Steve Jobs

4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 16, 2020 by Ashmeet Sidana · said 53 times in 29 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Aug 16, 2020 negative
Insight
Sidana Rejects Steve Jobs' Claim That Customers Don't Know What They Want
“Steve Jobs often said that the customer does not know what he wants, he or she wants. I don't believe that. I believe that if you spend time with customers and you really understand and really listen to what they are saying, you can identify the problem and yo…”
Ashmeet Sidana Aug 16, 2020 ▶ 43:04 Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
Aug 16, 2020
Insight
Sidana: The Hardest Challenge for a Product Manager Is Deleting Features
“He understood that the hardest thing for a product manager to do is to delete features, not add features. It is easy to add features. The hard thing is to remove the features and solve only a very narrow problem.”
Ashmeet Sidana Aug 16, 2020 ▶ 39:30 Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
Oct 22, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Toshniwal: Steve Jobs emailed him directly to praise his early iOS app
“We worked on this app called Intro to Letters, A, B, C, D, one, two, three, four, simple app, app number 55, and we launch it. And you know, get this email. I love what you're doing. Let me know how I can help best steam as jobs at apple.com.”
Ashish Toshniwal Oct 22, 2025 ▶ 6:30 How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
Nov 18, 2025 positive
Opinion
Dash: Jyoti Bansal is the Steve Jobs of infrastructure software
“Probably in some ways almost like the Andy Bechtelschein or Steve Jobs equivalent in, like, infrastructure software and what he's done with three companies in the last decade.”
Somesh Dash Nov 18, 2025 ▶ 1:08:24 What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
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