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How A Non-Programmer Launched A Huge Software-Based Business

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What Andrew is doing is priceless. If his interviews don't motivate you enough to go and grab what you want, chances are nothing will.

This was great, I haven't really watched much Mixergy before.

Andrew asked good questions and the interviewee's story and the way he came to do this was pretty sympathetic. Good on him.

What I really appreciated about this interview was Jason Jacobs humility. To me that's one key characteristic of a good leader. Notice how he constantly praises his team? Others CEOs and leaders should use this as a positive example.

If you want to find something worth building, get busy living.

"The guy is so passionate about his idea that developers and designers wanted to work with him, even before he had enough money to hire full-time coders."

So he's a Jobs, who found some Woz's to work with him.

You're really underselling Wozniak here.

The guy was absolutely brilliant.

To say Jobs found "some Woz's to work with him" devalues his contributions to Apple's success.

Pretty sure there are tons of Wozs -- even here on HM -- but How many Jobs are out there? I'm usually the first to say that most "business" cofounders are dumbasses with dumbass, cheap, uninformed ideas...but Jobs-level is like top .001%.

And For the record, fuck Apple -- my startup is MS-tech based -- but respect for Jobs as as smart mother fucker.

As mentioned you've underestimated woz. Although to cut you some slack - when Apple first started Woz was doing stuff at the .001% level. (And Steve probably wasn't). These days woz seems like he's basically kicking back and enjoying himself. But now Jobs is at the top of his game.

> These days woz seems like he's basically kicking back and enjoying himself.

I think he always did.

Woz is the epitome of Zen.

If by "a Woz," you mean "somebody who can program computers well," then yes, there are lots of those. If you mean somebody of Woz's calibre, though, you'd be lucky to find one in your lifetime.

This is the first app I see that would actually be useful to me.

Inspirational....

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