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Philippe Starck reveals the real story behind Steve Jobs' yacht

A blunder by a phone operator might have prevented the miracle from taking place and no one would have ever known about it. Philippe Starck still laughs at the thought. It was seven years ago, at the headquarters of his Parisian offices near the Place de la République. The employee had informed the famous French decorator that a Mr. Jobs had called. The young woman did not see who that might be—despite the fact that she probably had a Mac running in front of her and had been downloading music on her iPod for some time. Perhaps she had even seen Toy Story , the film that revolutionized animated features. Still, she had not made the connection with the founder of Apple, former owner of Pixar , the man who transformed technology into an object of desire and commerce. She had written down his name but had refused to disturb her boss. The caller, who had spoken English, hung up without leaving a number. “Can you imagine the aura of Jobs in 2007” chuckles Starck today. “He was basically God! And she doesn't put him through because she didn't know who he is! We were off to a good start.”

It was a miracle that the Californian divinity was not discouraged. “For anyone who knew Steve,” Starck adds, “he almost certainly wouldn't call back after such a humiliation.” A few weeks after this, "God" was on line again. This time, the Parisian designer was just leaving for Milan, to the annual furniture trade show, a ritual meeting place for the experts of planet design. A half-dozen motorcycle taxis awaited him, as well as members of his team, with their engines running. He barely had enough time to make the flight to Italy where a multitude of press conferences had been scheduled—being late was not an option. “I already had my helmet on when the operator caught me, breathless,” he says. “Monsieur Starck! Monsieur Starck! You know that person, that Mr. Jobs? He wants to talk to you!” I took off my helmet and heard his voice: “Would you like to make me a boat?” “Well… sure,” I replied. The two men only exchanged but a few words: “Fifteen seconds” of conversation, confirms Philippe Starck. To the American billionaire's direct question: “Will you know how?” he says he proudly replied, before blazing on to the airport, “Of course! I have palms in between my fingers and scales on my back. I am amphibian.”

The son of an engineer who designed airplanes, Starck spent a great part of his childhood admiring ships. At 15, he taught survival in the case of shipwreck at a sailing school in the bay of Morlaix, he and his brother also raced boats on the Seine. “I always had boats, whatever the size,” he told the quaterly Mer & Bateaux in 2012 . I always have one in the concept stage or the building stage. My wife and I have lived in places where we could have a boat moored in front of our house. We live on the water and for the water.” Famous for his hotel and restaurant designs all over the world —the Café Costes, the Mama Shelter hotel, the Meurice and the Royal Monceau in Paris, the Royalton in New York, the Mondrian in Los Angeles and the Fasano in Rio—Starck did not necessarily want to design yachts for anyone beside himself. In Starck Explications , a manifesto published in 2003 for the exhibition dedicated to his work at the Pompidou Center, he tells the story of a prank pulled on a client who wanted to commission him a yacht : he had advised him to first go for a swim to see whether he truly needed a boat! Later, a “gorgeous woman,” whose name he does not mention, made him a new offer (it was Hala Fares, the spouse of the businessman and Lebanese vice-premier minister Issam Fares) that he declined because he found the very idea of a yacht “structurally vulgar.” The lady, cunningly, defied him to build one that avoided vulgarity, and for her he designed Wedge Too . Six years later, in 2008, Starck conceived the A for Andrey Menichenko, the Russian oligarch. 119 meters long and weighing 6000 tons, it’s one of the greatest motor yachts ever made, and its cost was an estimated $300 million. Its aggressive form was the object of very lively criticism: in an article on January 23, 2008, the Wall Street Journal even wondered whether it wasn’t “the world’s ugliest boat.”

Moreover, Starck prides himself on helping save the Bénéteau ship yard in Vendée from bankruptcy by designing a line of sailboats for it, then conceiving a revolutionary single-rudder racer, Virtuelle , designed in 1997, for a very wealthy Italian (even though the plans are officially signed by a transalpine naval architect). According to Starck, ten years later, it was this sailboat, with its minimal lines, that Steve Jobs cited as an example to persuade him to work for him—“ Virtuelle is the most beautiful boat I’ve seen in my life,” is what he told him ( Mer & Bateaux , December 2012). Starck, who is not averse to tributes, and is prompt to quote this Rousseau sentence : “I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices,” took the compliment as a challenge. Jobs too had his contradictions. In 1995, after Pixar ’s successful skylight public offering, he had said he “was not planning on buying a yacht.” But Venus was not going to be just any yacht.

THE ASCETIC AND THE BON VIVANT

On April 28, 2007, Philippe Starck and his companion, Jasmine —he would marry her the following December—turned up in front of Steve Jobs residence in Palo Alto, California, in north Silicon Valley. The area seemed ordinary, the entrance gate did not look like much. A driver had taken them there after a twelve-hour flight between Paris and Los Angeles. Noting the modesty of the place, the French designer felt obliged to add : “We’re going to Steve Jobs’, you know, the head of Apple.” But the chauffeur did not turned around, it was the right address. “We got out. The gate in old ironwork was about a meter tall and there was a detail that struck me and pleased me, it closed with a plumbing jointure. I said to myself, “Wait, it might actually be here after all.” Starck opened it, crossed a “small yard,” knocked on the glass of what looked like a kitchen door. “It vibrated the way old tiles do. No one came but everything was open. Suddenly, a ghostly silhouette appeared, dressed in black. “Hi Philippe!” It was him, he kissed us. He was, straight away, extremely warm.”

It was there, in that “very humble little home in a chic and classic American suburb,” and which Philippe Starck deems was no bigger than 200 sq. meters, “that looked like 150,” that the two men came to know each other. Over the next four years, in the course of regular work sessions, a discreet and stimulating friendship united the two ingenious creative spirits, both endowed with equally oversized egos.

“He was the god of fastidiousness and I, I was the emperor of fastidiousness,” proclaims Philippe Starck quite simply. I am meeting with the designer in Paris, at one of his offices with a view on Place du Trocadéro. I had obtained the interview by dint of persistence and persuasion—after all, Jobs himself had had to call more than once. Starck is always in between two planes and ten homes (he owns properties—among other places—in Paris, Venice, Cap-Ferret.). He wants to be everywhere and nowhere, omnipresent but elusive. After all, he has called his company Ubik, borrowed from Phillip K. Dick’s masterpiece in which characters evolve in parallel universes.

