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Re:Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment,... by newswasboring on Friday August 15, 2025 @09:33AM (#44912234)
The way you have discounted Wozniak's talent, one can also discount Steve's ambition. There are thousands of people same or more ambitious than Jobs. Being ambitious doesn't guarantee anything, neither does being as good as wozniak only work when combined with ambition.
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Re:Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment,... by philosophty on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:13PM (#44917870)
Steve Jobs brought a hell of a lot more to the table than just raw ambition.

I just meant to contrast the level of ambition between the two. Wozniak was extremely unambitious and Jobs pushed him into starting a company, with great difficulty.

Nothing is guaranteed in life but I've certainly met more than a few people that I predicted would be successful and then they were. There are character traits that incline people toward success.

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