steve jobs top 100 email

MEMO: Steve Jobs agenda for a secret meeting

Tl;dr: Steve Jobs’ agenda for a secret Apple meeting which was leaked during a lawsuit with Samsung. In October 2010, Steve Jobs sent an email to Phil Schiller (a member of the company’s executive team since Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997) with the subject line “Top 100 – A.” It was an itinerary for a top-secret meeting called …

stephen elop burning platform memo

MEMO: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s Burning Platform

Tl;dr: Stephen Elop’s Burning Platform memo on Nokia on the need to decide how to either build, catalyse or join an ecosystem. Nokia once owned the mobile market. It’s clear that they lost out. But back in 2011 Nokia CEO Stephen Elop had the balls to say they were in trouble. In February 2011, we wrote the famous “Burning Platform” …

Original Sun Microsystems business plan by Vinod Khosla

Original Sun Microsystems business plan by Vinod Khosla

TL;DR: The Sun Microsystems business plan made by Vinod Khosla. I just stumbled upon an interesting startup artifact. The original business plan for Sun Microsystems by Vinod Khosla! It’s surprisingly short and to the point. It cracks me up to see some of the financial plans in the appendix are done in hand! History of Sun Microsystems Vinod grew up …