Today, his company's offices and his main home are on the third floor of a majestic 1930s building with a panoramic view of the Eiffel tower and white spaces. Philippe Starck is wearing his usual outfit: jeans, sneakers and a hoodie. Jasmine is near him. A tall brunette, she too is wearing an informal uniform—black jeans and sneakers. A former publicist for the LVMH Group, she never leaves the side of her 65-year-old genius (she is 23 years younger), she monitors and records his words, intervenes, if necessary, to insert a recollection, corroborate a date, clarify a circumstance. A group of assistants finishes sweeping the room we are meeting in. “Cleaning,” in the true sense of the word, as in the figurative sense, is one of his obsessions. One day, he tells me, as he still couldn’t get over having been received by Steve Jobs in a house so wanting in luxury (in 2008, Forbes estimated the latter’s fortune to be $5.7 billion, the equivalent of more than 4 billion euros), he was emboldened to ask, “Steve, do you really live here?” “ Yes, why?” he answered. “It’s just that… everything is so clean, orderly, so tidy…" The Apple boss replied , “Oh, you want to see a mess?” and led him to his office. “There were a few newspapers scattered on the floor and two pairs of sneakers. This, for him, was the height of disorder.

As he recalls it, Steve Jobs lived in the middle of emptiness. “Not chic minimalism,” he states. “Rustic, rather. There was just nothing. A couch, three armchairs, a coffee table in the living room… Nothing.” In the biography that he devoted to the Californian inventor ( Steve Jobs , JC Lattes, 2011), Walter Isaacson also describes a man who was “so demanding with furniture” that his homes were empty. Before the one that Philippe Starck visited, he did nonetheless own a fourteen-room hacienda . For the house in Palo Alto, bought after his marriage to Laurene Powell in 1997, Jobs had to force himself to set up a minimum level of comfort—beds for a start—basic requirements for a family with three children (Reed, Erin and Eve). His character, sustained by Oriental philosophy was marked by austerity and bareness. On this point, the two men were in sync. “I’ve tried to be inspired by the Asian idea that emptiness is more important than fullness.” he wrote in Starck explications . Hence, the famous transparent chair he designed in 1998, and named The Marie, that is introduced as an “almost perfect object.” Just as the work that culminated in the birth of Venus tried to reach the “elegance of the minimal” according to Philippe Starck

Between April 2007 and the fall of 2011 (Steve Jobs died on October 5th, 2011), the Starcks travelled to Palo Alto one Sunday a month, usually with Thierry Gaugain—“my right arm, an exceptional character,” states the designer. Each session lasted twelve almost uninterrupted hours. The work was done on a coffee table, their backs bent, their noses only three feet above the floor. That is how it was. A torment for the bon vivant Philippe Starck, the usual posture for the ascetic Steve Jobs, invariably dressed in the black turtlenecks designed for him by Issey Miyake. It never occurred to the billionaire to even offer them a drink. “A large window hung above the space where we used to work,” recalls Starck. “We were literally cooking. From time to time Laurene would look in, “Have you offered them something to drink?” He would then return with a glass of water. There was never any food in his kitchen. Other than once when we ate together.” Starck remembers their host barely touched the dishes. Apart from his strict and hardcore vegan nutritional fads and phobias, Jobs was already gravely ill, cancer had been eating away at him since 2003. The Starcks say that each time they hugged him, they had the feeling that they would soon be holding nothing but a sheet of paper in their arms. “It still makes me tear up,” the decorator says—and while he easily draws the picture of an “poser," or "a show off", his eyes do, in fact, fill with tears at the memory.

A POT OF HONEY EVERY YEAR

In his conversations with Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs told the story of his yacht’s creation stating that Philippe Starck simply “helped” him design its interior design. It would be an understatement to say the latter did not appreciate this delegation. He considers himself the true parent of this floating unidentified object made of aluminum and glass, with its perfectly flat teak bridges and a beveled prow. If he is speaking—“for the first and the last time,” he emphasizes,—about his work on this project, and his relationship with Jobs, it is not only to provide “ a more nuanced analysis” of the strange client who commissioned it, but also, in great part, to set the record straight.

For him, there are two important facts that must be remembered. The first is that he, Philippe Starck, was chosen out of everyone else by the great man to bring his nautical dream into material existence. He recalls an anecdote told by Steve Jobs : “Every year we go on vacation on my friend Larry Ellison’s boat [the other Silicon Valley genius, founder of Oracle, according to Forbes in 2013 the world’s fifth richest man, is a sailing fanatic]. And every year, I say to myself, I too should have a boat built. But I don’t do it. Two years ago, I decided I was going to go for it. I looked at everything, asked everyone, and came to the conclusion that only one person can do it: you.” Even with an ego inflated with helium, how can one not keel over at such praise? “It was more than an honor,” Starck says, “a sacrament.” No doubt he means a consecration. Liturgical words are omnipresent in the mouth of this claimed atheist. During our conversation, he later invoked the “philosophical communion” of two souls in love with perfection.

So, Super Starck left their first meeting entranced. Galvanized by the confidence the most demanding of clients has placed in him. “He was giving me carte blanche, in some way.” The following night, in Los Angeles, he says he was struck by inspiration. Here, the second important fact, “I designed it all—all, all, all, in one and a half hours. The whole thing was wrapped up. I work extremely quickly.” Under what circumstances? “I was in bed. My wife was sleeping next to me. Los Angeles reminded me of Steve, Steve sailing… I said to myself, “Hang on, I’m going to draw it.” Jobs had given him very simples rules to work with. The length of the hull : 82 meters exactly. The number of passengers: “Family and crew. A total of six rooms, all of them identical.” And above all, one requirement: silence. “Steve wanted to be sure that the teenagers could be set up in the front of the boat when he was at the back and vice-versa. He was obsessed with silence. In his home, children did not make noise, nor the dog, nor his wife… no one made any noise, ever.”

