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Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 1997 with Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs at Apple's 1997 WWDC, shortly after his return, taking developer questions and describing Apple's direction. He discusses the Newton and says to start from the customer experience and work back to technology.
Why HN readers recommended it
Held up as a masterclass in handling a crisis and a hostile Q&A, and quoted for starting from customer experience.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- superapple4ever
- Topic
- steve jobs leadership
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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My favorite Jobs masterclass is his talk at Apple's developer conference in 1997 [1]. He had just returned to the company, and a lot of people were unhappy with him and/or Apple at the time. He decided to do an hour long off-the-cuff Q&A session …
resu_nimda on Hacker News · 2020-07
In A Steve Jobs masterclass from a decade agoApple was in a terrible situation around the end of the 90's. Steve Jobs just became CEO and had to manage the crisis, both internally as well as externally (developers for Apple's platform). This talk at WWDC 97 shows how Steve Jobs dealt with the …
wsc981 on Hacker News · 2012-07
In How to Manage Your Team During A Crisis
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