• johnsciarrino@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    If you read Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, both Steves got started in the fledgling industry by doing exactly that; sending letters and showing up at the offices of established people in the industry and just asking them for stuff. I think that’s how Jobs got his first gig at Atari, if i remember correctly.

    Very cool that both of them, who benefitted so much from reaching out personally, decided to pay it forward when they became titans themselves.

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      1 year ago

      Jobs got an internship at HP by just looking up Bill Hewlett in the phone book, calling him up, and asking for some spare parts for a project he was working on.