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Old 09-27-2013, 06:41 PM
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Bill Gates I could understand but Steve Jobs?
Despite all the hyperbolic praise that's been heaped on him since he died, Jobs did very little work as an inventor but gained his main success as an entrepreneur and marketer. It still amazes me that Jobs get praised for doing the same sort of thing that Bill Gates gets criticized for
Steve Wozniak was the real inventor and it's not often mentioned that Jobs ripped off Wozniak on their first job together but that Wozniak forgave Jobs.

In my view, Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak would be the "prize". At the time that T2k is set, Jobs was the owner/CEO of The Graphics Group. This organization had been part of the computer division of Lucasfilm and went on to create CGI movies. In 1995 it changed its name to Pixar.
Again, Jobs was clever enough to invest in someone else's work and produce some good product from it but again, he was not an inventor but an entrepreneur and marketer.
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