Why Work as a Free Intern for People You Admire
May 18, 2024
Working as an intern for Steve Jobs’s NeXT was the most important career decision for Chet Kapoor, Chief Executive of DataStax. “I can attribute a large portion of my success to my first two or three years at NeXT,” Kapoor, 57, told CNBC.
While at NeXT, from 1989 to 1993, Kapoor got coffee for the person who made coffee for Jobs. But eager to be around Jobs, Kapoor focused on the questions that Jobs asked because it offered insights into his thought process.