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Steve Jobs was a genius, but he knew his limits. "He was never a guy who tried to make believe he had expertise in something," said Barry Schuler, now a partner at venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. That was clear to Schuler when he got a call from Jobs in early 1997 to come over to his old offices at NeXT Software in Redwood City, Calif. Jobs, at that point, hadn't yet agreed to run Apple on a permanent basis.
"What's this Internet thing?" Schuler recalled Jobs asking. "I don't get it. What are people doing on it? What do they like about it?"
Schuler, who was AOL's president of creative development at the time, remembered Jobs asking if the excitement was about reading magazines online.
"I don't get why anyone would want to read a magazine on a computer screen," he said. "That's a terrible experience."
(Scott Forstall, Adam Satariano, Peter Burrows and Brad Stone, 12 Oct 2011)