Jony Ive shares Steve Jobs' lesson on focus after selling AI startup to OpenAI for $6.4B
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Nicolas Vega
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Jony Ive, the industrial designer behind the iPhone, iPad, and MacBook who worked closely with Steve Jobs for over a decade, shares a key lesson he learned from Jobs: the power of true focus. Ive, whose AI devices startup io was recently sold to OpenAI for $6.4 billion, said Jobs was "the most remarkably focused person" he'd ever met and that achieving great things requires genuine focus—a principle he says "shocks" him how few people actually apply.
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bskyJony Ive shares Steve Jobs' lesson on focus after selling AI startup to OpenAI for $6.4Bcnb.cxKey quotes
· 3 pulledYou can achieve so much when you truly focus
the most remarkably focused person I've ever met in my life
it still shocks me how few people practice this
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