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The CIA provided crucial funding that helped keep NeXT, the computer company founded by Steve Jobs, financially stable during the 1980s.
Jony Ive shares his belief that customers can sense care taken with a product, referencing Steve Jobs' insistence on beauty even in the hidden internals of the Macintosh.
Tony Fadell discusses Steve Jobs' approach to opinion-based decisions in building revolutionary products like the iPod and iPhone, emphasizing the importance of articulating and owning those decisions without data.
Derek Sivers recounts his 2003 experience meeting Steve Jobs to get CD Baby's catalog onto iTunes, leading to a dismissive mention by Jobs in a 2010 keynote.
Jony Ive recounts Steve Jobs' product philosophy that prioritized making great products over making money, which saved Apple from bankruptcy in 1998.
Marc Andreessen shares his perspective on Steve Jobs' management style, highlighting his intolerance for anything less than first-class work and how Jobs' failures at NeXT and Pixar shaped him into a great CEO before returning to Apple.
The article debunks Steve Jobs' claim that the Apple II's switching power supply was revolutionary, tracing the real innovation to transistor advances in the late 1960s and 1970s.
A review of the book 'Steve Jobs in Exile' that provides new details and context about Steve Jobs' years at NeXT and his eventual return to Apple.
Peter Thiel argues that Steve Jobs deserves more credit and emphasizes the importance of founder-led companies for innovation.
Paul Graham shares an insight about successful startups: each founder should be king of their own domain, using Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as an example where Woz controlled the product and Jobs handled the business.
The article recounts the divergent paths of Apple co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs after the success of the Apple II in 1980, highlighting Wozniak's retreat from the company and Jobs' ambitious but flawed attempt to create the Apple III.
Larry Ellison shares anecdotes about Steve Jobs' obsession with perfection, citing his refusal to settle on Toy Story until it was perfect, and describes what made him great.
An interview with author Geoffrey Cain about his book 'Steve Jobs in Exile,' which examines Jobs' overlooked years at NeXT Computer (1985-1997) and how that period shaped Apple's later success.
In 1998 Tim Cook left a secure Compaq role for a $500k signing bonus and $400k salary at then-struggling Apple after a single call from Steve Jobs.