"i'm eavesdropping on steve o his phone call, yas," says co-host. "He didn't want a lot of words... All he hwanted to know was what was next? And so what happened as he hung up the phone, he turned towards me?" 'It's just just incredible to see, what what does steve do when he evaluates product?' she asks. "'I don't think i've ever seen anything like it' - Steve Jobs is not impressed with her answer."
In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection.
They discuss Ken’s unconventional path from freelance photographer to software engineer at Apple, his work on many core products from Safari web browser to iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch and features like Autocorrect, what it was like to demo new products for Steve Jobs, and more.