Who is the employee that Steve Jobs fired?
In Jobs (2013) there is a scene whereby Steve Jobs fires an employee for disagreeing with him on "fonts":
Who is the employee who disagreed with Steve Jobs on the "font" issue and got fired?
Is this part of the movie (that is based on Steve Jobs real life) an event that happened or was it added for drama? If so can someone name the real person referenced?
Best Answer
This scene was meant to put a spotlight on Jobs' darker side, but the event never really happened. In a fact check, this scene was specifically mentioned:
Take the movie's font scene. At an all-hands meeting, an employee dares to question Jobs’s choice of “adding pretty fonts” on the Lisa computer, the forerunner to the Macintosh, causing Jobs to fire him with a cinematic “Get out!” But this event didn’t actually happen. In reality, Steve Jobs hired a typeface designer, Susan Kare, and got to work convincing the rest of Apple’s executives that fonts were a worthwhile way to spend their money and time. It was an act of soft diplomacy, not a unilateral diktat.
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