One painful meeting with Steve Jobs
Even outside of the whole wider decades-long &quot;Jobs: Sinner or Saint&quot; discussion, it&#x27;s interesting to see from this one incident just what kind of things don&#x27;t even register as questionable in certain &quot;dog eat dog&quot; business circles. Both the OP and the replies not only pay little attention to the fact Jobs called OP a liar in a very aggressive way simply for using the almost intrinsically abstract English language in a subjective way (&quot;I know&quot; vs &quot;I think&quot;), they seem to almost think Jobs should be thanked for giving OP a character building experience. He could even have been blunt without sugar coating it: &quot;I admire your conviction, but you won&#x27;t [&quot;I don&#x27;t think you will&quot;? lol] be able to make those targets and so we can&#x27;t go ahead. Best of luck.&quot; To then go on to steal the idea anyway? That&#x27;s just Grade A Hole.<p>I understand large companies dealing with large amounts of money need to be ruthless, but I&#x27;ve always hated this kind of attitude (in general, not just Jobs)<p>edit: to be clear I&#x27;m not saying OP didn&#x27;t pull the figures out of his arse, just that it quite clearly wasn&#x27;t an attempt to be deceptive based on the language he used around it