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Being a smooth talking steve jobs is valuable in an of itself. If you can sell your company to the public with an aura, that's worth more than CTO/CIO/CMO etc c

Being a smooth talking steve jobs is valuable in an of itself. If you can sell your company to the public with an aura, that's worth more than CTO/CIO/CMO etc combined. Better to be a thomas edison than a tesla.

mikeryan 3y ago
My immediate thought on this comment was of was Steve Jobs but I’ve backed off a bit. The man seems to have been a bit of an asshole to some, the stories are numerous, but in some ways he seems different. I think mostly because he didn’t seem devious, or self serving, just blunt and his mission was to the company or product more so than to himself.
- martythemaniak 3y ago
  Hi died relatively young and before the general tech backlash, which is why people look back at him fondly. Had he lived, he would've been taken down many notches. I mean, rich asshole who verbally abuses and berates his staff, upgrades his Benz every six months so he doesn't need a license plate like the plebs AND parks exclusively in the disabled spot? That was never gonna fly.
- bredren 3y ago
  Steve’s overriding mission was to the customer. He used his own taste as a proxy for customer goals.
bugglebeetle 3y ago
> Better to be a thomas edison than a tesla A great example of why America is in social and political decline. The base nihilism of the con man figure is now the quintessential American aspiration.
- jonathankoren 3y ago
  Truly, a man that died penniless while spouting rather fanciful and discredited claims of superweapons (earthquake machines, intercontinental death rays, for two) is clearly the man to emulate.
  - bugglebeetle 3y ago
    Truly, the psychopath torturing animals with live current in public is the man to emulate!
    - ChickeNES 3y ago
      Never happened, that's an urban legend
      - deleted 3y ago
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      - bugglebeetle 3y ago
        >Eventually, Edison’s team would kill 44 dogs, six calves, and two horses in their quest to discredit alternating current. https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/the-cruel-animal-testing-behind-thomas-edisons-quest-to-show-dangers-of-ac https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/the-cruel-animal...
        ChickeNES 3y ago
        Okay, I might have to mea culpa here, as I thought it was a reference to the infamous Topsy the elephant, which Edison was not involved with.
  - krapp 3y ago
    Yes. Who would want to be the genius who discovered a revolutionary paradigm in energy transmission and created numerous world-changing inventions when you could be the rich asshole who ripped him off? And also who claimed to have invented a telephone that talked to the dead[0], btw. [0]https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas-edisons-least-successful-invention-the-spirit-phone https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas...

mikeryan 3y ago

My immediate thought on this comment was of was Steve Jobs but I’ve backed off a bit. The man seems to have been a bit of an asshole to some, the stories are numerous, but in some ways he seems different. I think mostly because he didn’t seem devious, or self serving, just blunt and his mission was to the company or product more so than to himself.

martythemaniak 3y ago
Hi died relatively young and before the general tech backlash, which is why people look back at him fondly. Had he lived, he would've been taken down many notches. I mean, rich asshole who verbally abuses and berates his staff, upgrades his Benz every six months so he doesn't need a license plate like the plebs AND parks exclusively in the disabled spot? That was never gonna fly.
bredren 3y ago
Steve’s overriding mission was to the customer. He used his own taste as a proxy for customer goals.

bugglebeetle 3y ago

> Better to be a thomas edison than a tesla A great example of why America is in social and political decline. The base nihilism of the con man figure is now the quintessential American aspiration.

jonathankoren 3y ago
Truly, a man that died penniless while spouting rather fanciful and discredited claims of superweapons (earthquake machines, intercontinental death rays, for two) is clearly the man to emulate.
- bugglebeetle 3y ago
  Truly, the psychopath torturing animals with live current in public is the man to emulate!
  - ChickeNES 3y ago
    Never happened, that's an urban legend
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
    - bugglebeetle 3y ago
      >Eventually, Edison’s team would kill 44 dogs, six calves, and two horses in their quest to discredit alternating current. https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/the-cruel-animal-testing-behind-thomas-edisons-quest-to-show-dangers-of-ac https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/the-cruel-animal...
      - ChickeNES 3y ago
        Okay, I might have to mea culpa here, as I thought it was a reference to the infamous Topsy the elephant, which Edison was not involved with.
- krapp 3y ago
  Yes. Who would want to be the genius who discovered a revolutionary paradigm in energy transmission and created numerous world-changing inventions when you could be the rich asshole who ripped him off? And also who claimed to have invented a telephone that talked to the dead[0], btw. [0]https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas-edisons-least-successful-invention-the-spirit-phone https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas...