{"id":894,"date":"2025-01-16T11:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:16:18","slug":"the-17b-gamble-made-on-the-basis-of-a-handshake-with-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/the-17b-gamble-made-on-the-basis-of-a-handshake-with-steve-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"The $17B gamble made on the basis of a handshake with Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/The-17B-gamble-made-on-the-basis-of-a-handshake-with-Steve-Jobs.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1500\"><\/div>\n<p>It seems to be a week for <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/01\/15\/tony-fadell-wanted-apple-to-buy-sonos-steve-wanted-to-sue-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interesting peeks at Apple history<\/a>, a new piece telling the story of Softbank founder Masayoshi Son making a $17B gamble on the basis of a gentleman\u2019s agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/steve-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steve Jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Invariably known as Masa, the Japanese entrepreneur \u2013 who holds the interesting record of having been the richest man in the world for three days \u2013 figured out that <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> had to be working on a phone, two years before it was announced \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,iphone,steve-jobs\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"986150\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/01\/16\/the-17b-gamble-made-on-the-basis-of-a-handshake-with-steve-jobs\/#more-986150\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to be a week for interesting peeks at Apple history, a new piece telling the story of Softbank founder Masayoshi Son making a <a href=\"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/the-17b-gamble-made-on-the-basis-of-a-handshake-with-steve-jobs\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}