Steve Jobs' 'genius' stemmed from being 'one of the most disagreeable people in history,' Marc Andreessen says

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Apple cofounder and former CEO Steve Jobs would argue with someone about the "shape of a glass," Marc Andreessen said.

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Disney and Apple are breaking up over App Store fees

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Apple and Disney have a long-standing relationship — Disney CEO Bob Iger and Apple CEO Tim Cook are pictured here at the 2016 Sun Valley Conference — but now there's a rift.

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3 things Apple's Tim Cook learned from working with Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs (right) and Tim Cook (left) worked closely during Jobs' final years at Apple.

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Welcome to America's hottest comedy club: LinkedIn

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Ken Cheng doesn't believe in giving his employees raises to boost productivity. He has a simpler solution: Take away their desk chairs. Without the ability to sit, workers are more alert and inspired, he wrote on LinkedIn.

Boomers had Jobs. Millennials had Zuck. Where are Gen Z's tech founders?

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Silicon Valley has long obsessed over the young, disruptive founder. So where are Gen Z's tech founders?

Steve Jobs once said what he really thinks about consultants — to a group of consultants

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Steve Jobs once told consultants: "You should do something."

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Mark Zuckerberg says he wants Meta to be remembered for building big

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"I would guess that if you look back, you know, 20, 30 years from now, we're still going to be a technology company. Right, we're not like — we're not an app company," Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg told content creator Tiffany Janzen in an interview.

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Before his death, Steve Jobs told Bob Iger to retire from Disney and try to enjoy the good things in life: report

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Bob Iger said in an interview with Time magazine last year that his return to Disney was inspired by Steve Jobs' return to Apple in 1997.

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A history of the feud between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, whose love-hate relationship spurred the success of Microsoft and Apple

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Steve Jobs, left, and Bill Gates, right, were alternately allies and enemies throughout their tenures at Apple and Microsoft, respectively.

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Starbucks' Howard Schultz talked Steve Jobs yelling at him, not trademarking the latte, and the coffee chain's bad path

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Howard Schultz.

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