Ashton Kutcher: Steve Jobs Was Kind Of Like A Great Football Coach [Video]

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Getting into the psyche of any major historical figure is a difficult task, especially when you’ve never even met them, so to sympathize with Steve Jobs’ dick-ish behavior for his role in JOBS, Ashton Kutchers says he thought of Steve as kind of like a great football coach.

During an appearance on The Colbert Report, Kutcher says he can totally relate to why Steve Jobs berated people, because his high school football coach/uncle used to throw temper tantrums to make the team better too.

Kutcher told Colbert that he also thinks the way Steve sought love and appreciation from people was by obsessing about making perfect products for them, so that kind of justified being an asshole to people.

Here’s the full interview:

 

What do you think of Ashton’s analogy of Steve Jobs’ as an angry football coach at Apple? Let us know in the comments.

 

Source: Colbert Nation

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