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Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

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  1. jasongi · · focus · HN ↗
    The part of "founder-led" companies nobody talks about. For every groundbreaking tech project, there's 100 other people sleeping in conference rooms working on some rich guy's latest brain-fart that everyone knows will never work.
    1. qingcharles · · focus · HN ↗
      Some of those rich guy brain farts turned out to be iPod and iPhone.
      1. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
        Wasn't apple near bankruptcy when they made those? Only saved by a Google-style payment from Microsoft to ensure Microsoft wasn't legally a monopoly?
        1. ErneX · · focus · HN ↗
          No those came later, it was the colored translucent iMacs that got them back in track, then the iPod.
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