed up and he said, see all of these window…”