Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs
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Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs
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Re: Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs
#2re: "if anything his most important contribution was just general hustling."
If you don't have "general hustling" going on your company isn't going anywhere.
Re: Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs
#3I'm getting tired of these YOU SHOULD EMULATE X INSTEAD OF Y stories...
You should emulate Bill Gates instead of Steve Jobs...
You should emulate Wozniak instead of Jobs...
Who cares?? I would be proud to emulate any of these great men.
Re: Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs
#4"Wozniak had no desire to run any part of the company, he just wanted to be a mid-level engineer (he initially wanted to give plans for the Apple I away for free)."
"[Jobs] who was mainly given no authority up until this point, was obsessed with (proving) himself and was able to get an opportunity to lead the Macintosh team. [...] He grabbed the best engineers from around the company and put them on the Macintosh team."
So the only logical conclusion can be that founders should emulate Woz, not Jobs. Clearly...
Re: Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs
#5So what I'm hearing is that tenacious Steve failed a bunch of times before he finally hit one out of the park.
Sounds like an entrepreneur to me.
Re: Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs
#6According to Steve, you shouldn't be emulating anyone - be yourself. You'll never be a better Steve Jobs than Steve was - or a better Woz than Woz was.
The key thing I got out of the article is how important your co-founder is - one thing Steve seems to have is that he recognized talent very quickly (Woz, Ive at the age of 29) and developed them.
Re: Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs
#7So what I'm hearing is that tenacious Steve failed a bunch of times before he finally hit one out of the park. Sounds like an entrepreneur to me.
"Founders today will not have the opportunity to learn the lessons Jobs did because they don’t have the resources and klout that Jobs had."
Jobs was a millionaire when he failed a bunch of times and lost all his money. Are you a millionaire?
Re: Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs
#8According to Steve, you shouldn't be emulating anyone - be yourself. You'll never be a better Steve Jobs than Steve was - or a better Woz than Woz was. The key thing I got out of the article is how important your co-founder is - one thing Steve seems to have is that he recognized talent very quickly (Woz, Ive at the age of 29) and developed them.
Or he just got lucky and was Wozniak's best friend from High School. Which is the true story.
Re: Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs
#9 Steve Jobs played a minor role in Apple’s early success with the Apple II
If it had not been for Jobs, [Wozniak] might still be handing out schematics of his boards for free at the back of Homebrew meetings. It was Jobs who had turned his ingenious designs into a budding business, just as he had with the Blue Box . . . . To make the Apple II successful required more than just Wozniak's awesome circuit design. It would need to be packaged into a fully integrated consumer product, and that was Jobs's role.
For all of his foibles, Jobs was the quintessential founder, relentlessly pushing the business forward -- recruiting great team members, signing up investors, and polishing the product for a mass audience.
Re: Why Founders Should Emulate Wozniak, Not Jobs
#10I'm getting tired of these YOU SHOULD EMULATE X INSTEAD OF Y stories... You should emulate Bill Gates instead of Steve Jobs... You should emulate Wozniak instead of Jobs... Who cares?? I would be proud to emulate any of these great men.
Sorry you don't like the title. Article is about the misconceptions surrounding Jobs.