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Email attachment inventor turned down role from ‘domineering’ Steve Jobs

on May 26, 2014 | 0 comments

By Natalie Mortimer

The inventor of the email attachment, Nathaniel Borenstein, turned down a job offer from Steve Jobs because he felt the late Apple CEO was too ‘domineering’ and the pair would have a clash of personalities.

Borenstein, who received the offer from Jobs after carrying out a post PhD project at Carnegie Mellon University – which saw the computer science graduate write a new email program allowing images to be embedded in messages – told The Telegraph that ‘nobody’ on his team wanted to work for Jobs.

“Around this time [when the work began to attract attention from industry figures], a guy Read full story ›

Source: The Drum