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Ken Siegel

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1. “Idea I came to Tristan. I was like, hey, I would like people to be able to see what I see. And then since then, we've added so many more features and just made it so much better that this is now a tool that I use nearly every single day. And if we go back to that idea, the same idea that was important to Steve Jobs, hey, we need a single idea expressed clearly. One of my favorite lines that I've ever heard, this is why there's so many, there's such a high amount of people that you and I study that were obsessed with learning from history, that had read hundreds of biographies throughout their career because they understood what Charlie Munger so eloquently said, that learning from history is a form of leverage. Learning from history is a form of leverage. Founders notes gives you the superpower to do this on demand. The podcast is a great tool to learn from history, but it is pushed to you. Founders Notes gives you the ability to control it. It gives you the ability to tap into that collective knowledge of...”

   2024-05-20 · Founders · #349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “It's the exact same thing. Probably didn't write it on a piece of paper. Certainly didn't call it the Hearst Principle. But if you think about what Steve Jobs is telling us, he's analyzed what his competitors are doing. He attacked a market full of second-rate products. He says, if I can't do that, I'm forced to find a new way and he found a new and better way that changed the trajectory of Apple forever. And I think this quote from Steve Jobs is a perfect place to close. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

   2024-05-20 · Founders · #349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “Key insight allowed Apple to leap ahead of the other company. Steve explained in a 2006 interview. Now, this is Steve's words. We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise, and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we had was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless. In other words, we analyzed everything that our competitors were doing, and in focusing on what they were not doing, we found a simple path forward. So why do I call that the Hearst principle? William Randolph Hearst built a media empire that would be worth like $30 billion in today's dollars. And it started out with a single newspaper in San Francisco that his father gave to him. And so at the time, there was a bunch of other newspapers, competitors serving.”

   2024-05-20 · Founders · #349 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source