Playboy Interviews Steve Jobs circa 1985

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This bazungu thought like several collective negroes 30 years later. And he wa Sonko 29
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Playboy: We were going to say guys like you and Steve Wozniak, working out of a garage only ten years ago. Just what is this revolution you two seem to have started?

Jobs

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Playboy: Most computers use key strokes to enter instructions, but Macintosh replaces many of them with something called a mouseJobs

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Playboythat the mouse is inefficientJobs:

[RV Pundit]

interesting

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Playboy: A lot of guys in their 40s are going to be real pleased with you.

JobsAnyway, one of our biggest challenges, and the one I think John Sculley and I should be judged on in five to ten years, is making Apple an incredibly great ten- or 20-billion-dollar company. Will it still have the spirit it does today?

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Playboy:

JobsPlayboy: Then why were you?

Jobs: The main thing is very simply that the technology we developed is superior. It could not be this good if we became compatible with IBMIBM would fold its umbrella on the companies making compatible computers and absolutely crush them.
Second and more important, we did not go IBM-compatible because of the product vision that drives this company. We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference in the world. .

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Playboy: For instance?

Jobs: [Grins] Normal stuff. Like making a huge flag with a giant one of these on it. [gives the finger] The idea was that we would unfurl it in the middle of a school graduation. Then there was the time Wozniak made something that looked and sounded like a bomb and took it to the school cafeteria. We also went into the blue-box business together.

PlayboyJobs: Mm-hm.

Playboy: Did you get into trouble for any of those things?

Jobs: Well, I was thrown out of school a few times.

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Playboy: Like computers, the automobile industry was an American industry that we almost lost to the Japanese.

Jobs:

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PlayboyJobs
Playboy: And you think computers will help in that process.

Jobs.

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Playboy: Where do you see computers and software going in the near future?

Jobs: Thus far,

Playboy: For example?

Jobs

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PlayboyJobs: And when I was 24, my net worth was more than $10,000,000; when I was 25, it was more than $100,000,000.

Playboydifference between having $1,000,000 and having several hundred million?

Jobs: Visibility. The number of people who have a net worth of more than $1,000,000 in this country is in the tens of thousands. The number of people who have a net worth of more than $10,000,000 gets down to thousands. And the number who have a net worth of more than $100,000,000 gets down to a few hundred.

Playboy: What does the money actually mean to you?

Jobs: large responsibility

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Playboy: With your wealth and past accomplishments, you have the ability to pursue dreams as few others do. Does that freedom frighten you?

Jobs: The minute you have the means to take responsibility for your own dreams and can be held accountable for whether they come true or not, life is a lot tougherresponsibility in that.

[RV Pundit]

That guy was truly a genius. I am split btw him and Billy Gates. I think Bill Gates ought to have long won a nobel and is possibly the greatest man alive.

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That guy was truly a genius. I am split btw him and Billy Gates. I think Bill Gates ought to have long won a nobel and is possibly the greatest man alive.

Yessir, he was a manager and visionary rolled into one,and he damn well excelled in both. I read the article and wondered whether Tim Cook will ever come close to that

[Nefertiti]

That guy was truly a genius. I am split btw him and Billy Gates. I think Bill Gates ought to have long won a nobel and is possibly the greatest man alive.

Yessir, he was a manager and visionary rolled into one,and he damn well excelled in both. I read the article and wondered whether Tim Cook will ever come close to that

Tim Cook, to quote Jobs, "is a logistics wizard" responsible for the value chain - US to China to markets - that created huge margins. Jobs said Cook and Design VP Jony Ives were the biggest Apple stars. You need Cook+Jony to run the tight ship. With time Apple will lose the edge. See already they are losing consumer electronics leadership to likes of Amazon kindle & echo speakers.

Microsoft is lucky Gates is still around. Otherwise cloud business has been taken over by Amazon too Gates of course stepped down as CEO at 45 but continues to to call the shots as technical advisor.

Jobs & Gates both started business at 20... CEO as first job. I think Jobs was more multi-talented - with crazier ideas - and starting animation/film companies one that he sold off to Disney for billions.

