Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs left strong impressions among the people he knew, and some of them have shared those impressions in the latest issue of Forbes.
Stories about meetings and encounters with Jobs are always intriguing due to the multi-faceted personality of the man.
This Friday marks the one-year anniversary of death of the Apple leader, prompting the magazine to publish some of the "untold" tales about Jobs as related by friends and colleagues.
Web browser guru and now venture capitalist Marc Andreessen related a story in which Jobs showed him a prototype of the first iPhone in 2006. After playing with the phone, Andreessen asked Jobs if he thought users might have a problem typing on the screen without a physical keyboard. With a piercing look, Jobs merely said: "They'll get used to it."
Jobs and NeXT software engineer Randy Adams both owned Porsches at a time that NeXT was looking for venture capital. One day, Jobs told Adams that they had to hide the Porsches. When Adams asked why, Jobs said that Ross Perot, who was thinking of investing in the company, was stopping by for visit. But Jobs didn't want Perot to think NeXT had a lot of money. Hiding the cars must have worked, according to Forbes, since Perot ... [Read more]
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