Steve Jobs was Google's first choice for CEO

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I don't buy it. I am sure they admire Jobs and would love to have him (at least at the time), but this seems more like Larry and Sergei being intentionally difficult with the VCs forcing a CEO on them by selecting the most difficult one to get than an actual choice.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1851864

I wrote "This "article" is misleading. The video which this link-bait inaccurately describes states "they visited Steve Jobs just to meet him because he was a hero of theirs and they said to John Doerr after the meeting 'Why can't he be our CEO?'" (The section of the video pertaining to the CEO hiring starts around the 24 minute mark.) The video makes it seem as if that question was basically a joke and also that it wasn't ever directly posed to Steve Jobs. I resent being lied to by the puff piece, but it is interesting to think about how such an outcome would have changed things (bmelton's thoughts being an example)." when a slightly LESS misleading version of this submission was posted some months back.

I'm disappointed to see this has received 20 upvotes at HN. It has no citations, and it is obviously full of bunk.

somehow I find the implication that bezos interviewed for the google CEO position in 2000 a bit far-fetched

I heard a rumor that the actual first choice was Bill Clinton but the VCs balked because of his disbarrment issues.

Would he have been cultural fit? Google seems to be an extremely analytical, numbers driven company. Doesn't Steve jobs reject this approach?

Off-topic, but: holy cow is that auto-rotating deals widget in the sidebar annoying.

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