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Re:Mourning Google by ksec on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:30PM (#39059171)
Most of the people who worked directly under Steve Jobs knows he is an Asshole. At the same time they all loves him.

You may want to watch [1] Steve Jobs Insult Response. And you can imagine most people are the guy asking that question.

[1] https://youtu.be/oeqPrUmVz-o?si=4fMzMqFS8lLbMZJr

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Re:Mourning Google by behnamoh on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:23PM (#39059825)
> You may want to watch [1] Steve Jobs Insult Response. And you can imagine most people are the guy asking that question.

Yes, but not every CEO is able to give the response he gave. At least, he tried to connect with the developers. When was the last time Google's CEO interacted with devs?

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Re:Mourning Google by fidotron on Friday January 19, 2024 @04:44PM (#39061622)
For those that haven't seen it the whole thing is worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ16_YxLbB8

This Q&A is the evidence for why I think many tech people underestimated him, and as you observe such unfiltered Q&As do not occur with other tech CEOs, though he was not CEO at the time. He's not 100% right about how things would go, but he was a lot more right than anyone else proved to be.

Some of his answers to the really tough questions are not stellar, but Apple was in a truly terrible state at the time, and there were not nice answers to give. The fact that he stood there ready to take the hits spoke volumes though.

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Re:Mourning Google by ksec on Friday January 19, 2024 @10:45PM (#39064460)
Exactly. Most people on HN dont commenting on Steve Jobs not only has never worked directly with or under him. They dont even bother to actually research into his real personality. Instead they rely on hearsay or very selective reporting or comments.

And if people hate him as an CEO so much, then no other CEO in tech history would get the pass mark.

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