178 Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2021-05-03
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“So they start realizing, "Hey, we- not only we have to make better products, we have to make-- we have to redesign…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: product.
Focus
“And this is g- I'm gonna tie this together with a lesson I learned from David Ogilvy about a lot of people…”
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People
“Um, he gets into fights with other people, including the guy that hired him, or not hired him, kept him, um, Rubinstein…”
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Persistence
“And it was, I think it was in Intel Tr-Trinity, the book I did a long, long time ago.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“Jobs explained that Apple couldn't be a profitable $12 billion company or a profitable $10 billion company, but it could be a…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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