Steve Jobs

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Everything Steve Jobs said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Steve Jobs: Successful companies spent IT budgets on operational, not management, productivity
“The not so successful ones spent the majority of their money on management productivity, and the more successful ones spent the majority of their money on operational productivity.”
Steve Jobs Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 1:29 Why Does The World Need Another Computer? // Anant Bhardwaj, Instabase (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steve Jobs: Early PCs and Macs targeted management, not operational, productivity
“PCs and Macs never attacked operational productivity. They just attacked management productivity.”
Steve Jobs Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 2:05 Why Does The World Need Another Computer? // Anant Bhardwaj, Instabase (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)

The other half of the tape: Steve Jobs's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 15 times in 10 episodes on the MAD Podcast. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Benedict Evans 4Matt Turck 3Stephen Balaban 2Peter Semmelhack 1Matthew Prince 1Matt Ocko 1Ben Horowitz 1Amjad Masad 1

Statements about Steve Jobs, by other people (2)

Insight
Evans: AI product teams are strategy takers, not strategy setters
“You start from the technology. You don't control the product strategy, which is of course how science works, but you don't know what's going to happen. You don't know what's going to get built. You know, obviously you've got like Sam and Dario and so on are li…”
Benedict Evans Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 14:46 Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
Opinion
Turck calls Sam Altman the Steve Jobs of this generation
“It seems that Sam Altman, who's you know, the Steve Jobs of our generation, we're actually joking the, you know, Steve Jobs of the TikTok generation when you know, unlike Steve Jobs who was fired and came back years later, like he left and came back within a, …”
Matt Turck Apr 26, 2024 ▶ 18:23 Navigating the AI Landscape: A Survival Guide | 2024 MAD Landscape with Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer

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Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Steve Jobs was played rather than Steve taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

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Why Does The World Need Another Computer? // Anant Bhardwaj, Instabase (FirstMark's Data D Jan 17, 2019 1m clip played
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