In 1999 when I joined Apple, the company only employed 6,960 employees worldwide. In 2024, that number was 164,000.
You wear a lot more hats 🎩👒🧢⛑️🪖🤠💂🧑✈️👮👲👷♀️🧑🍳👨🌾🧑🚒🧑🎓🧙🕵️ when the company was as small as we were.
In 1999 when I joined Apple, the company only employed 6,960 employees worldwide. In 2024, that number was 164,000.
You wear a lot more hats 🎩👒🧢⛑️🪖🤠💂🧑✈️👮👲👷♀️🧑🍳👨🌾🧑🚒🧑🎓🧙🕵️ when the company was as small as we were.
The reason the people who work there in 2025 don’t want to hear us talking about the way things were is because they don’t want to admit to having less responsibility than they did.