> The people that deify him mostly forget that actually running a company like him means requiring a bailout from your primary competitor, which means failure.

> The people that deify him mostly forget that actually running a company like him means requiring a bailout from your primary competitor, which means failure. There's plenty to criticize Jobs for, but this one doesn't make sense to me. Gates bailed out Apple in August 1997. Jobs departed Apple in 1985 and returned when the NeXT acquisition in February 1997. Do you think that the reason Apple sorely needed capital was primarily down to Jobs' decisions between February and August? Or was it some critical misstep in 1983-1984 manifesting 13 years later?