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If Steve Jobs was coming up today, could he have owned leetcode and tech interviews, would he have gotten a CS degree, could he have succeeded in a st
by JohnBooty 5y ago
If Steve Jobs was coming up today, could he have owned
leetcode and tech interviews, would he have gotten a
CS degree, could he have succeeded in a start-up today?
I don't think I understand this hypothetical. He didn't go through traditional engineer channels back then, and I doubt he'd have the mindset to care to do it now.
The main difference between then and now is that the tech landscape is so much more mature. "Two guys in a garage" can potentially shape a brand new industry (like microcomputers in the 1970s) but would not disrupt a zillion dollar industry today.
However, broadly speaking, their approach works in general. The pairing of a "visionary and showman" (Jobs) and "genius-level engineer" (Woz) can be really effective. I think most successful small partnerships work this way. Not all of them change the world like Apple, because world-changing revolutions just don't come along that often. Jobs+Woz were a great partnership who happened to catch a really great wave.