Even on July 11th, 2008, the day the world discovered the iPhone 3G, the little house remained preternaturally calm. Starck remembers being the bewitched witness of this moment . “The entire world was in an uproar, people were standing in line for hours, in front of stores. It was the greatest launch of all time [barely three days later, Apple announced it had sold over a million units], the greatest investment and he barely seemed to register it. Not a single phone call made or received. Wow! That's true aristocracy in organization and mastery of self.”

At the next meeting, initially planned as the second contact between them, Starck arrived “with all the drawings.” He was carrying a large suitcase—“1.2 meters, 1.3 meters,” he deems—that contained the mock up of the future yacht. After a moment of perplexity, Jobs was wonderstruck and supposedly exclaimed: “It’s more than I could never [sic] imagine.” Starck’s freeform translation: “The world’s most powerful man, known as being the most intransigent, incapable of saying thank you or bravo, was telling us, “This is beyond all my dreams.””

Incredible indeed. Jobs’ biography, that was published after his death, underscores the genius’ versatility, his disingenuousness, his propensity to humiliate, to be obnoxious with his most faithful friends and collaborators—in short, to burn everything he adored. Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, or John Sculley, the historical CEO of the Apple company, paid the price. “He could be charming with those he detested, just as he could be detestable with those he loved.” writes Isaacson. Had their collaboration lasted longer, perhaps Philippe Starck too would have had to suffer Steve Jobs’ moods. When I suggested this hypothesis, he frowned. “I’m not sure about that,” he answered me, “He liked us. Through this boat, we came to be among the three or four friends that really mattered to him.” As proof of this, he offers the fact that every year, the California billionaire would send a pot of honey from his own hives. And that he sometimes expressed a touching preoccupation for to the young couple he and Jasmine formed. On the fated day, when in religious silence, the plans drawn by the decorator were “scanned and rescanned,” examined from every angle by Jobs in the course of a few minutes, he says he only heard him utter four “very pleasing” sentences. The first was, “Are you going to get married?” Answer: “Maybe.” The second: “Are you planning to have children?” An even more elliptical answer, “Euh…” “I knew it, I was telling Laurene,” he had smilingly answered. And the last: “Very well, carry on like this. See you next month.” For Starck, this too is a point of pride: “I don’t believe he’d ever experienced it in his life. We’re used to it: in general, people don’t talk, they find whatever is being presented to them to be very fine. But coming from him—especially when we learned in the book, after his death, the way he treated others—it was stunning.”

Philippe Starck admits, nevertheless, to having first-hand experienced the down side of this 'detail freak'(dixit his autobiography).The four years that followed the initial approval consisted of a millimeter by millimeter examination of the plans. “In order to achieve the height of intelligence in everything,” explains the designer rather cryptically. According to him, nothing was modified of his initial drawings, but everything was revisited. “With Thierry Gaugain, we reinvented marine technology, no less,” he says. “Nothing like it had been undertaken, not since the dawn of time. Still, the client argued about every detail, and for Starck it sometimes went “beyond the annoying.” “I don't want to sound pretentious,” he says, “but we are professionals. We have designed rockets [for Virgin Galactic], motorcycles [for Aprilia], electric cars, boats… When we present a solution, we know it’s the right one. With Thierry Gaugain, we would float him flurries of ideas at each meeting, and for his part, he’d answer, “No, no, no.” Until the moment when, because he had in mind the shipyard's schedule, he would pick an idea and say, “I’ve got it, this is what we’ll do.” And, to our shattered stupefaction, we would realize it was the solution we had presented him with the previous month or two years prior. “But Steve…” It was to no avail, he had appropriated it.”

It seems this was Steve Jobs' way. Those close to him had resigned themselves to referring to his “distortion of reality” syndrome. The most enormous distortion in Starck’s eyes was the one forming the basis of the “lie” perpetrated about him in Jobs' talks with Isaacson that served primarily as material for his hagiography (before devoting himself to the founder of Apple, this ex-head of CNN and Time had written biographies of two monumental figures in science: Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin). On page 595 of the book, he writes, “To outfit the interior, he hired Philippe Starck, the French designer, who would come regularly to Palo Alto to work on the plans.” Starck is still indignant. “He must have said that two months before he died,” he snaps, ”How could he still want to lie to serve his own glory? So powerful was his ego, such was the distortion of reality within him that he was incapable of recognizing the work of another person.” In the version of the story according to Starck, that he presents as the only acceptable one, beginning with the second meeting, “not a single wall, not the smallest detail of the hull” underwent any changes from what he had imagined in his bed in Los Angeles. “We looked at everything during the course of four years, but nothing shifted by even a tenth of a millimeter.” Seated next to him, Jasmine too sighs at the ingratitude of “Steve.” “And yet he displayed such great confidence in us.”

A PHILOSOPHICAL OBJECT

On a Sunday in 2009, the year of his liver transplant, Jobs told them, “I’m going to disappear for three months, I will call you on such and such a day at 10 o’clock.” On the said day and hour, he asked them to come back to Palo Alto. A reunion. “We were very moved,” recalls Starck. “He hated personal questions, but at the time, after such a resurrection, I was compelled to ask him, “Have you thought about your life? Are there things you would like to change?” He answered, “Nothing. I would not want a different one. I have had a great deal of time to reflect, I have thought about the boat. There are, today, three things that matter to me: my family, my company and you guys.” He was talking about Jasmine and I! He added, “My only problem is that you don’t live on my street.” Moved, the Starcks set to work, bending over the coffee table. Five years later, in his immaculate office, Starck proclaims this with a bit of exaltation, “There will never again be a boat of that quality again. Because never again will two madmen come together to accomplish such a task. There'll never again be so much creativity, rigor, and above all philosophy, applied to a material creation. It was not a yacht that Steve and I were constructing, we were embarked on a philosophical action, implemented according to a quasi-religious process. We formed a single brain with four lobes.”

