Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk- the dark side
Are rich and successful people just like us, but just with more pressure and more spotlight? (every anecdote on wikipedia)
Steve Jobs fake last words- is the person who wrote these (and claimed it was by Steve Jobs) really a better person than Steve Jobs?
What Steve Jobs really thought about life.
“nterviewer's question: "If this was going to be viewed forever by young high school kids and college kids — young entrepreneurs who want to go out and do something while they're still young. You know, the advantages of doing that. It opened up a whole new gate for other young entrepreneurs. What advice would you give them?" Transcript: ". . . The thing I would say is, when you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. But life, that's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. And the minute that you understand that you can poke life, and actually something will, you know, if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it. You can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just going to live in it, versus embrace it. Change it. Improve it. Make your mark upon it. I think that's very important. And however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better. Because it's kind of messed up in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."
What does “a better person “ even mean?
Ok, he treated her badly- maybe she wasn’t a very nice person.
Power- who has it, who gets to exercise it?
is there any such thing as the real…?
Bill- evil Microsoft genius or benevolent philantropist? ( and tax optimiser)
Elon Musk
“In person Elon is oddly charming and he’s genuinely funny. He also has personality quirks like telling the same stories and jokes over and over. The challenge is his personality and demeanor can turn on a dime going from excited to angry. Since it was hard to read what mood he might be in and what his reaction would be to any given thing, people quickly became afraid of being called into meetings or having to share negative news with him.
Everyone can be seen as both a hero or a villain, depending on who is telling what angle of the story. Elon doesn’t deserve to be venerated or vilified. He’s a complicated person with an unfathomable amount of financial and geopolitical power which is why humanity needs him to err on the side of goodness, rather than political divisiveness and pettiness.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that in all of this there is also a cautionary tale for anyone who succeeds at something — which is that the higher you climb, the smaller your world becomes. It’s a strange paradox but the richest and most powerful people are also some of the most isolated.”
https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/1684291048682684416?s=20
Steve Jobs
In the coming months, many employees developed a fear of encountering Jobs while riding in the elevator, "afraid that they might not have a job when the doors opened. The reality was that Jobs's summary executions were rare, but a handful of victims was enough to terrorize a whole company."[136]
“The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand,”
Steve Jobs was not the most considerate individual at Apple, and he had lots of ways to demonstrate that. One of the most obvious was his habit of parking in the handicapped spot of the parking lot - he seemed to think that the blue wheelchair symbol meant that the spot was reserved for the chairman.
Bill Gates
In the early 1980s, while business partner Paul Allen was undergoing treatments for cancer, Gates — according to Allen — conspired to reduce Allen's share in Microsoft by issuing himself stock options.[238][239][240] In his autobiography, Allen would later recall that Gates was "scheming to rip me off. It was mercenary opportunism plain and simple".[238] Gates says he remembers the episode differently.[239] Allen would also recall that Gates was prone to shouting episodes.[240]
Gates met regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program managers, and the managers described him as being verbally combative. He also berated them for perceived holes in their business strategies or proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk.[241][242] Gates saw competition in personal terms; when Borland's Turbo Pascal performed better than Microsoft's own tools, he yelled at programming director Greg Whitten "for half an hour" because, Gates believed, Borland's Philippe Kahn had surpassed Gates.[243] Gates interrupted presentations with such comments as "that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard"[244] and "why don't you just give up your options and join the Peace Corps?"[245] The target of his outburst would then have to defend the proposal in detail until Gates was fully convinced.[244] Not all harsh language was criticism; a manager recalled that "You're full of shit. That's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard" meant that Gates was amazed. "In the lore of Microsoft, if Bill says that to you, you're made".[246] When subordinates appeared to be procrastinating, he was known to remark sarcastically, "I'll do it over the weekend".[247][74][248] Gates has been accused of bullying Microsoft employees.[249]