[Nomentatus]

A Steve Jobs-like ability to live in her own reality distortion field, plus much of the salesmanship, but minus Steve's very acute (not perfect) sense of what currently impossible problems were on the cusp of being solved, creating future practical products.

There were two companies that I simply couldn't understand, at all, from media reports in the last couple decades. One was Enron, 'tother Theranos. Turned out there was a reason why.

[kolpa]

Jobs's job was to look at stuff and see what he could sell, and to demand that employees invent more stuff to sell. Holmes' job was to invent stuff on demand. She tried (and failed) at a much harder job.

[Nomentatus]

Jobs set the tasks, often demanding very specific inventions and advances - plug and play networking for NeXT, a vastly cheaper mouse mechanism, etc, etc. Only in hindsight can those marked advances be taken for granted. Often very correctly. He was an engineer, starting on the front line as she did, just not the best - I don't know that she was, either.

[Sangermaine]

Yeesh, the Hacker News spin on stuff like this is absurd.