On: Apple’s Employee No. 0 (2008)

[grecy]

> wow. What a fucking asshole. A talented asshole, but an absolute piece of work

That's great!

Learn from him - emulate and improve on what made him talented and successful, and do less of what made him an asshole.

What a great person to learn from!

[neilk → grecy]

Wow. Are you one of those people who posts on LinkedIn about how they'd turn down a million dollars for the chance to wait on a billionaire's table?

Please. Steve Jobs is only famous because he was an asshole.

He did have other qualities, including that of recognizing talent and inspiring them. His interest in counterculture probably served him well in other ways, but that was not particularly unusual for his time.

Steve Jobs' path to being a billionaire required the sheer gall to steal others' work, and bully employees into burnout, over and over again.

[grecy → neilk]

na, I'm one of those people who realize there is a lot of nuance to the world, and there's nothing to gain by just painting everything black and white.

[qwytw → neilk]

> Steve Jobs is only famous because he was an asshole

Are you saying that he only managed to achieve what he did because he's an asshole?

Because I think more people know of him because of what he did with the Mac and "creating" the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

> Steve Jobs' path to being a billionaire

He wasn't even that wealthy by tech billionaire standards.