Steve Jobs

“You can't spot these people at the beginning of their careers. You can spot them maybe in the middle of their careers. So there has to be past track record of somebody who's intuitive and right over and over again. Once you found that, that's based, based on a…”

“You know, I like Walter Isaacson. I think he's a very fine biographer, but You know, even like the Steve jobs that he's rushed, he's got to write it because she just died. And like, I don't really feel like when I read that book, I understand the man, Steve jo…”

“To build the last means at some point you have to stop being the time telling entrepreneur and become the one who can build the clock that doesn't depend on you anymore. That's what Steve Jobs did.”

“And one of the things that I think is a great message of Steve Jobs' life, if you watch the arc, is there was a Steve Jobs, one point O and a Steve Jobs, two point O. And most people only know the one point O because all the sort of immature behavior from when…”

“He wanted Apple to be a great and lasting company that its ultimate proof would be that it didn't need him.”

“I think charisma helps, but I think it's more about the power of the vision. So, you know, Steve Jobs, super charismatic, obviously, but Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, I wouldn't say are, you know, a standard deviation, more charismatic than most people. But …”

“Part of what's gone wrong in modern Silicon Valley is that everybody believes he's the rule, right? So all sorts of character flaws have become forgivable, because hey, look at Steve Jobs, and look what he did. And flaws have almost become a good thing, becaus…”

“I know that being really brutal and intellectually honest is important. First of all, you motivate them, you drive them, you let them know where they're not performing and how they can, and you make sure that you don't have a team, as Steve Jobs said, that's f…”

“These type of people who realize that God is in the details, those are the people who make great advances, and I put Leonardo in that category. I put Ben Franklin, Steve Jobs in that category, Jennifer Doudna, as she's trying to understand the inner workings o…”

“He asked the 30 engineers on the team to sign their names onto a whiteboard that they engraved on the inside of the case, where nobody would ever see it, nobody would ever know, but their signatures were on the inside of the case.”

“He said, if you make a real, if you really focus on making profit, you're going to cut corners. You're going to do things. You'll juice up your revenues. You'll cut your costs a little bit. You'll make a profit, but that way is a path to a disaster. He said, i…”

“Something that he shared with Steve jobs who would hold up shipping the original Macintosh because the circuit board inside was not beautiful enough.”

“Steve Jobs who designed the Pixar headquarters to make sure Everybody had to walk through the atrium and pump into people and exchange ideas to the Apple headquarters.”

“In fact, when people would come up to me, and they'd say, I used your Steve Jobs book, like Elizabeth Holmes would, the person who invented Theranos launch Theranos. Say, oh, I use your Steve Jobs as a how-to book.”

“Leonardo da Vinci, and Ben Franklin for that matter, were not necessarily the highest powered Intellectual firepower people of their time. Leonardo. Probably not as great of a, you know, intellectual as Luca Pacioli, his friend who was a mathematician. But wha…”

“Smart people are a dime a dozen, and they don't usually amount to much. The real key was being creative, to be able, as Steve Jobs would say, to think different and to be innovative”

“And I think that's where the disconnect comes that we love to copy end states And never copy journeys.”

“I think a visionary is somebody, in contrast, who has recognized when the stepping stones actually have snapped into place. Now, that's a person you should follow, and that's a very interesting and unique kind of person. It's a different kind of a person, and …”

“There are some who I think I'm sure you've heard about the Steve jobs reality distortion field, right? I think that's actually been pretty negative overall to the like startup ecosystem, because I think that people have heard that as Steve jobs, didn't embrace…”

“So it's really applying that filter rather than I got too many things going on. There just aren't too many insanely great things. So it will naturally sort itself to a small set, you know.”

“I'm sure you've heard about the Steve Jobs reality distortion field, right? I think that's actually been pretty negative overall to the like startup ecosystem, because I think that people have heard that as Steve Jobs didn't embrace reality and Steve Jobs I ac…”

“Or really successful people who violate those norms get modeled. And it's like, whoa, like Elon Musk could violate all the norms he wants. Steve Jobs can too. But like, you can't, you don't have that authority. You don't have that, that contextual understandin…”

“I remember my father telling the story about these hippies in his office at fiduciary trust company, you know, in, in downtown New York, respectable trust bank. And he said, this guy shows up in sandals. In sandals. He couldn't believe it. He said, how can a g…”

“And then HubSpot a lot is based on his work. We started the company out of Sloan while we were a business school and it's Sloan, they did field trips and we did a field trip to the West coast... And then he talked about how we came up with the iPod and kernels…”

“When Jobs introduces the iPhone in 2007, his first sentence on stage is, I've been waiting two and a half years to share this with you today.”

“Well, you know, I designed the first store with him, because he designed an ugly store, and I, we went in, and I told him, get a warehouse. Build a store so we can design it together.”

“And he called me one day, and he said, I'll join the Gap Board if you join my board. Deal.”

“For an early tech team, I almost used, like, this Apple framework of Jobs, Wozniak, and Cook, right? Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple together. Steve Jobs was known as somebody who really was great at setting the vision and direction, but also was ju…”

“Standards were standards, and Anna's standards to nearly everyone appeared unreasonable. And also, just like Steve Jobs, that made everyone work harder, and be better, and pulled out the best version of themselves.”

“Outliers don't have work-life balance. They have standards that follow them everywhere.”

“We started to move from what's the color of the package on the shelf to how is this product going to be consumed? How is it going to be used? How is it going to be carried? How is it going to be stored on the shelf? How is it going to be stored in the pantry a…”

“And I got a call from U.S. Customs saying, hey, we just talked to Steve Jobs and he's really pissed about this. You need to explain where you got this data. Sort of like threatening to show us out.”

“Woz writes, the whole thing used 45 chips, and Steve paid me half the 700 bucks he said they paid him. They were paying us based on how few chips I could do it in. Later I found out he got paid a bit more for it. Like a few thousand dollars than he said at the…”

“So they started selling these little blue boxes for 150 dollars each, splitting the revenue. It was their first business together.”

“Job's closed system only worked because Wozniak's open system funded them. The Apple II kept the company alive for years. Its profits bankrolled everything that came after. Those eight expansion slots Wozniak fought for Became the financial engine that allowed…”

“The lesson of all tech is that loads and loads of geeks compete through, for technological numerical superiority by some measure or other, And then someone else comes along with a cute user interface and makes all the money. It's basically Steve Jobs. Yeah. No…”

“He's got over a hundred million, I think.”

“Yeah, so the open one that Wozniak had created where people could put their own components in, take it apart, that was keeping them afloat. And Steve's version of the computer, which was closed and sort of more controlled, which is a theme I think we're gonna …”