Yep, he's your typical parasitic orbiting-usurper, buzzing around people of talent until the opportunity presents itself for him to steal all their work while they're busy making the future happen.

Steve Jobs was exactly the same. Wozniak made the Apple 1 a reality and before that, he used Wozniak's discarded Pong PCBs to get a job at Atari. At Atari he was just a talentless socially domineering psychopath doing shakedown on the company's nerd for his lunch money.

When assigned a task to create a cost-optimized version of the game Breakout, were he was offered 100$ for each TTL chip he could optimize out of the design. So he went to his "friend" Wozniak, who managed to remove 50 chips from the design. Steve Jobs made 5000$ (in 1976 money) and he "let" Wozniak have 375$ of this. All jobs did is the menial work of etching the PCBs sketched by Wozniak and solder some of them.

Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are truely despicable pieces of shit and I say as a society, and for the good of everyone, we should use the dystopian surveillance capitalism to find all people like them and box them right out so we don't have to suffer such parasitic psychopaths.

His initial lottery ticket of a business Zip2 I think he was fairly a founder.

I know next to nothing about it because no one ever heard of it before Compaq had a huge case of dot-com FOMO and paid $300 million for it, where it promptly went nowhere like it already was.

Who founded SpaceX, then?

Ohh, so like he's the Tommy Tallarico of tech

Isn't he the founder of SpaceX?

I think you're right about everything else though.

Wait, didn't he contribute like 100 lines of code to PayPal?

I think Jobs had his issues, but I do have to consider it fair for folks to claim him to be a visionary.

There was a presentation back in '97 where someone a bilt salty about Apple abandoning OpenDoc for Java and Jobs had a pretty solid response with insight.

Not so sure about post-iPod Jobs, but once upon a time he certainly seemed a respectable business leader with good product focus.

In fairness to Jobs, he may have been an arsehole, but he was also an incredible salesman who knew what his customers wanted.

I'm old enough to remember how genuinely captivating his product presentations could be. The shit that Apple pre-records these days is worthless by comparison.

'member r/enoughmuskspam ? Reddit was blowing him so hard there was a sub asking to please tone it down a little.