Steve Jobs
8 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2016 by Ben Williamson · said 241 times in 147 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nathan Latka (49), Mohit Aran (6), Amit Bendov (6), Subbu Rama (5), Nicolas Vandenberghe (5), Howard Marks (5), Trisha Roy (4), Rebecca Shostak (4)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Genius Affiliate Strategy Helps Bootstrapper Hit $27,000,000 Revenue
- 39 Year Old Public SaaS CEO Doubles Revenue to $400m Over the Last 24 Months - His Genius M&A Playbook
- $6m ARR CEO Shares When to Hire First AE, CSM, and VP
- 27 year old Founder exited for $169m at $50m ARR. How much cash did he take home at exit?
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- HR Tech Exec Invested $200k into his own HR SaaS, Raising $200k on $3m Valuation Now
- Pivot City! How we pivoted 6 times on our way to $20m in revenue
- Paragon Grew from $1m to $3m ARR Last 12 Months to Help you Connect To your customers apps faster
- Trucker Sells his Company for $300k cash, Launches $1m ARR SaaS
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 34 mentions in 22 episodes 2 per episode
- $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
- $25m Gong Acquisition? New Founder Hits $2m Run Rate in 5 Months
- How Clickup Bootstrapped to $25m, Then Decided to Go All In and Raise $530m to Take on Giants
- Rockstar Guitarist Launches SaaS, Breaks $3.6m in revenue, $30m valuation
- First B2B SaaS for VR Headsets Breaks 1.5m Downloads, $1m in ARR, $33m Round Closed
- From $5k to $24k in 12 Months, KFactory is Digitizing Factories for 12 Customers
- Look Back: Is Gong looking to IPO?
- Fastest Growing Ever? How He Went From $0 to $1.2m in 4 Weeks
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 23 mentions in 16 episodes 1 per episode
- Bootstrapper Hits $88k MRR In Under 12 Months, Mortgages House Twice
- Course Creation Tool Doubles in 6 months to $7m ARR
- Will Gong Break $10b Valuation by October?
- 13 Year Old Building Indie Builder Community, First $8 in Revenue!
- Billionaire Co-Founder of Square Joins Latka
- Clickup Breaks $85m ARR, "On Track for $200m in 2022" says CEO Zeb Evans
- Recruiter.com $20m ARR at $40m Market Cap: Most Under-Priced Public SaaS Ever?
- SalesChoice Bootstrapped to $1m in ARR on Salesforce, Now Raising $2-3m
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 12 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months
- WriterAccess Makes $9m This Year, Pays Freelancers $6.4m Helping 5,000 Brands With Content
- Gong.io Adds $1.5B To Valuation, 1500 Customers, $45m+ in Revenue for Revenue Intelligence Sales Tool
- Can Consumer App For Authenticated Videos Tied to Location Work in 2020?
- Trustisto Hits $60k Revenue Helping Ecommerce Brands Increase Cart Conversion Rate
- ClearView Is HootSuite for Lawyers, Hits $2.3m Revenue, Would Look at Exiting for $6m
- 1667 Top Tech Journalist Predicts We'll All Be Unemployed, Blockchain Takeover, Less Taxes!
- 1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 14 mentions in 13 episodes 1 per episode
- 1408 Quickly Launch Video Creatives With Automatic Tool Lumen5, $100k in MRR
- 1601 If All Content Becomes 3d With AR, VR, This CEO Will Be At The Center Of It
- 1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps
- 1532 His Hardware + Software Will Reduce Grain Spoilage by 30-50%
- 1513 KeeperSecurity is Profitable, Churning 8-10% of Revenue Annually
- 1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise
- 1444 Retarget Based Off Who Called Your Company, $1.5m in ARR, 45 Customers
- 1436 How He Used Partnerships To Grow 10x YoY to $6m in ARR
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 50 mentions in 29 episodes 2 per episode
- 1081 With $2m in ARR and $16m Valuation for 7+ Years, Do You Feel Stuck?
- 1107 Activision Blizzard CEO: ICO's are Just Like Selling Digital Swords in Mortal Combat!
- 1148 We've passed $10m in ARR helping companies make sure their analytics are working
- 1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m
- 1052 You're doing $9m in ARR, why write a book decoding creativity?
- 940 5000 Enterprises Pay Him $100m+ in ARR To Battle CyberSecurity Threats
- 929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service
- 1253 GetAccept Breaks 4000 Customers, Grew ARR 3x to $1.7m in ARR Last 12 Months
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 31 mentions in 22 episodes 1 per episode
- 840: Ad Tech: $400m from Apple? Deal! FlashTalking Doing 15-40b Impressions/month
- 776: TextingBase Shares Margins, Cap Table, Valuation, More
- EP 609: Pagecloud Raises $8.5M Helping 8500 SMB's Drag and Drop Websites Together with CEO Craig Fitzpatrick
- 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
- 688: W/ 4 Kids, He Quit Job to Launch Leather Briefcase Company Breton with CEO Joseph May
- EP 593: XOR Data Announcing $2m Funding Round Live, Invested $800k Before Any Revenue with CEO Mike Cook
- 884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story
- 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 65 mentions in 28 episodes 2 per episode
- How YoShirt App Went from $0-$1m Fast with Ben Williamson of YoShirt Episode 23
- EP 331: Trump Suicide Predicted By Best-Seller Ryan Holliday, Sites Ego
- Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199
- Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama
- EP 475: VayStays Helps 150,000+ Quickly Plan Vacations, $5M In TTM Transaction Volume with CEO Chris Brusznicki
- How to Sell $300k Of Your Physical Product with Trisha Roy from Barn and Willow
- This App is Redefining On Demand Apparel Commerce with 3m Downlaods and $3m+ In Sales, EP 273: Ben Williamson
- EP 482: Snip.ly $50k MRR, 1000 Customers For Lead Gen on Social Media Sharing with CEO Michael Cheng
- 20 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
Everything said about Steve Jobs, oldest first
Mar 1, 2016
Jun 20, 2016 negative
Holiday: Steve Jobs deserved to be fired from Apple in 1985
“So you look at someone like Steve Jobs, like, look, he was fired by Apple, and he deserved to be fired. He was horrible. If you were John Scully. You would have fired Steve Jobs. Because he wasn't delivering on sales, and he was unmanageable, and he was destro…”
Jul 10, 2018
Frankel turned down Steve Jobs's Pixar job offer over limited scope
“Well, I was under contract at Warner Brothers at the time, and I said, I can't have this conversation with you, or if they found out, they could let me go, and I'd be out of a job, but it was actually going to work at Pixar, and at Warner Brothers, I had 7000 …”
Jul 10, 2018 negative
Jul 10, 2018 neutral
Aug 5, 2018
May 4, 2022 positive
Jan 7, 2025 positive
Yampolskiy: SecurityScorecard Uses Former Jobs Coach to Screen VP Hires
“We actually have a psychologist who interviews, he used to be a coach to Steve Jobs, actually, and Larry Ellison, but he interviews every VP higher and above, and I get a forty-page report on what is a person like, not like, culture, curiosity”