Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Steve Jobs in '95

A little while ago, there was a post on kottke featuring a selection of Steve Jobs interviews; one from '95 (back at Apple and Pixar but pre-Toy Story), a year later and then the 2007 interview with Bill Gates.

Some of the transcripts are quite long but they are definitely worth reading.. its particularly seeing what he was saying back in 1995, and also has some very interesting ideas on education, which I think would be really interesting..

What does the State of California spent per pupil per year in a public school? About forty-four hundred dollars ... I believe very strongly that if the country gave each parent a voucher for forty-four hundred dollars that they could only spend at any accredited school several things would happen. Number one schools would start marketing themselves like crazy to get students. Secondly, I think you'd see a lot of new schools starting. I've suggested as an example, if you go to Stanford Business School ...You could get a bunch of people coming out of college tying up with someone out of the business school, they could be starting their own school. You could have twenty-five year old students out of college, very idealistic, full of energy instead of starting a Silicon Valley company, they'd start a school



read the 1995 interview here.

or read the next one here

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