It’s not totally uncommon to list folks as co-founders that didn’t actually co-found the company, but had a major influence on its direction, E.g. at Polyvore:

It’s not totally uncommon to list folks as co-founders that didn’t actually co-found the company, but had a major influence on its direction, E.g. at Polyvore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvore Also, he stops footnoting during the final myth: “Jobs poured more money in to cover the losses each time. It's sometimes construed that he did this because he saw the long-term potential of the movie business and held on to "his vision" with further investments. This wasn't the case at all, however. Jobs kept pouring money into the company so that he wouldn't have to sustain the embarrassment that his first company - after being booted from Apple - was a failure.” I am surprised Steve had no inclination that a studio who had wanted to make animated film all these years at least had the potential to do so. So clearly Steve wasn’t just investing into a hardware company.