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<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"></div>Philanthropic Ventures Foundation</div><keyword id="1780328" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="James-Higa">James Higa</keyword>, a former Apple vice president who <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameshiga">describes</a> his job there as "special ops for Steve"—Steve Jobs, that is—recently gave an interview to Lifestyles, a philanthropy magazine.
The issue is out now, and the author, Darren Gluckman, has <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/116324457/James-Higa-for">posted a copy of the profile, titled "iJames," online</a>.
Higa reveals little, a frustration Gluckman airs in the introduction of the piece: "If you expect to sit across from James Higa and extract memories about his long relationship with <keyword id="6357934" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Steve-Jobs">Steve Jobs</keyword>, you'll leave with an empty notebook."
Higa told Gluckman, "I'm a bit sensitive to people taking advantage of Steve's death and their closeness to him."
Higa told Gluckman he wouldn't even speak to <keyword id="112731" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Walter-Isaacson">Walter Isaacson</keyword>, jobs' official biographer. (He also told Gluckman he started but hadn't finished the book.)
But Gluckman finally got Higa talking about why Jobs picked him as his right-hand man, tasked with critical projects like negotiating rights with the music labels for the launch of the <keyword id="95161" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="itunes">iTunes</keyword> Store. Higa, a Stanford University political-science major, was working as a freelance photographer at the time—hardly a typical resume for work at Apple.
Higa explained that there were "two things" that got him the job:
One was an ability to be frank, honest, and able to go toe-to-toe with him on any question. The other was wide peripheral vision. He’s always wanted that in the people around him. The ability to connect dots is really important. A Renaissance perspective on the world. Because it was always about the intersection of technology and liberal arts.
The article does not cover what is in our mind the most interesting chapter in Jobs and Higa's relationship—the time they spent apart.
In the mid-1980s, Higa worked for Apple setting up its business in Japan. In 1989, he joined jobs' second computer company, NeXT, and ran Asia-Pacific operations there until 1996, when Apple bought NeXT and Jobs returned to the company as an advisor. Higa did not return to Apple with Jobs, however; instead, he joined RealNetworks, the online-multimedia software company, as a senior executive in charge of its international and consumer businesses.
In 2001, though, he returned to Apple at a critical point in its turnaround—that was the year that Jobs unveiled the iPod.
Higa left Apple in July 2012, joining Philanthropic Ventures Foundation the next month as its executive director.
Here's Gluckman's interview with Higa via his posting on Scribd:
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The Right-Hand Man Of Steve Jobs Has Broken His Silence

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Silicon Valley investor <keyword id="274435" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dave-Morin">Dave Morin</keyword> is setting up a new VC fund, following his departure from Slow Ventures in 2019, according to report from Dan Primack at Axios.</li><li>The new fund will be named "Offline Ventures" and will target health and IT <keyword id="6362513" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="startups">startups</keyword>.</li><li>Morin's partners are big <keyword id="6358815" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tech">tech</keyword> names themselves — his wife Brit Morin, James Higa, and Nate Bosshard.</li><li>Offline Ventures will use a rolling fund structure in which backers pay into the firm on a quarterly basis, Primack wrote. The firm will require a minimum $25,000 quarterly commitment, with a goal of raising $50 million in its first year.</li></ul>Early Facebook employee Dave Morin is returning to the VC scene with a new <keyword id="6357097" type="DEFINITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Venture-Capital">venture capital</keyword> fund, more than a year after leaving his previous firm, Axios' Dan Primack <a href="https://www.axios.com/dave-morin-slow-ventures-venture-capital-2e38f190-4ebf-4713-841a-31a59e6d47e7.html">reported</a> Wednesday.The new fund will be called Offline Ventures, and will reportedly focus on health and IT startups. Morin's partners will include his wife and fellow entrepreneur Brit Morin, Tonal co-founder Nate Bosshard, and former Steve Jobs "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/james-higa-aide-steve-jobs-profiled-2013-1">right hand man</a>" James Higa, according to the Axios report.The new fund has a <a href="https://offline.vc/">website</a>, though it leaves details about the firm a mystery. But Bosshard's LinkedIn page names him as a founder of Offline Ventures, and dates his role in the VC firm back to January of this year. Its portfolio includes chat app Clubhouse, baldness treatment startup hims &amp; hers, and notetaking platform Notion, among other companies, according to a list published on Bosshard's <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/natebosshard/">LinkedIn page</a>.Neither Morin nor Bosshard could be immediately reached for comment.Morin <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/slow-ventures-founder-dave-morin-moving-on-11555108364">left</a> early-stage VC firm Slow Ventures, which he founded, in April 2019. His interest in mental health and other types of healthcare drove his decision, according to Primack's report.The investor <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemorin/">co-founded</a> and has chaired <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunrisebio/">Sunrise</a>, a nonprofit with a self-stated mission "to cure depression, reduce suffering, and understand the brain," since 2015.Offline Ventures will use a rolling fund structure, according to Axios. Rolling funds are a type of fundraising <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2020/02/05/angellist-launches-rolling-venture-fund/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&amp;stream=top#5ea8cac55d075ea8cac55d07">recently introduced</a> by AngelList in which investors back a fund on a subscription basis, paying up on a quarterly schedule. Investors will be required to commit at least $25,000 every quarter to Morin's new fund, and the firm will aim to raise $50 million in its first year off this model, according to an anonymous source cited in the Axios report.The Axios report said that Morin declined to comment due to "SEC marketing rules around 'rolling' fundraises."Morin is notable for many Silicon Valley moves, including <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/01/22/dave-morin-to-leave-facebook-launch-new-startup-with-napster-creator-shawn-fanning/">helping</a> create <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-use-facebooks-turn-off-platform-setting-2013-10">Facebook Platform</a>, which allows third-party developers to integrate their apps into the social media giant's network. His wife Brit is known for founding <a href="https://www.brit.co/">Brit + Co,</a> a lifestyle brand offering products and online classes aimed at women.

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