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by scarface74 1592 days ago
You mean you shouldn’t admire a CEO who took a company from near bankruptcy in 1997 to the most valuable company in the US in 2011?
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You should also admire the boy who took his dorm-gossip php script and made it the world's biggest media empire
I said fawning.

Business people, startup people, VC funders, etc all idolize a specific image of Jobs, which mostly appears to focus on how he dressed, and how he was an asshole to people.

We will never know if being an asshole was needed to get Apple to where he got it, I'm inclined to think it isn't.

Wall Street thought he was a loser too after we was fired as CEO of Apple and just another dumb founder and he should sell his company to IBM. This story repeats again and again. Steve Jobs proved them all wrong and now everything Apple does is brilliant and they should buy Peloton.
Jobs was never CEO during his first tenure.