One might wonder what exactly an 82-meter philosophical object, capable of crossing all the world’s seas, looks like. “When we talked, it was not to decide whether it was better to use aluminum or steel. The questions that arose were of an ethical order. As for the details, try to imagine the height of minimalism.” Where specifics are concerned, that is not a lot to go with. At most, the designer proffers that the cockpit was “a piece of curved glass, 23 meters long, 6 centimeters thick,”—a prowess whose materialization was entrusted to the chief engineer of the Apple Stores. He even refuses to confirm the description of the control panel equipped with seven 27” iMac screens, released in 2012 at the time of the ship’s launch, upon its completion by the Royal de Vries ship yard in the south-west of Amsterdam (this is also true of a few other particularities, like the presence of a large terrace with an integrated Jacuzzi, and avant-gardist processes for aeration, and completely silent electronically controlled blinds.) “There are just commands, but there is no complex home automation. Each person would have their own portable controls with them.” he explained in Mers & Bateaux . Photographs of this floating building were taken at its launch from the Dutch shipyard, but no views of the interior have ever been communicated. “The philosophy was the same as for the exterior: the least of everything,” confides Starck. With a reproachful pout, he adds, “In Steve’s lifetime, I had formulated recommendations for the furnishings, but Laurene put in the furniture she wanted. I’m not there to interfere in these people’s taste.”

Starck also refused to confirm the cost of this prodigious vessel of the seas. The press has mentioned 100 million euros. He neither says yes nor no and dodges the question with this circumlocution: “Its price is totally normal relative to the work undertaken and to its religious quality.” We’ll have to wait for Laurene Jobs or her children to sell the yacht to hope to learn its worth—and even then, there’s nothing to say the transaction figures would be divulged. As for the rest, it seems unlikely that the inheritors should choose one day to get rid of what was the last dream of the founder of Apple. “I know it’s possible that I may die and leave Laurene with a half-finished boat,” he confided to Isaacson a few months before his passing, “but I must continue. Otherwise, it would be admitting that I am going to die.”

The Venus sailed, granted. Yet its launch was not without turmoil. When he heard the men at the Royal de Vries shipyard usurp the boat’s paternity in front of Jobs’ family, collaborators and friends, Philippe Starck flew into a rage. “It was a good shipyard, but with people whose moral fiber was particularly elastic and who had the staggering nerve to say that they had designed this extraordinary boat, the most inventive in the world,” he says indignantly. “I haver never experienced in my entire life such violence through a lie.” Jasmine interrupts him to elaborate on the scene, “You said, “You've got to be kidding!” and we took off.” No doubt, his heart was still raging when on the following December 21st, the French decorator ordered the yacht seized in the port of Aaalsmeer.” He invoked a lawsuit brought for two unpaid invoices. Indeed, Steve Jobs’ inheritors refused to pay the 3 million euros that are owed to Starck on a total fee of 9 million euros—they consider the $6 million already paid match the percentage agreed upon in advance.

“Some lawyer probably wanted to look clever,” the decorator murmurs today. At the time, he was forced to admit no written document formalized the financial aspect of his agreement with Jobs. His representative in Holland explained that the two men were “very close during the period of the creation of the design,” and during the construction, adding that it was “in part why no formal work agreement had been drawn up.” Three days later, a compromise was reached between the two parties’ lawyers and the seizure order was lifted. The Venus embarked a cargo ship not long thereafter, headed for the United States. No image of Steve Jobs aboard it or overseeing its construction has ever been shown—no one even knows if he was able to see the boat with his own eyes. Philippe Starck, for his part, has never seen it sail.

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S teve Jobs’ luxury yacht, Venus, was photographed recently, providing a glimpse of the interior for the first time.

Photos of 100 million euro yacht were taken by people at Woods Hole Inn in Cape Cod, Mass., Gizmodo reported Monday. The French-designed yacht debuted in 2012, one year after Jobs died, but until now there have been photos of only the exterior.

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Steve Jobs' yacht gives insights into his design process

Jobs and noted designer Philippe Starck spent five years working out the details of the super yacht Venus.

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Last month, we stumbled upon videos of Steve Jobs' yacht , the Venus, which was reportedly unveiled a year after Jobs' death. The sleek, clean design has a certain Apple Store look to it, complete with a row of 27-inch iMacs on board, but there's no evidence the crew will don those blue Genius bar shirts.

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Then recently SuperYacht Times interviewed French designer Philippe Starck , who Jobs collaborated with to design Venus. (You might remember erroneous reports earlier this year that alleged Starck was involved in designing a new Apple product -- turns out the project in question was actually Jobs' yacht.)

What Starck reveals about co-creating with Jobs sheds some light on the late icon's iDesign process.

Starck says that in the beginning, in a move that would seem uncharacteristic, Jobs gave him "carte blanche."

[Jobs] just gave me the length and the number of guests he wanted to accommodate, and that was it. In our very first meeting we had little time to speak, so I told him, I will design it, as if it is for myself.

But that was just the beginning of the design process with Jobs. Starck goes on to say that he and Jobs would spend one day every six weeks, from 2007 until his death in 2011, going over refinements "Millimetre by millimetre. Detail by detail."

Here's where the notorious control freak in Jobs apparently kicks in. Starck had nothing but praise for his client in the interview, but he describes a process of constantly simplifying and refining the design for Venus.

We came back on the same details until they were perfect. We had many calls about parameters, the result is the perfect application of our joined philosophy.

Perhaps not ironically, that philosophy was a page pulled from Apple's playbook -- striving for simplicity with purpose. The result is something more "stark" (sorry) than the ostentatious character of other super yachts. Starck claims there is not a single "useless pillow" or other object inside Venus.

I haven't heard of any plans for an Apple iYacht, but I wouldn't be surprised if some developer out there somewhere is busy at work for the Jobs family on some apps designed specifically for Venus' future voyages.

Steve Jobs' former yacht Venus collided with another superyacht off the coast of Naples

• Venus, the yacht built for Steve Jobs , collided with another yacht off Italy's coast.
• It's unclear which yacht struck which or when exactly the crash occurred.
• With a minimalist design, Venus is one of the world's most iconic superyachts.

Venus, Steve Jobs' former superyacht — now owned by his wife, the philanthropist and investor Laurene Powell Jobs — has collided with another superyacht off of the Italian coast.

A spokesperson from Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective who spoke with a crewmember confirmed to Business Insider that Venus, the 78-meter yacht Steve Jobs commissioned, had collided with Lady Moura, a 105-meter yacht. The collision happened on July 22 off the coast of Naples, Italy.

The spokesperson said that only crew were onboard the yacht and that both boats were anchored when a sudden change of wind led to the collision.

Venus is cruising in the Ligurian Sea, while Lady Moura made its way to Mykonos on Wednesday, based on publicly available tracking data from Marine Traffic.

