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Steve [jobs] And I Spent Months Getting To Know Each Other Before I Joined Apple. He Had No Exposure To Marketing Other Than What He Picked Up On His Own. This Is Sort Of Typical Of Steve. When He Knows Something Is Going To Be Important, He Tries To Absorb As Much As He Possibly Can.

I Was Recruited By Pepsi And Put Out In Pittsburgh, And I Worked In The Bottling Lines, And Then I Was Sent On To Phoenix, Arizona, Where I Also Drove Trucks And I Put Up Signs, Pepsi Signage, And I Was Then Sent On To Las Vegas For A Month Of Training, And Then I Finally Ended Up In Milwaukee. So I Got A Really Hands - On Introduction To The Soft-drink Industry. I Was So Appreciative Of The Fact That I Was Able To Not Only Learn A Business Through What I Learned At Business School, But I Was Able To Learn It With Hands-on Learning. I'm A Huge Believer In Hands-on Learning.

Apple No Longer Builds Any Products. When I Was There, People Used To Call Apple "a Vertically Integrated Advertising Agency," Which Was Not A Compliment.

I Remember Going Into Steve's [jobs] House, And He Had Almost No Furniture In It. He Just Had A Picture Of Einstein, Whom He Admired Greatly, And He Had A Tiffany Lamp And A Chair And A Bed. He Just Didn't Believe In Having Lots Of Things Around, But He Was Incredibly Careful In What He Selected.

Those Lessons That I Got Along The Way Are The Ones That Have Shaped My Life For The Last 20 Years.