Mixergy gets to know a lot about Steve Jobs from the founder of Smugmug

http://mixergy.com/smugmug-chris-macaskill-interview/

by akshat • 16 years ago

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akshat2• 16 years ago

This is simply amazing. Do give it a listen.

AndrewWarner3• 16 years ago

Check out the story of how Steve Jobs cried his way to a deal.

I should probably clip the Steve Jobs stories because Chris tells them so well.

akshat2• 16 years ago

One of your best interviews. Actually now that I have finished listening to the whole interview, the Steve Jobs part was only one of the highlights. The rest was amazing too.

tbrooks• 16 years ago

Hear, hear. The MightyWords story was awesome. Chris seems so relatable. I wish there was more videos of him speaking and telling stories.

Good job Andrew, this was an awesome interview.

dpritchett• 16 years ago

That bit about the difficulty of winning an argument with Steve was gold. To paraphrase: he's larger than life, he thinks faster than you, he has access to privileged information, and he's super charismatic. If you can get him to the point where he's reduced to insults then you've effectively won.

necrecious• 16 years ago

The story of getting Next ported to Intel, and it made the difference in Apple buying Next instead of BeOS, was great.

The behind the scene handling of Steve Jobs is classic "managing up."

rykov• 16 years ago

Andrew, it looks like the audio feed in iTunes is stuck. I've been itching to hear the latest episodes.

ryanhuff• 16 years ago

It has been completely borked in Google Listen. No Mixergy updates in 2 weeks now, which is unfortunate, as I often listen to podcasts while commuting. ITunes has been working for me though.

AndrewWarner3• 16 years ago

Sorry. We can't seem to get it back up, but we're working on it.

I hired a wp company to figure out what's going on and straighten it out.

If anyone has any insight: http://mixergy.com/contact

blasdel• 16 years ago

> I remember reading Robert Scoble talked about you, guys, like he invented it himself, like SmugMug was his baby.

Scoble does that shit with everything -- see how ridiculous he got with FriendFeed (and how much of an ass he made out of himself at Startup School)

wdewind• 16 years ago

Yea at first I thought friend feed was his company...

matrix• 16 years ago

Great interview, filled with interesting stories - well worth checking out just for the Steve Job stories.

PS: And thanks Andrew, for steering away from linkbait titles.

terpua• 16 years ago

If you are down and need inspiration now, listen to this.

Chris, if you are reading this, thanks for sharing. Amazing, amazing, amazing.

Andrew, the best so far.

thesethings• 16 years ago

Please everybody, listen the whole way through. The Steve stories are in the first have of the interview. And they're pretty juicy (maybe just because we've never heard them before, unlike lots of other Steve legend?).

You may be tempted to stop the interview after that. But Chris is an amazing and admirable entrepreneur AND person. He shares some really moving stuff about his background that makes all of the Steve stuff fall away.

brandnewlow• 16 years ago

Andrew, get your site a favicon!

AndrewWarner3• 16 years ago

Thanks, but I think I have one.

siculars• 16 years ago

Now this is what a real interview should be like. I really need to tip my hat to Andrew for probing with some uncomfortable questions and applaud Chris for answering them. Usually you just hear someone speak about what they do; It is not often you get to hear someone speak about who they are and how they got to be that way.

Mixergy gets to know a lot about Steve Jobs from the founder of Smugmug

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