The ideal name for a movie about Steve Wozniak, given how often he's misrepresented in the whole Jobs/Apple story: Woz/Not Woz .
W = NW
Would be funnier if his name had been Steve Pozniak, but I still give it points for geek cred.
Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
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#142"Woz" movie. It would love to see the story centered around Steve Wozniak. Inspiration for everybody who wants to build something from scratch before business kicks in.
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#143Sidenote: You can tell Woz is an amazing genuinely good person with no hint of pretension or self importance. A lot can be discerned about famous personalities by who they choose to follow. For example, you can tell whether the person has little utility for social networks but maybe started out following a scattering of experts relevant to their interests. Usually though, the personality is using their handful of fol…
Lord Vishnu ?
Turns out there are like... 5 Lord Vishnus on Google Plus.
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#144> Woz: And when Jobs (in the movie, but really a board does this) denied stock to the early garage team (some not even shown) I'm surprised that they chose not to show me giving about $10M of my own stock to them because it was the right thing. And $10M was a lot in that time. I have to say: That speaks volumes. And Woz, if you ever happen to read this: It's still a pile of dough in the year 2014.
Woz wrote that it was the board's decision and not Job's. But if you take a depiction of Jobs , Zuckerberg and Gates who are the most prominent examples of tech entrepreneurship, you get back-stabbing friends, socially unacceptable behaviors,a huge ego, etc. Given the fact that most of the times we get the sugar version of the story via Hollywood or books... I wonder if you have to be like that in order to get so hig…
> Given the fact that most of the times we get the sugar version of the story via Hollywood or books...
Do we? I'd expect to get the version of the story that sells, which is likely to have added drama.
Might it be that Jobs, Zuckerberg and Gates are more prominent than Page and Brin, precisely because of all the stuff we criticise them for?
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#145I can't seem to be able to get a direct link to Woz's post so I can forward it around, am I missing something or is Google+ even more braindead than I thought?
I'm in the same boat. Personally I suspect the later rather than the former.
Permalinks to comments are not a thing yet on G+.
Which is why the OP took a screenshot of it: https://plus.google.com/+CarmsPerez/posts/cDK6ZNpZ6YH (this was the original link; the mods decided this was too convenient).
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always wondered more about Woz than Jobs! We get plenty of shrewd businessmen; they aren't a dime-a-dozen, but they aren't an enigma either. Kind of an understood phenomenon. People like Woz (at least based on the myriad recountings; I have not met the man) seem to actually be rare. I wonder if there was an interesting aspect to his youth, or what. Maybe the same way that you can have a psychopath, you can have…
He wrote a book called iWoz. It's definitely worth a read if you're interested in him. He was obsessed with building his own computer from a young age.
I read that book and while I can recommend it, I felt Woz didn't dwell particularly long on any single aspect - it was just a nice long polished story, like something he had told many times before but this time collected into a book. I don't think I was looking for secrets or drama, but the man has done some amazing things and he puts so little emphasis on them in the book. Does a Wozniak biography exist that is not an auto-biography?
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always wondered more about Woz than Jobs! We get plenty of shrewd businessmen; they aren't a dime-a-dozen, but they aren't an enigma either. Kind of an understood phenomenon. People like Woz (at least based on the myriad recountings; I have not met the man) seem to actually be rare. I wonder if there was an interesting aspect to his youth, or what. Maybe the same way that you can have a psychopath, you can have…
Jobs was more than a "shrewd businessman". Building Pixar over 10 years into one of the top movie studios was not some "shrewd" business decision. Ditto for NeXT, the early Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad.. It's more accurate to say he was a visionary who took a long term view. It's only in retrospect that we have the luxury of looking on his track record as smart from a business standpoint. Woz even criticizes t…
Shame he didn't learn empathy from Woz - arguably the greatest flaw in his character and possibly the biggest need he had as a human being.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
$28,409,090.91 corrected for inflation.
Given the uncertainties and rounding involved, it makes (a lot) more sense to say $30M
No, it doesn't. What would make more sense is showing the calculation. Also it's nitpicky.
If you wanted to use significant figures, it would make more sense to say $28 million or $28.4 million. Going to one significant figure is overkill. Whether you trust the CPI or not, those that made it chose more than one digit for it. Also I feel it's just a coincidence that Woz chose a round 10. I think he chose to make it a round million, but it could easily have been 5 million or 15 million or even something that isn't a multiple of 5 million instead of 10 million, were the circumstances different.
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#150A movie is fictionalized version of real events! News at 11!