Videos posted on social media show the strikingly minimalist Venus and the Lady Moura coming into contact. It's not clear from the videos which superyacht struck which, though someone who said they were aboard the Lady Moura seemed to blame Venus' crew on social media, SuperYacht Times reported. The person said the damage was "only a scratch, albeit a significant one that will be costly to repair."

Others on social media said that the Venus appeared to be moored and that Lady Moura seemed to have swung into the boat. BI hasn't been able to independently verify either claim.

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The Italian Marina Militare didn't respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. The owner of the Lady Moura couldn't be reached.

No matter how little damage may have been done, insurance will probably cover it. Yacht insurance , which can cost six figures each month, is one of the largest costs incurred by yacht owners.

Venus, built by the top yacht-builder Feadship, was delivered after Jobs died in 2011 and was worth $130 million upon completion. The Apple cofounder was heavily involved in the design process alongside the French architect and decorator Philippe Starck.

"Venus comes from the philosophy of minimum," Starck said of her design. "The elegance of the minimum, approaching dematerialization."

Jobs and Starck spent four years working on her design, the designer told Vanity Fair , holding monthly meetings to discuss her specifications. She has six identical cabins, was built to maximize absolute silence, and, upon delivery, included the most up-to-date technology.

"There will never again be a boat of that quality again. Because never again will two madmen come together to accomplish such a task," Starck told the magazine. "It was not a yacht that Steve and I were constructing, we were embarked on a philosophical action, implemented according to a quasi-religious process. We formed a single brain with four lobes." August 7, 2024 — This story has been updated with a statement from a Laurene Powell Jobs spokesperson.

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Steve job's venus cost $120 million when it was built in 2012, by gerardo pons • published august 7, 2024 • updated on august 7, 2024 at 10:03 pm.

Video posted on social media shows the moment Steve Jobs' former superyacht Venus collided with another yacht in Naples, Italy.

The video, posted by Mexican telecom billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego on X, shows the moment the 257-foot-long Venus, now owned by Steve Jobs' former wife Laurene Powell Jobs, collided with Pliego's 344 foot-long Lady Moura on July 22.

"You guys won't believe this, but our yacht was hit while we were in Naples," Pliego wrote to his followers on X. "Apple founder Steve Jobs' yacht (now owned by his wife Laurene) hit us while we were anchored off Naples."

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No me lo van a creer pero nos chocaron el yate mientras estábamos en Nápoles. Les cuento ☕️… el yate de Steve Jobs fundador de Apple (ahora de su esposa Laurene), nos pegó mientras estábamos anclados frente a Nápoles. Yo quisiera saber que andaba haciendo el capitán y la… pic.twitter.com/R1XVzZFGkD — Don Ricardo Salinas Pliego (@RicardoBSalinas) August 7, 2024

Pliego added his boat only suffered a few large scratches, which "will cost a lot to repair."

"I would like to know what the (Venus) captain and crew were doing that they didn't see a yacht the size of mine in front of them."

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In a statement to Business Insider, Emerson Collective, an organization that Powell Jobs founded and is president of, said the collision happened while both boats were anchoring off Naples, adding only the crew was onboard.

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Designed by famed French architect Philippe Starck, Steve Job's Venus cost $120 million when it was built in 2012. The boat had its first voyage shortly after the Apple cofounder's death.

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Two of the world’s most famous luxury yachts owned by a pair of the richest people in the world collided in a fender-bender accident while anchored off the coast of Naples, Italy this week.

Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego's luxury yacht, Lady Moura, on July 5, 2023 .

Mexican retail and broadcasting billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego took to Instagram Wednesday to share a video of a sleek boat drifting toward his mega yacht Lady Moura as crew members blast the horn, scream and shout in a bid to get the crew’s attention.

The oncoming vessel, Salinas said, was the Venus luxury yacht famously built for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and now owned by his widow, Laurene Powell Jobs.

The video shows Venus bounce off the side of the Lady Moura without breaching the ship’s hull before it drifts away backwards.

Salinas posted there was no major damage but that his ship was left with “a big scratch that’s going to be a lot to fix.”

He then told his followers to buy Apple products through his Group Elektra retail chain to help Powell Jobs pay for the damage.

Neither billionaire owner was on board the ship at the time of the crash, according to Dagens news of Media Group Denmark.

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The yacht ordered by Apple's late founder Steve Jobs named "Venus docked at the De Vries shipyard in ... [+] the Netherlands, on Oct. 29, 2012.

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“I would like to know what the captain and crew were doing that they didn’t see a yacht the size of mine,” Salinas said on Instagram. “You see that there are no shortage of idiots in the world.”

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Construction began on Venus , Jobs' $120 million yacht , in 2009 and was completed three years later. The boat was designed by French industrial designer and architect Philippe Starck and was created to look like an Apple product with sleek lines and 15 tons of glass walls. Jobs himself never boarded the 78.2-meter vessel—he died before it was completed. Lady Moura has been renowned as one of the world’s most lavish yachts since it was launched in 1990. The vessel is almost 105 meters long and can accommodate 27 guests and 72 crew members.

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Powell Jobs was ranked as the 126th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $14.4 billion as of Thursday. She inherited much of her fortune from her late husband, Jobs, who died in 2011. She is the founder of two philanthropy organizations, the Emerson Collective and the Waverley Street Foundation, and has committed to giving billions of dollars to charitable organizations. Salinas is the heir to the publicly-traded Grupo Elektra, which was founded by his grandfather in the 1950s. He now runs the financial and retail corporation and TV Azteca, the No. 2 Mexican TV broadcaster. As of Thursday, he was ranked as the 221st richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $10 billion.

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Jobs’s Boat and Mexican Billionaire’s Yacht Get Into Fender Bender (Bloomberg)

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Steve Jobs compraba el mismo coche cada seis meses: un Mercedes-Benz SL-Class, aunque lo único que le importaba era su matrícula

Uno de los grandes misterios que siempre ha envuelto a Steve Jobs era esa matrícula en blanco con la que siempre circulaba y que parecía impune a cualquier tipo de multa.

