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Parrish: Steve Wozniak remains on Apple's payroll in a ceremonial position
“Steve Wozniak left Apple in 1985, and to this day he remains on Apple's payroll in this ceremonial position.”
Viral Apple leak drove ImportGenius to $50K monthly revenue
“We got within a week, we were doing like 50,000 dollars in monthly revenue. Like all of a sudden, you know, from zero to 50,000 in a couple of weeks.”
Venture Capitalist Arthur Rock Helped Take Teledyne Public in 1961
“Teledyne stock went on the market in 1961 with Arthur Rock,
Who would later become famous for backing Intel and Apple, helping in the IPO.”
Halligan: HubSpot was modeled on Steve Jobs's integrated iPod strategy
“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…”
Davis's father refused to invest in Apple because Steve Jobs wore sandals
“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…”
Isaacson: Steve Jobs engraved 30 engineers' signatures inside Macintosh case
“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.”
Isaacson: Jobs designed Pixar and Apple headquarters to force serendipitous encounters
“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.”
Steve Jobs Held Over $100 Million When Forced Out of Apple
“He's got over a hundred million, I think.”