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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!
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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.