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by chc 3447 days ago
Steve Jobs' contributions came from from his leadership and marketing chops, but he also had pretty good technical knowledge for a CEO. I mean, he got his start designing circuit boards at Atari.
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Jobs was a true polymath. He knew enough about hardware design, software engineering, typography, music, pretty much any relevant subject that he could work well with experts in those fields and synthesise their efforts together into whole products.
Well, he got his start passing of Woz's circuit board designs as his own at Atari. Even he conceded that.

I do think his technical knowledge was probably higher than most give him credit for, however.