Negotiating With Steve Jobs

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Shortly into my pitch, Steve took the contract from me and scanned down to the key term, the royalty rate. I had pitched 15%, our standard. Steve pointed at it and said,
“15%? That is ridiculous. I want 50%.”

I was stunned. There was no way I could run my business giving him 50% of my product revenues. I started to defend myself, stammering about the economics of my side of the business. He tore up the contract and handed me the pieces. “Come back at 50%, or don’t come back,” he said.
TL;DR - Use fuzzy math to your advantage
 


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“I get that you can’t afford to pay fifty percent of gross,” said Dan’l, “but Steve wants to see 50% on that contract. So figure out a way to make a contract that you can live with that also says 50% at the bottom.”
 
“I get that you can’t afford to pay fifty percent of gross,” said Dan’l, “but Steve wants to see 50% on that contract. So figure out a way to make a contract that you can live with that also says 50% at the bottom.”

TL;DR - OP should actually read an entire article before drawing and sharing pointless conclusion.
 
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The Jobs, most don't know!


He's also known for turning down employees ideas as stupid and then representing them back to them later as his own ideas.

The real Scumbag Steve.
 
He also said that LSD has changed his life tremendously, but refused to donate to LSD research. Even Albert Hofmann begged him to no avail.
 
What is it about this fucking charity thing?

This is a guy who singlehandedly created the smartphone industry, and with that did more to affect people's lives than any charity ever has. That would be worth 1 lifetime's achievement but no, he changed about 5 other industries as well.

Who gives a shit about his charity work? Or whether he was nice. I'd seriously like to beat these fucking hippies with their own smartphones when they go on about this shit. Who cares if he was nice or not. (Not to mention, people weren't forced to work for him! And his style usually got rid of the betas and insecure idiots and he was left with the best of the best).

Long live Steve's achievements!
 
First thought its a stupid thread but indeed with the link it makes alot sense.
Jobs was not the only doing it in that way.

The problem is, when you get a 50% contract and when you look in it you get its only 15% ;)
 
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This is a guy who singlehandedly created the smartphone industry, and with that did more to affect people's lives than any charity ever has. .............

You are an idiot.

Smartphones have been around before Apple got into the market.
He just timed his entry right (and the iPhone was sweet, but NOT the first smartphone)

I also doubt that having a smartphone did more to people's live than charities.

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You are an idiot.

Smartphones have been around before Apple got into the market.
He just timed his entry right (and the iPhone was sweet, but NOT the first smartphone)

I also doubt that having a smartphone did more to people's live than charities.

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Yep sorry you're right. There was also a tablet market before the iPad.
 
hahaha I LOL'ed hard at the liver transplant caption. I feel good about myself now since I've done and will continue to do some socially questionable things but, compared to Jobs, I'm just an amateur :). My conscience is clean now.

btw, anyone realize that conscience is spelled con-science? Oh the irony.
 
hah just saw these yesterday on imgur and this thread come up.

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He's also known for turning down employees ideas as stupid and then representing them back to them later as his own ideas.

The real Scumbag Steve.

Why does a corporation HAVE to give money to charity? Is this something new that came along with Obamacare? Steve Jobs was a dick, but that's what helped hin create Apple to what it is today. If you compare most people that make it at that level, they are pretty brutal to work for.

Steve Jobs also didn't invent the smartphone, BUT he did make it more appealing to more users and started a huge wave of technological leaps in phone capabilities which was stagnate with Blackberry till then. Him and his Company have done A LOT for technology like get the GUI interface from Xerox, which Microsoft later stole and got to market first, there is no obligatory need to give money to charity - that's a socialist agenda.

There is no NEED or mandatory requirement to give back. If you get to that level and WANT to give back then do so. If you don't whatever, people are going to talk shit no matter what anyways. If he gave 10%, socialist are going to come in and say 'Why didn't he give 20%, or 40%, or all of his money away.' There is a tax benefit Apple didn't use, but I doubt they needed it, since they were already paying one of the lowest taxes in corporate history (How to make $30 billion and pay no corporate income tax, the Apple way).

What smartphones have allowed us to do is to get to the internet fast, like me being able to see this socialist laden post while laying in bed, which gave me a motivation to get up and reply.

Imagine if you created a company then someone comes along and says you HAVE to spend your money like this, everyone else is doing it... shit sounds ridiculous. If you WANT you can, but you are NOT obligated to.​
 
He also said that LSD has changed his life tremendously, but refused to donate to LSD research. Even Albert Hofmann begged him to no avail.
No fucking way! Jobs is now pegged somewhere between Stalin and Jeffrey Dahmer.
 
Really interesting article OP

I've read and watched quite a lot about Jobs and likely anyone, he has a lot of good and bad it seems. But then again, if people took your life apart. quoted every bad thing you said, every bad act, would you come out much better?

Jobs changed the world massively, you have to respect him for that.