In the afternoon I talked to you about how hard it is to let go Steve Jobs convinced to do good things for users, and now we also learn how Steve Jobs tricked people into working for him, a person who was put in such a situation talking about the former CEO's strategy Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),.
The story centers around a man named James Green who was tricked by Steve Jobs into being the liaison between Pixar and Disney when the former co-founder of Apple still controlled Pixar.
Green says he was invited to Steve Jobs' house to discuss the job offer he had received, the former Apple CEO explaining to James Green at that time exactly what he had to do in the new job if he agreed to was part of Pixar.
Green explained to Jobs that although he was his idol for a good part of his life, he did not want to become the link between the two companies, but he would find out that Steve Jobs is not so easy to refuse, he managed to- Trick Green with another job offer.
He asked me if I was interested in being a liaison, and I can't believe it, but I said 'no,' All my life Steve Jobs had been an idol of mine, but I told him that it was not a job I would recommend anyone doing; having middlemen never works. You can't say 'no' to Steve Jobs. I did and I still got that goddamn job I didn't want to do.
More precisely, Steve Jobs offered Green the position of marketing manager for Pixar's short films, but after a week at the company he realized that Jobs had actually hired him to do the job of liaison between Disney and Pixar.
Deceived, Green worked for a few more months at Pixar before resigning and never working again in a company led by Steve Jobs.
