2. People like Steve (or Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Elon, Jeff Bezos, Larry and Sergey...) bring together teams of people and lots of money on a problem.
3. The "lone genius" is great but leaders who bring tens of thousands of people and hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over their lifetime usually can have a greater impact. By getting consumers to pay, you can continue to fund even better products. Mobile technology will make great strides in the next decade because Steve Jobs planted the seed. Hopefully, Elon, for example, will eventually get to an electric car with a 500 mile range and rockets that make weekly trips to Mars.
4. Leaders like Steve find solutions to problems. When he worked on the Macintosh, the developers used 68k assembler. At NeXT he went with Objective C because that's what his developers wanted. If Eiffel had been more popular they might have gone with that. Using Unix was cool but if a good solution didn't exist, they could have copied Amiga OS. :-)
2. People like Steve (or Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Elon, Jeff Bezos, Larry and Sergey...) bring together teams of people and lots of money on a problem.
3. The "lone genius" is great but leaders who bring tens of thousands of people and hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over their lifetime usually can have a greater impact. By getting consumers to pay, you can continue to fund even better products. Mobile technology will make great strides in the next decade because Steve Jobs planted the seed. Hopefully, Elon, for example, will eventually get to an electric car with a 500 mile range and rockets that make weekly trips to Mars.
4. Leaders like Steve find solutions to problems. When he worked on the Macintosh, the developers used 68k assembler. At NeXT he went with Objective C because that's what his developers wanted. If Eiffel had been more popular they might have gone with that. Using Unix was cool but if a good solution didn't exist, they could have copied Amiga OS. :-)