Apple founder Steve Jobs once told Kevin O’Leary to “shut up” during a meeting, and the entire story captures his famously abrasive style and obsession with results.
Steve Jobs, famously sitting with an original iMac
Steve Jobs, famously sitting with an original iMac
On the Diary of a CEO podcast, Kevin O’Leary called Jobs “not a nice guy” while recalling a sharp exchange from the early 1990s. At the time, O’Leary’s company was Softkey. In that company, O’Leary made educational software for Apple, so he communicated frequently with Jobs.
“Kevin, I don’t give a s**t what the students want,” Jobs allegedly told groups. “They don’t know what they want till I tell them what they want.”