How Steve Jobs Put an End to the Leaks at Apple

John Lilly, former CEO of Mozilla, shares his memories of Steve Jobs and reveals how the Apple founder put a stop to the leaks coming out of Apple, in a post on his Tumblr blog.

He was also a gifted, gifted operator. One of the struggles we were going through when he came back was that Apple was about the leakiest organization in history - it had gotten so bad that people were cavalier about it. In the face of all those leaks, I remember the first all company e-mail that Steve sent around after becoming Interim CEO again - he talked in it about how Apple would release a few things in the coming week, and a desire to tighten up communications so that employees would know more about what was going on - and how that required more respect for confidentiality. That mail was sent on a Thursday; I remember all of us getting to work on Monday morning and reading mail from Fred Anderson, our then-CFO, who said basically: "Steve sent mail last week, he told you not to leak, we were tracking everyone's mail, and 4 people sent the details to outsiders. They've all been terminated and are no longer with the company."


Hit the link below to continue reading Lilly's look back at Steve Jobs.

[via CultofMac]