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Blank: World-Class Silicon Valley Founders Are Antisocial and From Dysfunctional Families
“The data says the world-class ones, at least the ones that make it in Silicon Valley and the ones that get funded are completely antisocial and probably come from usually dysfunctional families.”
Steve Blank: Steve Jobs's second Apple tenure succeeded via operational executive buffers
“Jobs was still insane, but the second coming of Steve Jobs had an organizational level of world-class executors. Tim Cook, John Rubinstein, Avi, et cetera, were all people who could take that craziness and filter it down to an organization that provided a leve…”
Blank: Ballmer collapsed Microsoft OS share by missing mobile and search
“He basically took Microsoft operating system share from 98% to probably two percent today, right? If you now count mobile devices, right? They're just irrelevant. Because he was so focused on extending the windows ecosystem. They missed mobile. They missed sea…”