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Designer's Digest - Steve Jobs on the role of product and marketing people.

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What it is

A three-minute excerpt of a Steve Jobs interview in which he describes how monopolies let sales and marketing people displace product people, rotting a company's product sensibility, with Xerox as the example.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited constantly on HN whenever a large company declines, as the canonical explanation of product people being pushed out by sales and marketing.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “Steve Jobs has the best explanation for this.”

    Jobs's account of why monopolies get overtaken by competition.

    29athrowaway, 2023-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Intel Posts Largest Loss in Its History as Sales Plunge 36%”

  2. “Steve Jobs calls this out wonderfully here”

    Jobs explains how monopolies let sales people displace product people.

    deckard1, 2022-08 · Recommendation · in “Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps”

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Topics: steve jobs, product management, monopolies, company decline, xerox

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