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Founders: #204 Steve Jobs (Inside Steve's Brain)

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What I learned from reading Inside Steve's Brian by Leander Kahney. ---- Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. Use it to supplement the decisions you make in your work. Get access to Founders Notes here. ---- 1. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don't take the time to do that.2. He remade Apple in his own image. Apple is Steve Jobs with ten thousand lives.3. I'm looking for a fixer-upper with a solid foundation. Am willing to tear down walls, build bridges, and light fires. I have great experience, lots of energy, a bit of that 'vision thing' and I'm not afraid to start from the beginning.4. Good storytelling lasts for decades. I don't think you'll be able to boot up any computer today in 20 years. But Snow White has sold 28 million copies, and it's a 60-year-old production.5. Jobs has said the starting point is the user experience.6. In everything I've done it really pays to go after the best people in the world. 7. My dream is that every person in the world will have their own Apple computer. To do that,

[00:00:00] It's hard to believe that one man revolutionized computers in the 1970s with the Apple II and the 1980s with the Mac, animated movies in the 1990s with Pixar, and digital music in the 2000s with iPod and iTunes. Inside Steve's brain cuts through the cult of personality that surrounds Jobs to unearth the secrets to his unbelievable results. It reveals the real Steve Jobs. Not his heart or his famous temper, but his mind. So what's really inside Steve's brain? According to Leander Caney, who has covered Jobs since the early 1990s, it's a fascinating bundle of contradictions. Jobs is…

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