Steve Job's Email Address
 

What is it????

I have often pondered this myself. At one of the more recent Mac World expos, he demoed Mail 2.0 and his email address on the screen was steve@mac.com. However, I seriously doubt that Steve Jobs would just go and give his e-mail address out to the public. Think about it. Your the CEO and President of a major computer and software maker. Millions of people love your products. Even more hate them with a passion. Would you really want to give away your email address?

If he gave it out, he would get thousands, if not millions of emails per day.

hmmm...

Steve Job's Resume

Alot of people say steve@mac.com is fake. That's all I know. Does anyone have anything else?

Thanks

Mateusz

Well, I do remember reading that Bill Gates gets approx. 4,000,000 emails per day. That is what I call Karma. Apparantly he has quite a staff just to sort through it all.

If I knew Steve’s email address, I would respectfully keep it to myself.

;)

Well if he told me and only me, and said keep it private, of course I would keep it private as well.

My company is a global GIS software giant. Our owner/president does not even have a computer, let alone an email address.

I'm young, so please, what is GIS?

It's 4,000,000 per year.
The "per day" was what Steve Ballmer had originally said but he later admitted that he had misspoke. See: http://mikesejournal.com/archives/003089.php

Fan mail?
 

Thanks for the correction, Hayne! I didn’t know that.

But one question remains: Is that fan mail, complaints, or just virus-laden email due to a yet-to-be-patched Windows security loophole? :p

– ArcticStones

I've been to this site before, and for someone who is a CEO of 2 major companies and the rival to Bill Gates, his homepage sure isn't too impressive. It's kinda weird. I mean... "The Dog Wash"? (I do realize that this is from the old iMovie 2 tutorial, but still.) Ah well.

I have always thought that his email address was indeed steve@mac.com though. Seemed simple and cool, just like Apple. :)

Resumes and fanatics
 

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Hmm, somehow I don’t think a resume necessarily captures the essence of a leader’s qualifications.

Was it George Lucas or Steven Spielberg who was voted something like “least likely to succeed” in his high school class?

I studied Art at college. The drawings and paintings that Paul Cezanne produced in his youth, while he was studying, were atrocious! But he had a vision and invested incredible energy to realize that vision. In some respect you could call him a fanatic.
Today art historians agree that half a dozen or so schools/styles of modern art can be traced back directly to the efforts of Cezanne. I once sat for more than an hour in front of one of his watercolours in the National Gallery in Oslo, being immensely rewarded as I discovered more and more in that painting’s depths. A masterpiece!

Stanley Kubrick, too, was surely a fanatic. It is said that he only made one movie in each genre – but he made the best one. “The Shining”, “Dr Strangelove”, “Full Metal Jacket”, “A Clockwork Orange”, “Lolita”, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “Eyes Wide Shut” – and “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” (completed, interestingly, by Steven Spielberg).

And I’m sure that Steve Jobs as well as Steve Ballmer could be considered excessively devoted, if not fanatic. (I refer here to another thread by Pantherman.) We can all laugh at Ballmer’s theatrics, but I honestly believe they are heartfelt – and neither insane nor unbalanced. I think that intensity is precisely what their respective companies and vision need.

Speaking of resumes and art, perhaps there are few more impressive examples than JMW Turner. Granted, he had a fine academic background and gained high regard for that. But he insisted on sticking to his vision, even though scarcely an art critic besides John Ruskin gave him recognition for his more radical efforts – where the subject matter almost dissolves in shimmering colour. And yet he continued. That took true courage! (or a fanatic) Granted, Turner was rich enough to pursue his endeavour, and he spent his last few years in an asylum, but his legacy is that he is considered “the painter of light”.

I do not for a moment believe that Steve Jobs would have possessed his famous “reality warping field” (there is a more elegant term) if he had lacked those personal quirks that we are discussing here. From the business world I have never seen a better public speaker. (That includes Steve Ballmer, mind you! :D )

I work as a copywriter in Norway. I fail to tell most of my clients that I only have a 4th grade education in this country. Fortunately, they don’t ask for a detailed resume. ;)

Well, those are my thoughts …
(a bit wordier than I first intended. My apologies!)


With best regards,
ArcticStones

The correct term is Reality Distortion Field. RDF for short.

I actucally think there is something to that. Could we have taken the news of the Intel switch so well from anyone else? :rolleyes:

It's a lot easier for people to take if you call it charisma or presence. And I'd say there is something to it. I've seen Jobs live on stage several times over the years and the charisma comes across, just like it does for some musicians I have seen. It may be fading a bit today but in his prime he had that special stage presence that I've seen in very few performers of any kind.

It's easy to forget, though, that people like that are human beings and they can be a lot different in a personal situation or with their family. They are not always "on" for 24 hours a day. Which is why I think this thread is a bit over the top. The only thing discovering the email address or phone number of any well known person does is make it harder for that person to live a normal life when they are away from the cameras or the spotlight or whatever. I don't think there is any malicious intent by anyone participating in this thread but understand the consequences if the real email address was published here. There would be no expression of gratitude coming from Apple or Mr. Jobs, that's for sure.

You probably use it every day. GIS = "Geographic Information System". Just think Google Maps, MapQuest etc. But it goes far deeper than that.

http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html

IMO the entire resume was just for harmless publicity. It was put up when .Mac launched, and doesn't go into detail about anything not already public. The fact that he would have a resume is comical in itself. That's like Warren Buffett filling out a credit application.

Notice the skills section "that vision thing". The entire site is tounge in cheek. If Steve, or anyone that works for him, was bold enough to post his actual contact information, that on them. I know for a fact that Jobs has the best email filter available to man kind...a secretary. And FWIW, Pixar addresses are totally bogus. I know of some that are way off the wall, and have nothing to do with the person's actual name.

We could just sort out this by someone phoning the number on his resume, and emailing him as well.

My advice would be to paste the email into the OS X feedback and flag its for steve, as well as sending it to steve@mac.com, sj@mac.com, stevej@mac.com, etc

Surely you jest? I thought this whole thread was meant as light-hearted amusement.

:cool:

real email
 

Interestingly, billgates@microsoft.com is BG's real email address. From what I read in a somewhat recent Pogue article, he gets some 6 million emails a day - only a handful is real.

How does he cope with the spam? He has a crew of 10-20 that have one job - make sure his email is spam-free. Bizarre!

I was trying to look for the article that talked about this, but couldn't find it - anyone remember it?

Jacques

Please read the full thread before responding.
In particular, see post #9 above.

nahhhh...... he's to cheap to have a .mac account!

you can get him at stevejobs123@hotmail.com

LOL.... a visionary on a budget. I think he started out like that. I bet Steve's got a goofy email addy not even relating to his work.. sort like jesuschristcomplex@yahoo.com or something like that.

Saying someone has a "Jesus Christ complex" does not amuse me, and slightly offends me.

Hayne - yah, I see that. Whoops!

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On second thought, it would be an @apple.com address wouldn't it? On that $1 a year salary, how could he afford the yearly .Mac account?!

:/

Jacques

I think I owe an apology here. I kinda flew of the handle on that one. Sorry. :o

Nice going with the apology, pantherman. I was going to PM you to encourage it, but that wasn't necessary. :)

I kept wondering yesterday "Did I fly of the handle with that response I posted?"

Oops, I should have addressed my post to tomea; your quoting yourself threw me off, there. I can understand you finding his reference in poor taste.

I do think there was a little poor taste, but I don't I think I should I have said it like that.