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La muerte de Steve Jobs , en octubre de 2011, le convirtió en un mito. Cofundador de Apple y creador del primer ordenador, es y será una de las personas más influyentes dentro de la industria tecnológica. Sin embargo, como todo multimillonario, siempre hay pequeñas excentricidades que le hacen especial.

Unas de las grandes interrogantes durante la vida de Steve Jobs ha sido esa costumbre de cambiar de vehículo cada seis meses y lo que aún extrañaba más, nunca llevaba matrícula en sus coches. 

Sabemos que Steve Jobs era rico, así que puede cambiar de vehículo cada seis meses . Pero cuando hablamos de tener el mismo Mercedes-Benz SL 55 AMG nuevo dos veces al año, ahí ya resulta bastante extraño.

Steve Jobs también era famoso por su afición a aparcar en el hueco para minusválidos del aparcamiento (tema aparte) pero esa matrícula en blanco se llevaba todos los titulares. ¿Cómo lo hacía? ¿Pagaba la multa cada vez que le paraban? ¿Le concedió el gobierno de California un permiso especial para darse ese capricho? 

Esta es la razón por la que Steve Jobs cambiaba de coche cada 6 meses y nunca llevaba matrícula

Pues bien, la respuesta es más sencilla de lo que parece. La razón de esto es que en California hay una ley que permite circular con un coche nuevo sin matricular los primeros seis meses desde su fecha de alta. 

Así que Steve Jobs alquilaba un coche nuevo sin matrícula y, a los seis meses, cuando por ley tenía que matricularlo, lo cambiaba por otro nuevo, y el ciclo volvía a empezar. 

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"Steve (o alguien cercano a él) descubrió una laguna en las leyes de vehículos de California.  Cualquiera que tuviera un coche nuevo disponía de un máximo de seis meses para colocar en él la matrícula emitida" , se explica en una antigua entrevista de ITWire.

Sabiendo esto, Jobs llegó a un acuerdo con la empresa de leasing: siempre cambiaría de coche durante el sexto mes de alquiler, cambiando un Mercedes SL55 AMG plateado por otro idéntico.  En ningún momento estaría en un coche con seis meses de antigüedad, por lo que no había obligación legal de colocar las matrículas.

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En cuanto a la verdadera razón por la que no llevar matrícula, nadie lo sabe. Tal vez, una de las razones principales es que sólo quería proteger su intimidad, o quizá se deba a su naturaleza rebelde. 

En la biografía del cofundador de Apple , Walter Isaacson señala que Jobs quería una matrícula sin número para evitar que le siguieran la pista, pero cuando se le ha preguntado en las entrevistas posteriores a la publicación del libro sobre su biografía , el autor no ha aclarado esta afirmación, así que seguirá siendo todo un misterio.

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"Siempre estaré agradecida". Una empleada que fue despedida cinco veces por Steve Jobs asegura que le ayudó en su carácter

Sus contactos con la prensa le permitió poder salvar su empleo al "sorprender" a jobs.

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Ser despedido no es agradable para nadie. Es una situación en la que sin duda se puede generar un gran estrés y unos sentimientos encontrados realmente fuertes. Pero también puede tener un lado bueno, y es que el despido te ayude finalmente a evolucionar como persona. Y este ha sido el caso de Andrea 'Andy' Cunningham, que agradece públicamente a Steve Jobs por despedirla hasta cinco veces.

Andrea es una experta en marketing que formó parte del equipo de lanzamiento del Macintosh en 1984. Además, también ha fundado su propia empresa para poder ayudar en el campo de la comunicación de las grandes empresas de Silicon Valley. Pero sin duda en su corazón guarda un gran rincón para Apple y cómo transformó por completo su personalidad.

Unos cinco despidos que no le dejaron con mal sabor de boca

Ni una, ni dos, ni tres. Cinco fueron las veces que Steve Jobs despidió a esta empleada de Apple tal y como relata de la siguiente manera:

" Creo que Steve Jobs me despidió unas 5 veces . Soy Andy Cunningham y dirijo una empresa de consultoría de marketing llamada Cunningham Collective y acabo de escribir un libro sobre posicionamiento, que es una gran práctica en el campo del marketing. Se titula Get to Aha!"

En una entrevista pública relata como en un momento fue llamada al despacho del mismísimo Steve Jobs mientras trabajaba en Macintosh. Al igual que nos pasaría a cualquiera, tenía miedo a que fuera despedida. Y no se equivocó. La responsable económica le informó que su trabajo era horrible y se iba fuera de la compañía. Incluso que se iba a ir sin recibir los 30.000 euros de deuda pendiente que tenían aún.

A partir de ahí comenzó a pensar cómo cobrar el dinero que le debía Apple. Sus amigos le aconsejaban llamar la atención de Steve Jobs con "algo que le interese". Aunque Andrea no veía nada relevante en su vida que llamara la atencion de Jobs. Salvo una cosa: " tu relación con la prensa". De esta manera la historia siguió de la siguiente manera:

“Así que volví y me reuní con Steve porque era amiga de su directora financiera, ella me consiguió una reunión. Entré allí a la reunión, que él aceptó, lo cual fue increíble, y le dije: "Steve me debes 35.000 dólares. Necesito ese dinero. Tengo una empresa nueva. Necesito pagar las nóminas y quiero que me des un cheque por lo que me debes". Y él dijo: "No voy a hacer eso." Y le dije: "Tienes que hacerlo", y él dijo: "¿Por qué?".

Y le dije: "Bueno, para que lo sepas, Steve, recibo unas 30 o 40 llamadas a la semana de la prensa de negocios con los que hemos hecho lazos en los últimos dos años preguntándome qué clase de tipo eres para trabajar y de momento les digo cosas muy agradables." Me hizo un cheque inmediatamente y me volvió a contratar.”

Un trato que se asemejaba bastante a una amenaza o un chantaje de no informar a la prensa de algo que pudiera afectar a la imagen de la compañía. A partir de ese momento fueron algunos los intentos de despido extra a los que se enfrentó, aunque al final perduro en el tiempo y sobre todo muestra su agradecimiento. Pero sin quitar que a otras personas Jobs las destruyó con sus exigencias.

