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6.25am
5 July 2010
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I was reading Steve Job's Wiki (long story why) and came across this.
Jobs is also a Beatles fan. He has referenced them on more than one occasion at Keynotes and also was interviewed on a showing of a Paul McCartney concert. When asked about his business model on 60 Minutes, he replied
"My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept
each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other.
And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in
business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people."
Just thought that it was pretty awesome that one of the biggest CEOs in the world credits The Beatles in such ways
8.02am
31 March 2008
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Hahaha! The Beatles were *terrible* businessmen. That's one of the key reasons they split up. Even Brian Epstein was well out of his depth, though in fairness pretty much anyone else on the planet would have been too.
If you're interested in this stuff I recommend Beatles For Sale by John Blaney, followed by You Never Give Me Your Money by Peter Doggett. Both lay bare how a series of grave mistakes meant they lost out in £millions and lost the rights to their songs.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak named Apple after Apple, but I presume you knew that already.
12.05pm
14 October 2009
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The worst deal ever was when Epstein told Selteab (the USA company who wanted to licence Beatle products in 1964) that he would accept nothnig less than 10%……………..for the Beatles, thus giving Selteab 90%. They couldn't get the contract signed fast enough!!
12.32pm
19 September 2010
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True, but he Also gave a monopoly away on their British Tours
2.30am
13 November 2009
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Steve Jobs has clearly worked it out. When it came to the four of them making music, business was good. If only they had stuck to that.
4.56pm
31 March 2008
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I think he was talking about The Beatles working together as musicians, rather than as businessmen. I think the teamwork thing was fantastic right up to Pepper, and then after that on Abbey Road. They also had a core of studio staff in that time that knew exactly what they wanted, but in the later years a lot of different people got involved (not that I'm suggesting those people did a bad job, more that their predecessors were able to adapt to the group's changing needs as they were so familiar with them).
10.58pm
13 November 2009
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We're in agreement then. I wouldn't use Apple Corp as a brilliant business model. 
11.04pm
19 September 2010
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skye said:
We're in agreement then. I wouldn't use Apple Corp as a brilliant business model.
A Model of What not to do, sure.
11.10pm
13 November 2009
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Which is a shame because I wouldn't mind the swag from the company picnics. I can still hope for a job at Nintendo.
11.15pm
19 September 2010
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skye said:
Which is a shame because I wouldn't mind the swag from the company picnics. I can still hope for a job at Nintendo.
Nintendo? That brings me Back………Ahh Mario.
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