How to Take Over the World Podcast Transcripts
Ben Wilson · 159 episodes with transcripts
Anyone who has achieved greatness has, in part, patterned themselves after those who came before. Napoleon learned from Charlemagne, Charlemagne learned from Caesar, and Caesar learned from Alexander the Great. This podcast analyzes the lives of some of the greatest men and women to ever live.
Spoken has transcripts of 159 How to Take Over the World episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from July 15, 2026.
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Steve Jobs in Exile
July 15, 2026
Ben Wilson (0:00)
One of my favorite quotes on the question of weaknesses comes from Steve Jobs. It can be found in the book Make Something Wonderful, and a journalist asks him, what do you think your weaknesses are when it comes to management? And Steve responds, I don't know. People are package deals. You take the good with the…
Okay, did you catch what he did? A journalist asks him his weaknesses and he basically says, well, I don't know, we're package deals. Strengths and weaknesses are the same thing, but here are some of my strengths, okay? He refuses to answer the question.
Steve Jobs (2:51)
I'm going to show you how great I am. I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.
Ben Wilson (3:11)
Perhaps part of the impulse to skip the story is because Next was, spoiler alert, never a huge market success. Next had all the ingredients to succeed. We were at the right place at the right time. We had a world-class team, and we were building technology that was years ahead of the rest of the industry. If history…
Okay, so it's an interesting story because Next really did have the opportunity to be a huge market success on the scale of an Apple or a Microsoft, and it's not just that Steve Jobs couldn't make it succeed, it's that he actively sabotaged it into failure.
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