by James Hickman
Schiff Sovereign
In the year 1980, a young computer science grad student from the University of Washington named Burrell “Bud” Tribble accepted a job at a hot tech startup you might have heard of: it’s called Apple.
Tribble went to work directly for Steve Jobs on Apple’s most ambitious project at the time– the Macintosh. And he quickly learned, along with the rest of the Macintosh team, that Jobs’ management style was relentless, maniacal, and irrational… bordering on insane.
Steve Jobs famously dismissed his engineers’ doubts about whether they’d even be able to design such an audacious product. And he certainly didn’t care about minor inconveniences like the laws of physics or what was technologically achievable at the time. To Jobs, nothing was impossible. Full stop.