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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

The one email I ever got from Steve Jobs, and it said “Great idea, thank you.”

A few colleagues had somehow acquired cooler email aliases - single letter things, or their first name, or a nickname or an easier to spell version, or whatever. So late one Friday night, two weeks into the job, I figured, naively, what the heck, nobody else seems to want it, so I filled in the form asking for steve@next.com to be forwarded to me, shayman@next.com. “We should merge back with Apple!” “How about a music player that fit in your pocket?” “We should build something with a touch screen.” no, nothing quite that cool, but still, it’s one of my favourite messages.

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