In this episode of the Think Small Podcast, Phillip Shoemaker, founder and CEO of Identity.org and Persona Shield, shares one of the most extraordinary career origin stories the show has featured: a four-month interview process at Apple that ended with him sitting across a boardroom table from Steve Jobs, arguing about which apps should be approved for a store that would go on to change the global economy. Phillip was the first person to run the App Store, joining in 2009 when the team expected a handful of submissions and received 500 in the first week. Over seven years, he built the review operation from a three-week turnaround to a 24-hour process, grew the team to handle 100,000 submissions per week, and wrote the App Store guidelines that Steve Jobs helped finalize bef ...