Apple’s founder and CEO Steve Jobs on hiring:
“It seems like all the good people I really want to hire, it takes me a year to hire them. It’s always been that way, even at Apple.”
“I usually meet somebody that is really good. And you can’t get them. And then you go try to find other people. And nobody measures up.”
“When you meet somebody that good, you always compare them to this one person. And you know you’re going to be settling for second best if you compromise.”
“And I’ve always found it best not to compromise, and just keep chipping away.”
His VP of Marketing took a year and a half to hire.
“And they’re all worth it.”
Steve Jobs is a company founder and leader with scar tissue explaining what he
On hiring:
“It seems like all the good people I really want to hire, it takes me a year to hire them. It’s always been that way, even at Apple.”
“I usually meet somebody that is really good. And you can’t get them. And then you go try to find other people. And nobody measures up.”
“When you meet somebody that good, you always compare them to this one person. And you know you’re going to be settling for second best if you compromise.”
“And I’ve always found it best not to compromise, and just keep chipping away.”
His VP of Marketing took a year and a half to hire.
“And they’re all worth it.”
This talk is Steve Jobs at his most unfiltered. A founder with scar tissue explaining what he learned the hard way.
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