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Re:Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words by steveBK123 on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:42PM (#35528487)
In some ways this can be read as minimizing Jobs, on the other hand you can hold this up against the vast majority of todays operators/founders and find them lacking.

No one is going to care about your product more than you, so if you don't care.. then no one does. Jobs got that and lived by it.

It sounds trivial, but how many of the current FAANG founders/CEOs actually care about their product outside of Zuck? Musk maybe, not necessarily for good reason, and his attention is spread far too thin.

There's little modern analogy for the 80s-90s Jobs-Gates feud, and even Gates clearly didn't care as much given how early he exited and moved on with life.

A lot of modern tech is founded by guys who want to cash out and move onto their science projects/hobbies, and it shows.

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Re:Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words by JohnFen on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:03PM (#35528783)
> outside of Zuck?

I don't think Zuckerberg cares about his product, really. He cares about the income from his product. That's a different thing.

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Re:Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words by steveBK123 on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:12PM (#35528915)
Probably right. He just seems the closest to caring. Maybe he just doesn't have good product taste (cough metaverse), and he's very happy to copy-paste competitors.
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