They Want Me To Shadow Steve Jobs
October 16, 2007
My Mac-fanatic classmates definitely want me to do this shadowing, too. It’s actually pretty impressive to walk on campus of a business school and see how many Macs are used, since the folks on the picture are actually only a small sample of the Mac user base here.
OK, not in any way as impressing as those guys, but this is a business school, remember? Business - the realm of the Borg, where the other Steve has most of the market share and where I also was forced to use THE UGLY OS before getting back to school. No more ugly here.
Thanks to all of you who showed up!
October 16, 2007 at 22:02
you are going to make it my man!
October 18, 2007 at 17:53
Or possibly not…
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/10/some-dude-in-b-school-wants-to-shadow.html
October 18, 2007 at 21:15
Steve looked at this picture and thought, “This group paid for my next Whole Foods run. Very nice.”
October 18, 2007 at 23:31
Haha! I agree…no more ugly! Get rid of Ugly!
http://darktanis.wordpress.com/
October 19, 2007 at 4:04
I know where he lives, but that might be a little to creepy stalkerish.
October 19, 2007 at 11:34
Hi there dude,
I found you through FSJ, not RSJ, and i found your goals ambitious, heartwarming, and at the same time overkill.
Watch an episode of The Apprentice or Dragon’s Den, look at how this works. Idea, Create, Pitch, Invest, Produce, Profit.
I am no media mogul, or corperate cartel cunt, but i know this much. Work hard, achieve the best, and keep working at it. I did it this way. I went to school, then college, then university, got my degree with honours, and had no work experience. I worked for Barclaycard, and then took a chance. I went from being an Analyst to a Project Manager, and now lead projects for all the big names. Names like Bentley, Virgin (yes, Mr Branson, it is complete!!), Aston Marting, Kia, Hyundai, HP, Dell…
Today it is Hyundai, with 3 projects on the go, all due for completion today. Yes, today. I have time to write this as…they were ready yesterday. Yes, i managed the team, produced the product, and enabled effective delivery on time, on budget and on spec.
Do yourself a favour. Get into buisness and out of buisness school. My degree…MEDIA STUDIES. My experience…NONE…my sucess….Proven. I am happier than i have ever been, and have a nice car, nice wage, on top of the bills, no real debt, credit cards paid off…Happy. Dont cahse the master and try to emulate, become your own master, and create not emulate. Be the leader, not the follower, and listen yourself, not the teacher.
I wish you the success you crave, good luck.
A wellwisher in MK, UK
October 19, 2007 at 17:57
It’s not going to happen, for the very reason that the fake steve blog gave. You’re a business school student. If you were an engineer, you might have a shot, but it would still be a miniscule chance. The fact that you’ve tried to ride Steve’s coattails for publicity like this basically puts you in the “weasel” camp with the Greenpeace kiddies.
Here in Silicon Valley, B-schoolers are held in rather low regard, unless they came from Stanford, in which case they’re tolerated (but expected to do a great deal of work to actually learn the technology.)
A major reason for this low regard is the dot-com bubble. A bunch of clowns with the kind of degree that you’re getting, blew a whole lot of money on ideas that made no sense at all. Engineers with real inventions to develop resented that, and many of them still do.
October 20, 2007 at 12:25
To that guy who used to work at Apple:
You say “if you were an engineer”. He probably is, how do you know? And why should an engineer be better in developing great tools than a physicist or a biologist? And what’s so great about Stanford? It’s not the whole university that is going to work at your company but a single guy. And imagine, there are also some other great universities. And guess what! Even in Europe!
I’m also not very fond of these business schools. But they’re actually here to give people without a strong business/economic background some tools and ideas how to do it, the business. If Steve Jobs had had a good strategy how to run his company in the beginning of the 80’s, he probably wouldn’t have needed to hire a guy like Sculley that knows something about business but nothing about computers and people and therefore fucked up the company. Steve Jobs business strategies weren’t all that great throughout his career and probably some of the best products, e.g. NeXT, failed. Even for him it took years to accumulate all the knowledge that made Apple so successful.
Ergo: It isn’t necessarily a bad thing to get an MBA as a start. You never know when you can use it.
October 20, 2007 at 18:17
Actually I do have a science degree. However I never wore Birkenstocks, Europe’s footwear for scientists. At B-School on the other side I have been quite successful wearing jeans and t-shirt. So clichés are always clichés: they are very limited and are only used to simplify our complex world.
Anyway, guy who worked at Apple, you have a point: to be successful I’ll have to show that there is something in for Apple and Steve.