Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire
by Austin_Conlon on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:56AM
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Grew Pixar too. Here’s how Alan Kay put it:
> I was contacted by the people who became Pixar–I knew them well, and they wanted to get out of Lucasfilm. They called me up and asked me for advice, and so I said, I can talk to Steve. I explained very carefully to him who these people were, and you shouldn’t fuck around with them, like he did with his normal employees. He did a good job with them. [Pixar] was the most honest billion he ever made, because he put a lot of his own personal money into nurturing those guys. They got fabulous. That was Steve’s best hour.
Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire
by kortilla on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:17AM
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> This is the forum for a VC firm.
It may be, but that’s not who posts on it and determines the content.
Re:Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire
by austhrow743 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:59AM
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Right you are that the VC firm doesn't. People who have, out of all possible internet feeds with comment sections they could have discovered and then stuck with, discovered and then stuck with the forum of a VC firm do.
Steve Jobs made a shitload of money growing a tech company. The broad overview of his career involving him being there when it went from nothing to something, leaving, succeeding while it floundered, then returning to have it then also succeed; gives him more credibility for having caused that success than many other potential role models have.