Steve Jobs: The Beginning, 1955-1985 (Part 1 of 3)

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-beginning-19551985-10062011.html

by cshenoy • 15 years ago

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Hontano• 15 years ago

These are a very well written set of articles. Heartwarming.

At Apple, Jobs inspired without inspiring much love. “He’d stop by and say, ‘This is a pile of shit’ or ‘This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen,’” Andy Hertzfeld, who helped develop the Macintosh, told Moritz. “The scary thing was that he’d say it about the same thing.” The people at Apple had a name for that behavior, too: “the shithead-hero roller coaster.”

That phrase always makes me chuckle. Time to re-read a few folklore.org entries.

Single page links for the three parts:

Part 1: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-beginning-1...

Part 2: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-wilderness-...

Part 3: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-return-1997...

threepointone• 15 years ago

Thank you for the links.

dennisgorelik• 15 years ago

6. Since its IPO in 1980, Apple’s stock price has jumped from $22 to $378.25 a share.

The author forgot about two 2:1 splits.

It would be more correct to say that AAPL grew from $3.6 to $378.25 a share. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL

mynameishere• 15 years ago

The fruitarian diet, Jobs was convinced, purged his body of impurities and thus eliminated the need to bathe. Rather than fire him, Alcorn had Jobs come in after hours so the other employees didn’t have to deal with him.

That...must have been an awkward conversation.

marquis• 15 years ago

Reading this, makes his legacy make all the more sense, and one might imagine taking such massive chances and bets. Inspiring and sobering.

Steve Jobs: The Beginning, 1955-1985 (Part 1 of 3)

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