Dave Evans

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2,777 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Jul

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Hidden Brain · Designing a Life that Matters · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

So I was all dressed up for a party that hadn't started.

I spent four years profoundly unsuccessfully looking for a job that didn't exist.

And I was really upset.

Yes, there's a little outfit called Apple, actually.

It's a very long story as to how that occurred.

It began, actually, with a phone call.

I had a welding torch in my hand.

I had a little solar energy startup that, of course, miserably failed because it was way too soon.

And the guy said, my name is so-and-so, and I'm from Apple Computer.

We'd like to talk to you.

And I said, no, you want to talk to the Dave Evans at Hewlett-Packard.

That's the one who likes computers.

I don't, and I hung up.

And there are lots of Dave Evanses.

You can get them in 24 packs at Costco.

And I was sure that the other Dave Evans who I knew worked at Hewlett Packard and let computers was the guy they wanted.

And a very long story later, including 14 interviews and sitting down for lunch with Steve Jobs, they surprised themselves by offering me a job.

And to my great shock, I took it.

And that's how my high tech career started.

But it was the last thing I wanted to do.

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