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The one thing Steve Jobs did that turned around Apple

After a nasty battle with Apple shareholders, Steve Jobs, then the original founding CEO, was ousted. He went on to create NeXt computers (later acquired by Disney). In the meantime, Apple drifted as a company. It proliferated product lines. Lost focus. And the share price entered a death spiral phase. A few years later in…

“Beam me some money, Scotty!”
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“Beam me some money, Scotty!”

In a previous life, Elon Musk was one of the main creators of PayPal. He’s pretty open about how the initial idea didn’t actually catch on very well. When he was doing customer interviews, he’d get that glazed-over look. Yeah, that one. At the time, the team was approaching consumers. They were saying they aimed…

Why Entrepreneurs Rule

Why Entrepreneurs Rule

With my own eyes, I saw the fall of a totalitarian communist regime. As a teenager, my parents sent me to Poland in 1989. I lived with my grandmother for five months. Like most communist countries, Poland was run as a centrally planned economy. The government determined a budget via politicking. Then they choked off…