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Why David's outfit when the nailed the big deal


He's the boss sitting down on a big deal and he looks like he just got in from a jog and threw on a suit jacket? Wonder how they thought this one out. Anyone clarify? Good film otherwise.

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Maybe he's like Steve Jobs (or try to emulate him), you know wearing jeans and turtleneck even on formal occasions..

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Cant' resist, as per Steve Jobs. His jeans and turtleneck phase came years after his phase of ripped jeans, bare, dirty feet, and B.O., which he didn't think he had because of his strict vegetarian and/or fruitarian diet. This was before his first Apple phase, when he was still scrambling for venture capital for starting some kind of firm. He would get a lot of comments from people about the B.O. and even got tossed out of the office of an early Silicon Valley pioneer, when Steve went to see him about investment capital, put his dirty feet on the guy's desk, and the guy kicked him out of the office, yelling, "get your dirty feet off my desk."

Then Steve met Wozniak, the real genius of Apple, who knew nothing about marketing or selling. Woz single-handedly designed the Apple I and II, which kept Apple afloat before Jobs was fired and then rehired. After that, Jobs gathered an A-team of creative minds, especially Andy Herztfeld, to create the MacIntosh, a flop at first, then the iPod, iPad, and iMac. But Jobs never created anything. He motivated, cajoled and threatened his team to create what he envisioned. He was a visionary, but a complete jerk as a person.

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