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This is absurd. Steve Jobs would definitely get funding. He's persistent, persuasive, and full of ideas. He'll eventually convince an engineer to join him by any means necessary. He'll shine when it comes time to present to VCs. He made many of the initial inroads with Apple in the early days raising money, getting manufacturing components, and employees as a shoeless, unbathed hippie with long hair. He made initial investors believe in personal computing when there was no such thing. I think that's much more difficult than convincing venture capitalists looking for the next hot thing in an overheated market.