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by tomthecreator
1709 days ago
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Pretty sure the "you're a liar" is just a convenient way to blow it off without going into details. The buy was probably already questionable even for $50m, a number Steve probably already knew even before they entered the room. The exchange showed that the founders were going to be stubborn about the price. So in the end this isn't "trust is everything in business, and Steve was offended" but simply "don't jump into negotiations with your pants down". |
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What I think is slightly unreasonable and probably a sub text a few people is that anyone, the CEO of this company or not, thought that their value added to customers was worth $150 million to Apple. It was music suggestion and a like button.
Clearly nothing the Apple couldn’t and didn’t just copy.
$150 million for that? Perhaps another explanation is that Steve Jobs heard that number, realize the after enough of these meetings and acquisitions that dollars had lost their meaning, but this wasn’t worth it.