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07 Nov 11
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Says Palo Alto venture capitalist Jean-Louis Gasse, a former Apple executive who once worked with Jobs: "Democracies don't make great products. You need a competent tyrant."
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08 Oct 11
planetthoughtfulArticle that mentions that Steve Jobs attempted to treat his pancreatic cancer with diet.
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Yet to the horror of the tiny circle of intimates in whom he'd confided, Jobs was considering not having the surgery at all. A Buddhist and vegetarian, the Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) CEO was skeptical of mainstream medicine. Jobs decided to employ alternative methods to treat his pancreatic cancer, hoping to avoid the operation through a special diet - a course of action that hasn't been disclosed until now.
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He was, of course, the charismatic boy wonder who at age 21 had co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in his parents' garage back in 1976. He was worth $200 million by 25, made the cover of Time magazine at 26, and was thrown out of the company at age 30, in 1985.
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$1,000 invested in Apple shares on the day Jobs took over is worth about $36,000 today.
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Pixar, where he served simultaneously as CEO
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Jobs is notoriously secretive and controlling when it comes to his relationship with the press
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"The degree to which people in Silicon Valley are afraid of Jobs is unbelievable. He made people feel terrible; he made people cry. But he was almost always right, and even when he was wrong, it was so creative it was still amazing."
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"Democracies don't make great products. You need a competent tyrant."
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Jobs himself judges the world in binary terms. Products, in his view, are "insanely great" or "shit."
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One is facing death from cancer or "cured." Subordinates are geniuses or "bozos," indispensable or no longer relevant.
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in the 26 years that Fortune has been ranking America's Most Admired Companies, never has the corporation at the head of the list so closely resembled a one-man show.
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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster opined that if Jobs were forced out as a result of the backdating scandal, Apple's shares would drop 20% overnight. At the company's current market cap, that would make him Apple's $22 billion man. "Steve Jobs running the company from jail would be better for the stock price than Steve Jobs not being CEO,"
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06 Mar 11
activeneuronJobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options, or even pancreatic cancer. The same traits that make him a great CEO drive him to put his company, and his investors, at risk.
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06 May 09
Hutch CarpenterAnd no CEO is more personally identified with - and controlling of - the day-to-day affairs of his business. Even now, Jobs views himself less as a mogul than as an artist, Apple's creator-in-chief. He has listed himself as "co-inventor" on 103 separate Apple patents, everything from the user interface for the iPod to the support system for the glass staircase used in Apple's dazzling retail stores.
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26 Jul 08
Scott BeamerInteresting Bio on Steve Jobs
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04 Apr 08
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responsible for everything from the creation of the iPod to the selection of the chef in the company cafeteria
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He made people feel terrible; he made people cry. But he was almost always right, and even when he was wrong, it was so creative it was still amazing.
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Democracies don't make great products. You need a competent tyrant."
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05 Mar 08
William WallaceJobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options, or even pancreatic cancer. The same traits that make him a great CEO drive him to put his company, and his investors, at risk.
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