How VCs and non-geek CEOs ruin the fun?
Remember "Pepsi to Apple" -- famous book by John Scully, about how from almost becoming CEO of pepsi, he got invited by Steve Jobs to head marketing at Apple; how he took control, and along with board threw out the real apple -- Steve :). There is even a movie on this. And from a fortune 500 giant --- Apple almost died.
He made the most idiotic mistakes of all time by making Apple Newton - a PDA which never completed/took off. It had hard-writing recognition instead of some touchscreen :)).
Similar, story about Phil Greenspun ArsDigita
A good cartoon strip on VCs:The VC
And Eric's nice article on Make more mistakes
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Here's two links about Steve Jobs from HBTI_Alumni -
Steve Jobs Resume : http://homepage.mac.com/steve/Resume.html
steve Jobs on wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
By the way.. do you know about wikipedia - it's a public encyclopedia where you can also contribute - I looked on it for 'War of 1812' and 'Star Spangled Banner'.
I din't knew that MSDN has a columns section where you can find articles from Eric Sink and others... Cool.
An interesting speech that Steve Job made last week at Stanford - 'Stay hungry, stay foolish'
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/grad-061505.html
Here's the complete story in his own words -
http://applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/steve_jobs_standford_commencement_address/
Notice the first story - he drops out of Reed college, check out its location in his resume link posted above...
A very detailed essay by Paul Graham
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