How was this ever going to work? If I worked for 20 years with one of history's most influential entrepreneur, and we had a deep working partnership sustained

How was this ever going to work? If I worked for 20 years with one of history's most influential entrepreneur, and we had a deep working partnership sustained by mutual respect and trust, and then that person died, I simply don't know how I'd continue showing up every day. Keep in mind that when Jobs returned to Apple, Ive was not at all influential within Apple and on the verge of leaving. To go from that place to one of the world's most influential industrial designers — gosh, I'd have some ego too. I'm grateful for his contribution. And I'm also grateful that his departure seemed to have opened new avenues of creativity and flexibility of thought at Apple. After all, it was Jobs himself at the Stanford connection who said that death (or, thought of another way, departure) is life's change agent.