Tony Corneto and the Steve Jobs slide deck (“Get to the point”)

Used to work at this hellhole of a place called Virtuoso — I liked it for six months, hated it for 12 months, and got laid off, and in those 12 months my bosses hated me for probably six of the 12, so a nice little dance overall — and one of my dudes at the time was this cat named Tony Corneto. Almost too many stories about this mf’er to share here, and some of the worst ones are unabashedly not mine to tell, but this one is pretty good.

This guy sat in Seattle and I sat in Texas. I think he was over something called “customer experience” or “user experience,” but goddamn if the whole thing wasn’t a complete cluster fuck. My boss’ boss, who seems to now be retired in Park City (nice!), managed one silo. His boss’ boss, who was a beautiful gay man everyone respected even though he couldn’t manage his way out of a paper bag, managed another silo. My silo was all about beauty and colors and “branding elements.” His silo was supposedly about data-driven solutions and sprints and lead generation optimization and all this stuff. I found out later that during the interview process, this ass clown called me “Stoner Ted” because I talk slow. I still got the job, so I guess that’s cool, kinda.

These silos were supposed to collaborate daily and we honestly barely spoke, and then every five months there’d be a blow-up and…