[saghm]

Sure, but there's obviously a spectrum to how people act due to a lack of maturity and wisdom, and it's not obvious to me that Jobs fell into the normal range of immature behavior rather than being much more conceited and selfish than average. It's also not like he didn't have plenty of time to recognize his mistakes and try to make amends and act differently going forward, and it doesn't really seem like he ever grew in that regard.

[simonh]

"One of the frustrating things, and many of us probably experiences this in their lives, is that as you grow and mature you change, but people are constantly treating you as though you are still the same person you were when you were 18 or 19." - Steve Jobs.

[saghm]

I find it hard to believe that most people he interacted with in the last 2-3 decades of his life as a wealthy, famous CEO treated him the same way he was treated as an unknown young adult. Regardless, it's not clear to me that this is much of a rebuttal to what I said above; I made the assertion that he didn't stop acting selfishly later in life, and a pithy quote doesn't demonstrate any evidence of better behavior.

[simonh]

Look up the interviews with people who actually worked for him and with him on YouTube. He successfully recruited and retained top talent, and inspired fierce loyalty at Apple, NeXT and Pixar. Hard to do if you treat people unfairly.