Tech?s CEO Negate Themselves
Technology is absolutely the fastest growing industry of our time. It can not be denied that success of each technology brand is closely associated with the name of CEO. However, there are still moments that those famous people contradict themselves.
Steve Jobs – Apple CEO
Apple iPhone 4, which was launched on 24 June 2010, lost wave in July 2010. Apple CEO Steve Jobs blamed for users by saying “Do you hold your iPhone 4 the wrong way?” However, it seems he has second thought for the problem. He stated in the same month, “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs
Carol Bartz – Yahoo CEO
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz once said in July, “Search will continue to be an integral part of the Yahoo user experience, and we will continue to integrate search throughout all our properties.” A few months later, Carol Bartz expresses, “Search isn’t what we’re after … I don’t wake up in the morning and say ‘Gosh, what am I going to search?”
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz
Steve Ballmer – Microsoft CEO
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was so confident to predict, “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.” It takes him more than three years to realize that, “We were ahead of this game and now we find ourselves number five in the market … We missed a whole cycle.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
Eric Schmidt – Google CEO
In September 2009, Eric Schmidt stated “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”. However, on July 2010, it is he who says “The reason that you should trust us is that if we were to violate that trust people would move immediately to someone else.”
Eric Schmidt
Larry Ellison – Oracle CEO
During the Oracle OpenWorld keynote on December 2010, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison expresses, “It’s (cloud computing) a comprehensive development and execution environment that can run virtually all your applications”. Exactly two months earlier, he wondered, “What the hell is cloud computing?”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
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