[quote=CONCHO]People tend to forget that Jobs is responsible for 2 insanely great, insanely successful companies: Apple and Pixar. He bought Pixar for $10M and sold it for over $7B 20 years later. Cha-ching.
A world without Steve Jobs? There would have been no “Toy Story” — kids wouldn’t have gotten to watch Buzz and Woody! I don’t even want to imagine such a miserable place…[/quote]
A world without Pixar, we still have Kungfu Panda, Shrek, Aladin, Lilo & Stitch, Mulan, the Lion King, etc. Doesn’t sound too miserable to me. Aladin and Kungfu Panda > Toy Story IMHO.
Jobs is great, no doubt about that, but he’s no Gates, Brin/Page, and to a lesser extent Zuckerberg. I see Jobs in similar light Jack Welch than the the guys I listed above. When Jack Welch took over GE, GE was about $1/share. When he left GE, it was about $40/share. At the peak, it was ~$55/share. When Jobs took over Apple, it was about $10/share, now it’s ~$400/share. They both have great stories of turning around nearly bankrupt companies. But Gate, Brin/Page, and to a lesser extent Zuckerberg formed a company from their “garage” and have a company that lead their respective industry. Jobs and Gates were starting out the same time and we all know how that battle turned out. At the peak, MSFT has a market cap of $488B, while Apple’s current peak is $355B.
[quote=walterwhite]henry ford thought the jews were planning a giant conspiracy. he was kind of a wackadoodle.[/quote]
That’s a bit of an understatement. He bought a newspaper so he could publish the fraudulent “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and continued with daily additional anti-semetic rants, eventually publishing them as a book. A copy of which was found in Hitler’s bedroom, with laudatory handwritten notes. Understandable, they were brothers in thought. His name should be synonymous with Benedict Arnold. Treasonous, or guilty of sedition at least. I don’t really know much about Steve Jobs outside of Apple. But I suspect in comparison to Ford, he’s a saint.
[quote=walterwhite]henry ford thought the jews were planning a giant conspiracy. he was kind of a wackadoodle.[/quote]
That’s a bit of an understatement. He bought a newspaper so he could publish the fraudulent “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and continued with daily additional anti-semetic rants, eventually publishing them as a book. A copy of which was found in Hitler’s bedroom, with laudatory handwritten notes. Understandable, they were brothers in thought. His name should be synonymous with Benedict Arnold. Treasonous, or guilty of sedition at least. I don’t really know much about Steve Jobs outside of Apple. But I suspect in comparison to Ford, he’s a saint.
[quote=walterwhite]henry ford thought the jews were planning a giant conspiracy. he was kind of a wackadoodle.[/quote]
That’s a bit of an understatement. He bought a newspaper so he could publish the fraudulent “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and continued with daily additional anti-semetic rants, eventually publishing them as a book. A copy of which was found in Hitler’s bedroom, with laudatory handwritten notes. Understandable, they were brothers in thought. His name should be synonymous with Benedict Arnold. Treasonous, or guilty of sedition at least. I don’t really know much about Steve Jobs outside of Apple. But I suspect in comparison to Ford, he’s a saint.
[quote=walterwhite]henry ford thought the jews were planning a giant conspiracy. he was kind of a wackadoodle.[/quote]
That’s a bit of an understatement. He bought a newspaper so he could publish the fraudulent “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and continued with daily additional anti-semetic rants, eventually publishing them as a book. A copy of which was found in Hitler’s bedroom, with laudatory handwritten notes. Understandable, they were brothers in thought. His name should be synonymous with Benedict Arnold. Treasonous, or guilty of sedition at least. I don’t really know much about Steve Jobs outside of Apple. But I suspect in comparison to Ford, he’s a saint.
