Steve Jobs

8 statements across 7 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jul 14, 2021 by Shaan Puri · said 203 times in 54 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Jul 14, 2021 negative
Insight
Sean Puri: Extreme greatness requires severe sacrifices in family and relationships
“Basically this stuff comes at a pretty big sacrifice for other things in life, family. Often you know, relationships, you know, it's hard to relate to people or spend time with friends or anything like that if you're doing this. So when you, so I'm like you, I…”
Shaan Puri Jul 14, 2021 ▶ 7:16 The Secret to Being Great | My First Million #199
Oct 18, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Parr: Play.ht created Podcast.ai to synthesize a Joe Rogan interview of Steve Jobs
“So it's a company called play.ht. But the, and the, one of their side projects is a thing called podcast dot AI. And basically what they did was they gave their AI algorithm or program, whatever you want to call it. They gave their program Steve jobs, his biog…”
Sam Parr Oct 18, 2022 ▶ 1:01 9 Business Ideas To Profit From The 2022 A.I. Gold Rush (Using Dall-E & GPT3) (#376)
Oct 18, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Parr: Steve Jobs predicted interactive AI models of thinkers in 1985
“So basically in 1985 here, this is a quote from Steve Jobs. He goes, my hope is someday when the next Aristotle is alive, we can capture the underlying worldview of that Aristotle in a computer. And someday some student will not be only be able to read the wor…”
Sam Parr Oct 18, 2022 ▶ 12:48 9 Business Ideas To Profit From The 2022 A.I. Gold Rush (Using Dall-E & GPT3) (#376)
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Steve Jobs Consistently Convinced Reporters to Drop Critical News Stories
“Every time I would talk to him from time to time, and every time it was the same thing. It was like this, he had this ability to make you believe That what you were doing was not the right story, and that this was the way to do it.”
Nick Bilton Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 39:06 We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
Apr 7, 2025 positive
Opinion
O'Brien: Steve Irwin is my role model over Steve Jobs
“Steve, I think is like, and it's so funny, you know, people say Steve on a podcast, and the tech, it's like Steve Jobs. It's like, for me, it's like Steve Irwin.”
Will O'Brien Apr 7, 2025 ▶ 58:34 7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier
Apr 17, 2025
Assertion Supported
Senra: Jobs did Isaacson biography so kids would know him
“So there is a devastating line in Steve Jobs' biography by Walter Isaacson, because Walter was collaborating with him as Steve was dying. And he told Walter one of the reasons he wanted to do this biography is because he wanted his kid, he sacrificed so much o…”
David Senra Apr 17, 2025 ▶ 6:19 Anti-Business Billionaires: Lessons from Steve Jobs, James Dyson, and Yvon Chouinard
Feb 16, 2026 negative
Opinion
Galloway says tech executives wrongly idolized Steve Jobs's asshole behavior as genius
“I was raised in a generation in San Francisco where Steve Jobs is our mentor and there was this terrible gestalt that infected a bunch of young tech executives, including myself, that if you were talented and nice, you were talented. If you were talented and a…”
Scott Galloway Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 44:13 Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks
Feb 18, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Puri: Tech founders like Jobs and Zuckerberg keep their kids off screens
“Steve Jobs, you know, he'll invent the iPad and the iPhone, but at home his kids don't use it. Zuckerberg, his kids aren't on social media. It's like, do as they do, not as they say that you should do, right?”
Shaan Puri Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 51:56 Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
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