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Jony Ive recounts the time Steve Jobs called him vain
Jony recounts the time he asked Steve Jobs to be less harsh in his critique of a piece of work.
When Steve asked “why?”, Jony replied: “Well, because I care about the team.”
Steve then said, as Jony puts it, “this brutally, brilliantly, insightful thing”:
“No Jony, you’re just really vain. You just want people to like you. And I’m surprised at you because I thought you really held the work up as the most important—not how you believe you are perceived by other people.”
Jony reflects on the remark:
“I was terribly cross because I knew he was right.”
Video source: @VanityFair (2014)
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Jony Ive recounts the time Steve Jobs called him vain
Jony recounts the time he asked Steve Jobs to be less harsh in his critique of a piece of work.
When Steve asked “why?”, Jony replied: “Well, because I care about the team.”
Steve then said, as Jony puts it, “this brutally, brilliantly, insightful thing”:
“No Jony, you’re just really vain. You just want people to like you. And I’m surprised at you because I thought you really held the work up as the most important—not how you believe you are perceived by other people.”
Jony reflects on the remark:
“I was terribly cross because I knew he was right.”
Video source: @VanityFair (2014)
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RT @foundertribune: "The Steve Jobs Roller Coaster" by @edcatmull https://t.co/arhd3I7sFW
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RT @foundertribune: "The Steve Jobs Roller Coaster" by @edcatmull https://t.co/arhd3I7sFW
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Ed Catmull on the sale of Pixar to Steve Jobs:
"The CFO, in particular, underestimated Steve, assuming he was just another rich kid in over his head. This CFO told me that the way to establish his authority in the room was to arrive last... All that it ended up establishing, however, was that he’d never met anyone like Steve Jobs."
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Ed Catmull on the sale of Pixar to Steve Jobs:
"The CFO, in particular, underestimated Steve, assuming he was just another rich kid in over his head. This CFO told me that the way to establish his authority in the room was to arrive last... All that it ended up establishing, however, was that he’d never met anyone like Steve Jobs."
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Brian Armstrong's best advice for a pre-product/market fit startup
“If you’re pre-product/market fit, the best advice that I have from that period is: action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.”
He borrows this from Paul Graham who said: “Startups are like sharks. If they stop swimming they die.’”
“Even if you’re not sure what to do, just do anything. Because when you do it, it’ll produce some information—people liked it, they didn’t, etc.”
Brian shares that there were many times in the early days of Coinbase when he just shipped something rather than debate it endlessly:
“There were a couple of times where the minute I shipped it, I knew we built it wrong. But I now had an idea of what to do next. And I only would’ve had that idea by actually going through the exercise of building it.”
He concludes:
“My other favorite analogy for this is that it’s like you’re at the base of a mountain that’s shrouded in fog. You’re looking up at the mountain and trying to figure out how to get up there, but you can only see three or four steps ahead because the fog is so thick. So you have to just take steps into the unknown. And when you take three steps, another three steps will be revealed ahead of you. And sometimes you’ll end up on some local maxima and have to retrace your steps… But most people in life don’t take the steps into the unknown because it’s scary.”
Video source: @lexfridman (2022)
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Brian Armstrong's best advice for a pre-product/market fit startup
“If you’re pre-product/market fit, the best advice that I have from that period is: action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.”
He borrows this from Paul Graham who said: “Startups are like sharks. If they stop swimming they die.’”
“Even if you’re not sure what to do, just do anything. Because when you do it, it’ll produce some information—people liked it, they didn’t, etc.”
Brian shares that there were many times in the early days of Coinbase when he just shipped something rather than debate it endlessly:
“There were a couple of times where the minute I shipped it, I knew we built it wrong. But I now had an idea of what to do next. And I only would’ve had that idea by actually going through the exercise of building it.”
He concludes:
“My other favorite analogy for this is that it’s like you’re at the base of a mountain that’s shrouded in fog. You’re looking up at the mountain and trying to figure out how to get up there, but you can only see three or four steps ahead because the fog is so thick. So you have to just take steps into the unknown. And when you take three steps, another three steps will be revealed ahead of you. And sometimes you’ll end up on some local maxima and have to retrace your steps… But most people in life don’t take the steps into the unknown because it’s scary.”
Video source: @lexfridman (2022)
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