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A resurfaced clip of Steve Jobs talking about hiring managers has resurfaced online and Elon Musk is all for it.
The video from back in 1985 shows the late Apple CEO reflecting on his experience with hiring professional managers when Apple was growing into a major company.
He found that the best managers were those who didn't necessarily want to be managers.
Absolutely true https://t.co/INAS9u1RNs
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 4, 2024
"It didn't work at all," Jobs said in the interview.
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"Most of them were bozos. They knew how to manage, but they didn't know how to do anything."
He added: "And so if you're a great person, why do you wanna work for somebody you can't learn anything from?"
Jobs said that the people who are really great at their jobs make the best managers rather than those who aspire to manage.
"They're the great individual contributors who never ever want to be a manager but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them," he said.
The video was recently shared on X (formerly Twitter) by Mario Nawfal and has accumulated 36 million views within a few days.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk praised the advice and reposted it from his X profile with the caption: "Absolutely true."
Other X users agree with Elon and are commenting things like 'facts' and 'truth.'
One user wrote: "10000% realizing this in real time right now".
Another posted: "Love the way he used to articulate things".
Jobs co-founded Apple alongside Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976 before passing away from pancreatic cancer in 2011. The American businessman and investor would have turned 69 on February 24.
Many other clips of Jobs' wisdom and popping up over social media.
In another resurfaced interview from 1994, Jobs talked about the importance of asking for help and learning from failure. He spoke about the difference between people making their dreams come true and those who don't.
Recalling his own experience, he shared how, at just 12 years old, he cold-called HP co-founder Bill Hewlett to ask for leftover electronic parts and got them.
Elsewhere in tech news, Musk has been denied his $56 billion compensation package from Tesla that would make him the highest-earning executive ever.
Being the richest man alive today, a package like this only makes the wealthiest man wealthier. But a Delaware judge has blocked the Tesla vote again, despite the CEO receiving the package in 2018 at a time when Tesla was struggling.
