Steve Jobs "60 Minutes" Interview

[Maverick74]

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Great interview.

 

[JamesL]

I saw that last night. The part that really piqued my interest was the use of the iPad with Autistic children. If you have such a child, even moderately autistic, you know how important this is or can be.

 

[GTS]

He sounded like a real ass, not just a "tough" manager but a real lousy human being:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-20124391/steve-jobs-revelations-from-a-tech-giant/?pageNum=3

Isaacson: Jobs became wildly rich. Makes about a hundred people millionaires when Apple goes public. One of the things he does, though, that, you know, still caused a little ill will. There were old friends who used to be with him in the garage, his parents' garage, and they were working at Apple. But they hadn't quite gotten to the level of chief engineer. So they got no stock options. Wozniak, being incredibly generous is giving away his stock options, trying to make everybody a millionaire. And Steve Jobs is like very strict on who can get the stock options.

One of the people who didn't get them was Daniel Kottke, who had been with Jobs at Reed College, and India, and in the garage where Apple was founded.

Isaacson: And at one point, tries to go to Steve and just starts crying. But Steve can be very cold about these things. Finally, one of the engineers at Apple said, you know, "We have to take care of your buddy Daniel. I'll give him some stock, if you match it or whatever." And Jobs says, "Yeah, I'll match it. I'll give zero, you give zero."

What a massive tool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kottke

Daniel Kottke (born April 4, 1954) is a U.S. computer engineer and one of the earliest employees of Apple Inc. His official employee number was 12

How could employee number 12 at Apple not have gotten stock options?

Apparently he thought he could treat the cancer like he treated everyone else (tell it what to do) .... too bad, so sad.

Also:

Just before Apple went public, his longtime girlfriend became pregnant, producing a daughter, Lisa. Jobs who had himself been born out of wedlock and abandoned, denied paternity and refused to pay support until the courts intervened.

 

[advanceAlgo]

R.I.P Steve..
RIP

 

[GordonTheGekko]

Thanks for posting

 

[Rodney King]

Quote from GTS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kottke
How could employee number 12 at Apple not have gotten stock options?

Was he promised stock options when hired? What was his contribution, if any, to the success of AAPL?

 

[Samsara]

Wow, that was really interesting. Thanks for that.

 

[GTS]

Quote from Rodney King:

Was he promised stock options when hired? What was his contribution, if any, to the success of AAPL?

Since he was hired before there were stock options (or even a company called Apple) I guess the answer is no. Basic decency says you take care of people who stuck with you in the beginning when there was nothing. Not to mention that Jobs was supposedly his "friend":

His contribution to the personal computer revolution is undisputed as the engineer who assembled and tested the first Apple I computer with fellow computer designer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Steve Jobs's garage in 1976. Prior to the formation of Apple, Kottke was close friends with Jobs, whom he met at Reed College. The two men traveled to India backpacking around in search of spiritual enlightenment.

 

[Ripley]

Quote from GTS:

Since he was hired before there were stock options (or even a company called Apple) I guess the answer is no. Basic decency says you take care of people who stuck with you in the beginning when there was nothing. Not to mention that Jobs was supposedly his "friend":

You don't give stock options to your "friends" just because they hang around with you. You give stock options to who you think makes the required contributions to make things happen.

Steve Jobs was right, as well as brave. It takes courage to stand up against the entitlement gang.

 

[Random.Capital]

Quote from GTS:

Basic decency says you take care of people who stuck with you in the beginning when there was nothing.

Basic decency also says you shouldn't jump to malicious conclusions before hearing both sides of the story.

And yet here you are...