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A 16 z chen sits down with ken cosienda, a long time sofwhere engineer and designer at apple. They discussed ken's unconventional path from freelands photographer to sofware engineer at apple. What was it like to build and demo new things for steef jobs? How did apple develop the sofware components of iconic hardware products like iphone, ipat and more. And what can we learn from these stories? In this wide ranging conversation from april 20 nineteenth.

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.