To me the greatest mind of today is Elon Musk. Dude has sweeping vision and energy. Ford, GM, etc are losing out to Tesla... despite billions of capital & experience - with Tesla gigafactories popping up everywhere. Show me another company in cutthroat competitive industry like Auto with 1yr+ of advance orders with down payments Plus taking over the green energy sector. Even the Amazon dude is seeing dust fighting with Musk for space industry... where SpaceX suddenly has 60% of global market as 15yo company. Beating kina Boeing hands down.

[Nefertiti]

Jobs: Mm-hm.

 

This was one of funniest stories about Jobs & Woz... plus fake bombs of course. It was before large-scale terrorism so maybe it was funny. There were stories about Jobs being bipolar - delusional - denying paternity of his own kid for years. It took a court order for the billionaire to cough up school fees 

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To me the greatest mind of today is Elon Musk. Dude has sweeping vision and energy. Ford, GM, etc are losing out to Tesla... despite billions of capital & experience - with Tesla gigafactories popping up everywhere. Show me another company in cutthroat competitive industry like Auto with 1yr+ of advance orders with down payments Plus taking over the green energy sector. Even the Amazon dude is seeing dust fighting with Musk for space industry... where SpaceX suddenly has 60% of global market as 15yo company. Beating kina Boeing hands down.

[Nefertiti]

To me the greatest mind of today is Elon Musk. Dude has sweeping vision and energy. Ford, GM, etc are losing out to Tesla... despite billions of capital & experience - with Tesla gigafactories popping up everywhere. Show me another company in cutthroat competitive industry like Auto with 1yr+ of advance orders with down payments Plus taking over the green energy sector. Even the Amazon dude is seeing dust fighting with Musk for space industry... where SpaceX suddenly has 60% of global market as 15yo company. Beating kina Boeing hands down.

You're so wrong. Noone ever "created" any science or tech. Obviously auto started long before Tesla including EV. Well, even computers started long ago before Jobs & Gates with kina Alan Turing, GE dude Tom Edison, etc. Before that kina Faraday started electricity, including Musk's hero Nikola Tesla who singularly invented AC - alternating current elec - what transformed power distribution to light cities. Eons earlier we had likes of Newton who invented quantum theory of particles... noone owns anything wholly really. Like they say everyone is a genius in some unknown area... Biggest difference is marketing - entrepreneurship - ability to create hype & mobilize resources and fandom. Like Gates, Jobs and Musk.

EVs had died before Musk showed up. I read GM actually crashed the last of the "unprofitable" EVs into a yard somewhere. Same as rocket/space industry - NASA and airforce were mono-sourcing to ULA - Lockheed & Boeing sub - for super-expensive launches that even Russia could not hack. Before Elon showed up with SpaceX NASA moronically estimated that a Mars venture would cost US$200B Launching a satellite was actually US$200M - installing commercial satellites out there for telcos, etc - well, Musk has cut that down to US$60M That is real value if you ask me - and Airforce & NASA were too embarassed to continue mono-sourcing to ULA - and SpaceX promptly took over the big contracts.

Fossil fuels - gasoline - are the biggest cause of pollution and global warming. Meaning EVs & green energy. From US$150K for Model X to US$35K Model 3.

So Musk actually says: currently you need US$10B fare per head to go to Mars. He wants to slash that to US$200K per head - that's 50K times efficiency - and he's doing it with reusable rockets. Innovating at mind-boggling rate that noone can keep up. Tesla & SpaceX are top 5 most innovative companies globally if am right.

Availing super-tech solutions to the masses for cheap - that's something.

[Nefertiti]

This Steve Jobs mania is a challenge for me.  We are all celebrating not just his genius, but his relentless pursuit of perfection, his refusal to compromise, his unconventionality, his prickly personality, his unforgiving drive.  We all want to be more like him (including me).  The thing is, we would never hire him, and if we found him in our midst, we would get rid of him.

Look at the way we all conduct and review job interviews, the questions we ask reference checks, the annual performance review forms.  Teamwork, interpersonal skills, acceptance of the company mission statement, blah, blah: 

http://www.ellisdon.com/blogs/steve-jobs-mania-revisited/