Sublime

“If you’re not good, Jeff will chew you up and spit you out. And if you’re good, he will jump on your back and ride you into the ground.”

No place on earth is more baby-boomerish than Silicon Valley, and Jobs was its avatar: a CEO who wore jeans and emitted a “reality distortion field,” a sentimental, countercultural romantic who was also a ruthless mogul, a forever-young tinkerer dedicated to erasing the old distinctions between tools and toys, work and play.

4. Defend Your Prospect

“Jeff was angry, but not at me,” Cook says. “He was angry at himself for not stopping me when I said I wanted to join the eBay board in the first place. He doesn’t like losing.”

“blind spots.” Everyone has them. No one can see all the data needed to make the correct decision every time. “Even our best decisions are always made with incomplete information.” David Brown understands better than most what it means to have blind spots. When he laces up his shoes and places his feet in the running blocks, the most important sens

like the expert firefighters who suddenly make poor choices when faced with a fire in an unfamiliar structure. Chris

“That’s just the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard,” he said at a couple of meetings. That was a line that Steve Jobs used often. So did Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Their brutal honesty could be unnerving, even offensive. It could constrict rather than encourage honest dialogue. But it was also effective, at times, in creating what Jobs called a team

By the end of that year, he was one of the most frequently mentioned analysts on Wall Street and the unlikely nemesis of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

someone with an informed, original opinion about what the betting line should be, usually formulated through painstaking statistical modeling.