moorehn: Someone should start a Tumblr called Steve Jobs Ninja Stories. longreads: Jobs smiled warmly as he told them he was going after their market. “He said we were a feature, not a product,” says Houston. Courteously, Jobs spent the next half hour waxing on over tea about his return to Apple, and why not to trust investors, as the duo—or more accurately, Houston, who plays Penn to Ferdowsi’s mute Teller—peppered him with questions. When Jobs later followed up with a suggestion to meet at Dropbox’s San Francisco office, Houston proposed that they instead meet in Silicon Valley. “Why let the enemy get a taste?” he now shrugs cockily. Instead, Jobs went dark on the subject, resurfacing only this June, at his final keynote speech, where he unveiled iCloud, and specifically knocked Dropbox as a half-attempt to solve the Internet’s messiest dilemma: How do you get all your files, from all your devices, into one place? Houston’s reaction was less cocky: “Oh, s–t.”  “Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech’s Hottest Startup.” — Victoria Barret, Forbes See more #longreads from Forbes This is a nice piece. But, Fortune, please. I think the game has been changed enough already.

moorehn:

Someone should start a Tumblr called Steve Jobs Ninja Stories.

longreads:

Jobs smiled warmly as he told them he was going after their market. “He said we were a feature, not a product,” says Houston. Courteously, Jobs spent the next half hour waxing on over tea about his return to Apple, and why not to trust investors, as the duo—or more accurately, Houston, who plays Penn to Ferdowsi’s mute Teller—peppered him with questions.

When Jobs later followed up with a suggestion to meet at Dropbox’s San Francisco office, Houston proposed that they instead meet in Silicon Valley. “Why let the enemy get a taste?” he now shrugs cockily. Instead, Jobs went dark on the subject, resurfacing only this June, at his final keynote speech, where he unveiled iCloud, and specifically knocked Dropbox as a half-attempt to solve the Internet’s messiest dilemma: How do you get all your files, from all your devices, into one place?

Houston’s reaction was less cocky: “Oh, s–t.” 

“Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech’s Hottest Startup.” — Victoria Barret, Forbes

See more #longreads from Forbes

This is a nice piece. But, Fortune, please. I think the game has been changed enough already.

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    Someone should start a Tumblr called Steve Jobs Ninja Stories.
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    Is it just me or do you feel like throwing a drink in this guys face too?
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