Lanzaba cosas a la gente, nada pesado, pero tiraba fajos de papel a la gente, les insultaba, criticaba su ropa. Hizo todas esas cosas. Lo que hizo a ciertas personas fue obligarnos a que nos esforzásemos aún más y tratásemos de ser aún mejores, pero a algunas las destruyó . Afortunadamente para mí, fui de las primeras y le estoy eternamente agradecida por la experiencia, porque ahora soy mucho mejor en lo que hago de lo que habría sido sin él.

De esta manera, volvemos a ver como Steve Jobs era un jefe realmente exigente que buscaba la excelencia y compromiso de toda su plantilla. A algunos les terminó superando, pero aquí vemos algo totalmente diferente, ya que Jobs con sus formas terminó forjando un carácter muy diferente.

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"Siempre estaré agradecida". Steve Jobs despidió a una empleada hasta cinco veces y asegura que eso le ayudó a forjar su carácter

Andrea "andy" cunningham fue publicista de apple durante diez años, conocía los puntos fuertes y flacos de steve jobs, y le salvó el tipo en más de una ocasión.

Andrea 'Andy' Cunningham es una experta en marketing y en todo lo relacionado con el mercado que formó parte del lanzamiento del Macintosh en 1984 . Además, fundó Cunningham Communication, una empresa dedicada a ayudar a las grandes compañías de Silicon Valley con sus relaciones públicas. Durante años ha concedido entrevistas y ha meditado sobre la identidad de Apple como empresa, qué la hacía tan especial y cómo Tim Cook ha transformado por completo lo que ella amaba.

A día de hoy sigue dedicada a tiempo completo a ello, pero en su momento trabajó directamente con Steve Jobs. Mano a mano . Ello dio lugar a una situación muy particular en la que Jobs la despidió, pero gracias a su empeño consiguió ser readmitida. Así hasta cinco veces, según admite en una entrevista de hace unos años.

Jobs era capaz de sacar lo mejor de cada uno. Y lo peor

Tal y como refleja en su entrevista:

" Creo que Steve Jobs me despidió unas 5 veces . Soy Andy Cunningham y dirijo una empresa de consultoría de marketing llamada Cunningham Collective y acabo de escribir un libro sobre posicionamiento, que es una gran práctica en el campo del marketing. Se titula Get to Aha! "

La empresaria explica que, en un momento dado, la llamaron a la oficina de Steve Jobs cuando trabajaba en el Macintosh. Tenía miedo de que la despidiesen, y tristemente así fue. Acabó en una sala de conferencias con la directora de finanzas de Apple. Le dijo que su trabajo era horroroso y que cortarían su contrato de trabajo . Cunningham le recordó que aún tenían una deuda con ella de 30.000 euros, pero esta dijo que no tenía pensado pagar, que su labor era muy mala, y que no se los merecía.

Andy llamó a un colega para pedir consejo. Este le dijo que: "si quieres que te pague Steve Jobs vas a tener que tener algo que le interese". "No tengo nada que le interese a Steve Jobs", dijo inmediatamente Andrea. Sin embargo, Regis McKenna, su amigo, le recordó que sí: " tu relación con la prensa ".

“Así que volví y me reuní con Steve porque era amiga de su directora financiera, ella me consiguió una reunión. Entré allí a la reunión, que él aceptó, lo cual fue increíble, y le dije: "Steve me debes 35.000 dólares. Necesito ese dinero. Tengo una empresa nueva. Necesito pagar las nóminas y quiero que me des un cheque por lo que me debes". Y él dijo: "No voy a hacer eso." Y le dije: "Tienes que hacerlo", y él dijo: "¿Por qué?".

Y le dije: "Bueno, para que lo sepas, Steve, recibo unas 30 o 40 llamadas a la semana de la prensa de negocios con los que hemos hecho lazos en los últimos dos años preguntándome qué clase de tipo eres para trabajar y de momento les digo cosas muy agradables. " Me hizo un cheque inmediatamente y me volvió a contratar.”

Andrea Cunningham llegó a conocer a Jobs como nadie

A partir de ese momento, Jobs estuvo tentada de despedirla en alguna que otra ocasión , pero finalmente no lo hizo. Enlazamos a una anécdota muy reveladora que resumen bastante bien aquellos días. Y sería razonable pensar que Cunningham le guardaría algún tipo de rencor, pero no. Nada más lejos de la realidad. De hecho, le está tremendamente agradecida.

Lanzaba cosas a la gente, nada pesado, pero tiraba fajos de papel a la gente, les insultaba, criticaba su ropa. Hizo todas esas cosas. Lo que hizo a ciertas personas fue obligarnos a que nos esforzásemos aún más y tratásemos de ser aún mejores, pero a algunas las destruyó . Afortunadamente para mí, fui de las primeras y le estoy eternamente agradecida por la experiencia, porque ahora soy mucho mejor en lo que hago de lo que habría sido sin él.

Está claro que Jobs era exigente. Uno no monta la empresa más grande de todos los tiempos sin ser capaz de sacar lo mejor de cada una de las personas que hay a su alrededor. Es cierto que a algunas les superó, pero consiguió que muchos alcanzasen metas que antes solo eran sueños lejanos a base de esfuerzo y trabajo . Había que sudarlo, por supuesto, pero si te ponías en sus manos, acabarías siendo una versión de ti mismo que no habías sido capaz ni de imaginar. Eso es un líder.

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Andy Cunningham es experta en marketing, autora del libro sobre posicionamiento ‘Get to Aha’ y directora de Cunningham Communication, la empresa que fundó y que se dedica a ayudar a las grandes compañías de Silicon Valley en sus relaciones públicas. Su curriculum, así, es lo suficientemente interesante como para querer saber más sobre ella y su trayectoria, y es aquí donde surge un dato de lo más sorprendente sobre su historia: fue despedida 5 veces por Steve Jobs . 

La propia Cunningham lo reveló en una entrevista para Business Insider: “Creo que Steve Jobs me despidió sobre unas 5 veces. La primera vez fue probablemente la más traumática, porque pensé que iba a ser la última vez que trabajaría con él y me llamó a su despacho, o a una sala de conferencias debería decir, y su director financiero estaba sentado allí y me miró y me dijo: “Voy a cortar mi contrato contigo. Creo que el trabajo que estás haciendo es terrible y vamos a terminar ahora mismo, así que ya está, estás despedida””.

