An amazing excerpt from Steve Jobs biography about his meeting with president Obama. It appears he was not keen to meet the president and it took his wife and his son some efforts to make him change his mind.

They say Steve was bold, not sweetening his words, but I think he was simply sincere. He said whatever he said because he cared.

You can imagine how hard it is for the president of the United States to listen to the opinion of the world’s most valuable company’s CEO who says that it is actually better in China. Just think of this, No. 1 CEO of No. 1 company in the world says to the president of No. 1 country in the world that it is better in China.

I hope Obama learned some lessons out of that meeting. He can hardly have an equally sincere friend around him in close future.