Steve Jobs

“That's how most founders delegate. And that does not make people feel good, and it certainly doesn't scale. A subtle difference, but really important, is to say, hey, you're really smart. That's why I hired you. You go off. Here are the things to think about. …”

“The other thing that I'm starting to see happen across a lot of different companies, and even Hackerank has incorporated this, is the business acumen the level of business acumen that you have as a developer. Usually it is, it's always developers or builders. …”

“Oh, I think actually you would fund him, because Steve Jobs would make you fund him.”

“I don't think we'd fund a Steve Jobs at YC. Well, that's not good. Yeah. And the reason is, especially when Steve Jobs was starting off, he was an asshole.”

“Real Steve Jobs released a shitty MVP that was revolutionary, but still fairly shitty, and every year iterated it. Until you have the thing in your pocket right now, which is pretty damn good. Real Steve Jobs iterates and talks to customers. Fake Steve Jobs ju…”

“However, the modern smartphone is just so far away from that idea. It's making us more addicted. It's making us sad. It's making us watch garbage content on TikTok.”

“Steve Jobs put our icon on a slide on one of his pitch decks.”

“Polaroid used to be an R&D powerhouse, had like, 1500 research scientists on staff. Steve Jobs, like, loved that company, admired them so much. When Edwin Land was fired, he called it the dumbest thing he'd ever heard. Yeah. And like, they never invented anoth…”