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I was obsessed with early Apple in the late 90’s and emailed Woz one night on a whim. He wrote me back a few hours later. Such a wonderful guy.
I hope this is nothing serious.
Ha! I used to email Woz and Jobs all the time as a kid. They'd both respond! It was wild!
Woz is a truly nice guy. I wish him all the best.
Omg what did they say?
I lost the email but I emailed Jobs back when he killed all the Mac clones and he wrote me a great personal email back with his reasons. Might have been a jerk to a lot of people but he had some good qualities
I mean, making a company worth billions pretty much guarantees you have to step on a lot of people on your way up and do some shady shit.
Some of the whacky meeting stories involving him are way out there.
The stories we’re gonna hear about Taylor swift in a few decades are gonna be legendary.
“She once made me eat a live bat while we were getting set up for a show. Said she would personally ensure every one of my family members would be fired from their jobs if I didn’t. Halfway through, she stopped me and said ‘good job, you can stop now’ and took the now dead bat from me and then consumed it herself by unhinging her jaw and swallowing it whole.” - Taylor Swift backup dancer, 10 years from now probably
Please find it!
PR team
Jobs and even Tim Cook famously read and responded to emails. That's where we got the "you're holding it wrong" response from!
If you read Isaacson's biography of Jobs, both Steves got started in the fledgling industry by doing exactly that; sending letters and showing up at the offices of established people in the industry and just asking them for stuff. I think that's how Jobs got his first gig at Atari, if i remember correctly.
Very cool that both of them, who benefitted so much from reaching out personally, decided to pay it forward when they became titans themselves.
Jobs got an internship at HP by just looking up Bill Hewlett in the phone book, calling him up, and asking for some spare parts for a project he was working on.
Do you mind sharing what you emailed him about?
We both kept it short.
Just basic questions about what it was like to co-found Apple. How he felt about the current state of the company (Apple was on the brink of collapse) things like that. I had trouble finding his perspective in the many books I read on Apple so I asked him.
He responded with very loving answers and asked me a few questions about myself. He emailed again and what really stuck out was that he told me how proud he was of his own son who was just a little younger than me, I think he was graduating high school around that time. He also wished me success in life because I told him that I was close to graduating college.
He was just the kindest, sweetest, and most down-to-earth family man you could imagine.
Sometimes meeting your heroes is actually a blessing.
He very well might be but coming to that conclusion from a couple emails without ever meeting the guy is a bit much, especially when it could’ve been someone impersonating him
Nobody has first impressions? Apple doesn’t secure their email domain?
Apple in the 90s was an open and altruistic and innovative organization.
Not now.
They're still innovative (kinda) but have shitty pricing sadly.
They single handedly created the ARM notebooks market, and their iPhone chips are also the most powerful on the market
He's a great guy. Met him at a book signing for his book Woz and genuinely warm and funny. Hope it's nothing serious.