We saw the movie Jobs:
- I could not work out what Steve Jobs actually achieved on his own by the time the film ended in about 2001.
- Jobs was portrayed as a thoroughly unlikable fellow who was a terrible CEO who deserved to be fired in the mid-1980s.
- If he had been hit by a bus in 2000, no one would remember him now. I read a biography of Jobs around that time.
By 2012, Jobs had been labelled “Greatest entrepreneur of our time”, “brilliant, visionary, inspiring”, and “the quintessential entrepreneur of our generation” and CEO of the decade.
My estimations of Jobs did go up later when I found out that after resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate philanthropy programmes. Jobs said he felt that expanding Apple would do more good than giving money to charity. This is a great point by him about the role of economic progress in abolishing poverty. There is no public record of Jobs giving money to charity apart from product RED.
Good to see that having a driven personality can still get you a pass on your membership of the top 0.1% of income earners in the eyes of the Twitter Left or should it be the IPhone Left.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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