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And that’s why he’s 75 and happy and Jobs is dead and no one will know his name in 20 years.

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no one will know his name in 20 years.

I’m not a fan of Jobs but that’s quite a claim. No one will remember one of the most successful CEOs of all time in 2 decades?

Wozniak will leave the public consciousness way sooner than Jobs. Outside of tech circles, pretty much nobody knows who he is now.

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People still talk about Jack Welsh’s impact on business culture and he retired in 2001.

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No idea who that is

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He’s the reason every big company does mass layoffs to boost stock prices every other quarter

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All my homies hate Jack Welch. Glad he’s dead.

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He was the chair of General Electric for decades. He was one of the most prominent businessmen of the 20th century. People in corporate management still use his techniques and ideas.

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Thanks

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Sad, unfair, infuriating, but probably true.

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20 years might be pushing it, but he’d be gone 34ish years by that point. He wasn’t much of a philanthropist. Is there any Steve Jobs Parks? Plazas? His early death didn’t lend him much time to create a legacy. He’ll be known in business and tech scenes, sure, but the pop culture knowledge of him will be negligible. Does the general public know about the CEO of IBM 35+ years ago? The current crop of CEOs are like WWE wrestlers in their persona compared to Jobs. Being present for the smartphone revolution was something, but does anyone remember the CEO of the company that introduced the laptop? Jobs wasn’t a Carnegie or Rockefeller.

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Idk, Steve Jobs has like at least 2 movies about him. Pretty sure his name will last considerably longer than 20 years on that alone.

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Oh, definitely as Jobs practically created a personality cult, putting Woz literally behind the curtains.

When ordinary people talk about creative geniuses who make innovative devices that change the course of history, most cases they’ll talk about Jobs, believing he came up with ideas for most if not all the gadgets that makes Apple a known fashion tech brand… despite Woz being responsible for designing and building the first Apple desktop.

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Yeah, exactly. The general public thinks that Steve Jobs invented the iPhone. He’s not just some random CEO.

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Yup, being a CEO is the number one leading cause of pancreatic cancer…

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You’re right. Ignorance got Jobs. Stress doesn’t help though.

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Jobs wasn’t ignorant of his situation. He had the best doctors in the world telling him exactly what he needed to do . He decided to ignore them because he thought he was right and they were wrong.

Steve Jobs killed himself. The gun was his hubris and the trigger was the universe telling him no.

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And history repeats itself with OceanGate

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Nope but being an idiot and treating it with a fruit diet is certainly a factor.

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😆 that’ll do you in for sure indeed

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