77 Steve Jobs (The NeXT Years) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-06-23
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“He had literally like the most successful product, one of the most successful products ever made in the Apple II, and one…”
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
“On a hot summer day during a s- hike in the San F- Stanford Hills with a fellow employee, uh, that took…”
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People
“Um, so he's saying, "Hey, I only hire self-motivated people.”
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Persistence
“So I think that the, the main takeaway for the book for me is like, okay, well, listen, y- you can make…”
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Capital
“Well over two hundred and fifty million dollars of capital and royalties disappeared in NeXT, without a penny of net profit to…”
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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