I thought I knew all the anecdotes about Steve Jobs back when he was the hottest rock star in the Valley. I was wrong. How did I miss this great scolding by former Intel chairman and CEO Andy Grove?
Some of us from Silicon Valley were invited to a dinner in Palo Alto. It was 1983. At one point during the meal, Steve stands up and yells: “Nobody over 30 can possibly understand what computing is all about.”
I pulled him aside, waved my finger, and lectured him, telling him, “You’re incredibly arrogant. You don’t know what you don’t know.” His response was, “Teach me. Tell me what I should know.”
Yes, a total twunt, but you have to admire how he turned it around, nonchalantly. Mr. Grove says that they later had lunch together, talking mostly about personal stuff. He thinks that he didn’t teach him a single thing. Instead time has, as he points out the irony of Steve’s words during that dinner:
He was wrong when he singled a generation out. How old was Steve when the iPod came out — 46?
Indeed. Read the rest of the anecdotes from the rest of the eight business stars talking about el Señor Esteban in [Fortune]
Bryan Lee
November 6, 2009 at 2:07 PM
WTFH is the point of this article?
Report PermalinkBatiu-Drami
November 6, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Jesus Diaz just has more of an Apple boner than the rest of Gizmodo staff, that’s all. He quite often runs stories that noone could possibly care about which are Apple related.
Report Permalinkjacob
November 6, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Yeah have to agree with Bryan Lee above, slow day is it Jesus?
Report PermalinkKhuntza
November 6, 2009 at 7:55 PM
I was gonna ask what Twunt was.. but I googled that shit..
n. Useful, satisfying yet inoffensive combination of two very rude words which can safely be spoken in primmest and properest company. Twat and Cunt.
“He’s a right twunt!”
So the point of the article is that although it has long been known that Apple users are a bunch of Twunts it is now confirmed that Steve Jobs is in fact the biggest..
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