[bad_user]

Steve had one competitive advantage: best friending Steve fucking Wozniak.

You know how that happened? They shared common interests, including knowledge of electronics, pulling pranks and passion for computers (yes, Jobs was technically competent enough).

And if I know one thing about %99.9999 of would-be entrepreneurs: they aren't best friends with someone like Wozniak.

[lian]

So...we agree. My point is that where some of the other people mentioned had their masters degrees in CS, Jobs seems to have been more of a business-inclined hobbyist who really liked and could competently work with computers. I concur that his biggest strength as far as computer science went was that he happened to pal around and co-found a company with someone who was the most badass hobbyist in town.

[jimbokun]

Being friends with woz and hanging out at the homebrew club is a probably better education in computing than any degree.