Andy asegura que estuvo a punto de llorar y que lo peor no era solo el despido, sino que le debían 35.000 dólares  y le habían comunicado que no se lo iban a pagar porque su trabajo “no valía la pena”. Ante una respuesta así, se quedó totalmente desconcertada, por lo que llamó a su mentor, Regis McKenna, que le dio el consejo que lo cambiaría todo: “Si quieres que Steve Jobs te pague, vas a tener que tener algo que le interese” ( muy de la filosofía del propio Jobs ). 

El poder de Cunningham para interesar a Steve Jobs 

Al principio, tras escuchar el consejo de Regis, Cunningham no sabía a lo que se refería: “Yo no tengo nada que interese a Steve Jobs, lo sabes”. A lo que este le contestó: “No, lo tienes [...]. Tus relaciones con la prensa ”. Y ahí comprendió. Por eso volvió y pidió reunirse con Jobs, quien la recibió:

“Steve me debes 35.000 dólares. Necesito ese dinero. Tengo una empresa y necesito pagar las nóminas. Quiero que me des un cheque por lo que me debes”. Pero el fundador de Apple respondió tajante: “No voy a hacer eso”. “Tienes que hacerlo”, espetó Andy, a lo que Jobs contestó, “¿Por qué?”. “Para que lo sepas, recibo unas 30 o 40 llamadas a la semana de la prensa de negocios con la que hemos hecho relaciones en los últimos dos años, preguntándome qué clase de tipo eres para trabajar y actualmente les digo cosas muy agradables ”, le espetó Andy valientemente. 

Y consiguió lo que quería, porque le dio un cheque inmediatamente y la volvió a contratar. Tras contar esta anécdota, Cunningham también explica cómo era trabajar con Steve Jobs: “Se enfadaba con todos los que trabajaban con él. Era muy impaciente. Tenía una visión de lo que se suponía que tenías que hacer y si no lo hacías lo bastante rápido o lo bastante bien, se enfadaba ”, lo que contrasta con sus conocidas frases motivacionales .

Además, asegura que “ lanzaba cosas a la gente , nada pesado, pero lanzaba fajos de papel, les maldecía, criticaba su ropa ( aunque él siempre vestía la misma ). Hizo todas esas cosas”. Esto, cree que hizo que algunas personas se esforzaran “aún más” y “tratáramos de ser mejores, pero a algunas las destruyó”. No fue su caso, a pesar de los cinco despidos: “Afortunadamente para mí, fui de los primeros y le estaré eternamente agradecida por la experiencia, porque ahora soy mucho mejor en lo que hago de lo que habría sido sin él ”. 

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Steve Jobs despidió a esta empleada cinco veces y ella asegura que eso la ayudó a ser mejor trabajadora: "Le estoy eternamente agradecida"

Andy cunningham asegura que gracias a él, aprendió más que en cualquier universidad.

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Andy Cunningham dirige una empresa de consultoría de marketing llamada Cunningham Collective . Ha escrito además un libro sobre posicionamiento llamado Get to Aha! , pero lo más sorprendente de su historia no es su éxito profesional, sino que Steve Jobs la despidió hasta en cinco ocasiones.

Cunningham es ahora experta en marketing y formó parte del lanzamiento del Macintosh en 1984. Asegura que cuando trabajaba como publicista para Steve Jobs, la despidió cinco veces, pero gracias a él aprendió más que en cualquier universidad . ¿El motivo? La resiliencia y el impulso que esos aparentes fracasos le dieron en su carrera.

Steve Jobs como jefe: ¿genio o tirano?

Steve Jobs fue muchas cosas, empezando por fundador del gigante tecnológico Apple. Pero además de por sus productos, sus trucos de productividad y su particular manera de tratar a sus empleados.

La propia Cunningham ha afirmado que “lanzaba cosas a la gente, nada pesado, pero tiraba fajos de papel a la gente, les insultaba, criticaba su ropa. La forma de tratarla de Jobs, por la que ella asegura que le estará eternamente agradecida, fue el motivo de su éxito, al menos tal y como cuenta, porque “nos obligó a que nos esforzásemos más y tratásemos de ser aún mejores”. Eso sí, el relato de Andy no es el de todos porque ese trato, que parece más bossing que otra cosa, destruyó a muchos por el camino.

"Steve se llevaba mal con todo el mundo con el que trabajaba", afirma Cunningham, pero a pesar de eso, ella sigue agradecida por la presión sin la que no hubiera conseguido lo que tiene ahora. Al menos en su opinión, aunque yo prefiero la salud mental y el bienestar antes que el éxito profesional a esa escala.

Cómo Andy Cunningham consiguió volver a trabajar con Steve Jobs

Además de despedirla, Jobs se negaba a pagarle los 35.000 dólares que le debía, alegando que su trabajo era horroroso y que no iba a pagarla porque “no se los merecía”, tal y como afirmó en una entrevista la propia Andy Cunningham. Esa primera vez que la despidió “fue la más traumática porque pensé que sería la última vez que iba a trabajar con él”.

Pero lo que Jobs no sabía, es que Cunningham tenía un as en la manga: su relación con la prensa. Su testimonio es en esta parte divertido, la verdad, porque relata la conversación que tuvo con Jobs y que terminó con un cheque en su mano y la readmisión en su puesto.

“Volví y me reuní con Steve porque era amiga de su directora financiera. Entré a la reunión y le dije: "Steve me debes 35.000 dólares. Necesito ese dinero. Tengo una empresa nueva. Necesito pagar las nóminas y quiero que me des un cheque por lo que me debes". Y él dijo: "No voy a hacer eso." Y le dije: "Tienes que hacerlo", y él dijo: "¿Por qué?".Y le dije: "Bueno, para que lo sepas recibo unas 30 o 40 llamadas a la semana de la prensa de negocios con los que hemos hecho lazos en los últimos dos años preguntándome qué clase de tipo eres para trabajar, y de momento les digo cosas muy agradables." Me hizo un cheque inmediatamente y me volvió a contratar.”

Miedo quizás, o que en ese momento vio la determinación en una joven publicista que ahora es una experta en marketing. Que sea o no gracias a los gritos y desplantes de Steve Jobs, es otro debate.

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