THE VIDEO SHELF · product versus sales management
Designer's Digest - Steve Jobs on the role of product and marketing people.
A three-minute excerpt of a Steve Jobs interview in which he describes how monopolies let sales and marketing people displace product people, rotting a company's product sensibility, with Xerox as the example.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited constantly on HN whenever a large company declines, as the canonical explanation of product people being pushed out by sales and marketing.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Designer's Digest
- Topic
- product versus sales management
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2026
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
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
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