Then it featured a list of one-time meteors that fell to Earth: MySpace, Netscape, Palm, Yahoo.ĭropbox’s ascent has been just as stunning. Houston’s reaction was less cocky: “Oh, s-t.” The next day he shot a missive to his staff: “We have one of the fastest-growing companies in the world,” it began. Instead, Jobs went dark on the subject, resurfacing only this June, at his final keynote speech, where he unveiled iCloud, and specifically knocked Dropbox as a half-attempt to solve the Internet’s messiest dilemma: How do you get all your files, from all your devices, into one place? “Why let the enemy get a taste?” he now shrugs cockily. When Jobs later followed up with a suggestion to meet at Dropbox’s San Francisco office, Houston proposed that they instead meet in Silicon Valley. Courteously, Jobs spent the next half hour waxing on over tea about his return to Apple, and why not to trust investors, as the duo-or more accurately, Houston, who plays Penn to Ferdowsi’s mute Teller-peppered him with questions.
“He said we were a feature, not a product,” says Houston. Over the years, I’ve built a fulfilling and prosperous career by standing strong on my feminist principles, and now I get to invest directly in the talents and futures of other womxn, without my questions hanging in the air, unanswered.Jobs smiled warmly as he told them he was going after their market. I left a successful role at one company and took a job that paid me a dollar and change more per hour because I knew how long it would take me to close that gap otherwise. By not dignifying my question, he gave me the answer I needed: In order to grow, I would have to move on.įrom that day forward, I have made equality a topic of conversation and a criterion for job evaluation as I navigate my career. My boss, who was caught totally off guard, told me it was unprofessional to ask, let alone know, how much my colleague made. Completely agitated by this blatant inequality, I confronted our store manager on the sales floor. I discovered that one of my male colleagues at my retail job-a guy who had less experience in our field-was paid at a higher rate than I was. I was fresh out of college when I had my first real feminist moment at work.
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