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To: Doren who wrote (8539)	2/16/1998 1:43:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 213177

1) Help start a multibillion dollar company His only valid act 2) Revitalize another Who?? 3) Started another excellent High Tech company that didn't make it more because of market forces than management. Dumb, doomed from the start (Next) 4) Recaptured a multibillion dollar company he'd been pushed out of. Asked back in misplaced desperation, and still not really back. Not a bad lifes work. Sure he's got an ego problem. But this guy was good from the start. He didn't start at Warton business school, he started at the way bottom in a tech company. He learns from mistakes. And the micromanagement complaints are nonsense. Look at Pixar. Pixar is still got far to go. He does not run it personally, it has it's own staff. If he ran it he would break it. he just might. Wait 2-3 years and see where Pixar is. He or his managers have made a few mistakes lately, partnering for example. Bill

To: Doren who wrote (8539)	2/16/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: Alomex	Respond to of 213177

Look at Pixar. The word on Valley was that Pixar succeeded because, to its good fortune, Jobs was too busy with NeXT. Now I'm no fan of Jobs, and I've said so here many times, but I do think Bill overstates his case. Having said that, I'd say that, to this date, Jobs has not proven himself as a manager. He was fired from Apple after getting on bad terms with everybody, plus he left a sick corporate culture that impacted everything else Apple tried, even after he left. Then Jobs mismanaged NeXT into tremendous losses, making many mistakes that could be seen from a mile away (as opposed to in hind sight) such as pricing, black and white monitors, and lack of disk drive . With Pixar he was more of an investor than CEO, providing his name only for marketing purposes (his actual role was closer to CoB).