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Jobs was actually a technician at Atari, assembling circuit boards during the night shift. Jobs was later paid by Atari to make Breakout, but basically subcontr
by blackguardx 9mo ago
Jobs was actually a technician at Atari, assembling circuit boards during the night shift. Jobs was later paid by Atari to make Breakout, but basically subcontracted it to Wozniak for 50% of the contract. Jobs ended up paying Wozniak less than 1/10 of how much Atari paid him.
- qingcharles 9mo agoWoz half-heartedly disputes that. He doesn't think that Jobs would have screwed him that badly, and in his kindness he also says that if Jobs did screw him then he doesn't care because he values their lifetime of friendship over one bum business deal.
- ErroneousBosh 9mo agoWoz is a wise man. If you've got enough in your pot you don't need to look in the other guy's pot.
- lostlogin 9mo agoI don’t think that’s what’s being suggested. Pay why you owe and what you promise. Doing anything less than that makes you a dick.
- wat10000 9mo agoBoth are true. Jobs was a dick and Woz handled it nicely. Woz got screwed over. Should he have pushed back on this? Maybe. Would Woz have had a better life if he had? I'm doubtful. I'd say Woz got the better deal in the long term. His friend had a tumultuous life and ultimately died of stubbornness. Woz seems to have had decades of good living.
- leptons 9mo agoIf one guy's pot is worth 10 billion, and the other's is worth 100 million, and the first guy got rich from the second guy's work, things seem a little bit upside down. 1% of Jobs wealth is still a lot of money, but the disparity is stark for two people who co-founded the company.
- ErroneousBosh 9mo agoIt's approximately 100 million more than you or I have.
- leptons 9mo agoWell we didn't found a company with Steve Jobs and get only 1% of the wealth from it.