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[-] ushmel@piefed.world 87 points 1 day ago

And that's why he's 75 and happy and Jobs is dead and no one will know his name in 20 years.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 109 points 1 day ago

no one will know his name in 20 years.

I'm not a fan of Jobs but that's quite a claim. No one will remember one of the most successful CEOs of all time in 2 decades?

Wozniak will leave the public consciousness way sooner than Jobs. Outside of tech circles, pretty much nobody knows who he is now.

[-] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Oh, definitely as Jobs practically created a personality cult, putting Woz literally behind the curtains.

When ordinary people talk about creative geniuses who make innovative devices that change the course of history, most cases they'll talk about Jobs, believing he came up with ideas for most if not all the gadgets that makes Apple a known ~~fashion~~ tech brand... despite Woz being responsible for designing and building the first Apple desktop.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Sad, unfair, infuriating, but probably true.

[-] ushmel@piefed.world 7 points 1 day ago

20 years might be pushing it, but he'd be gone 34ish years by that point. He wasn't much of a philanthropist. Is there any Steve Jobs Parks? Plazas? His early death didn't lend him much time to create a legacy. He'll be known in business and tech scenes, sure, but the pop culture knowledge of him will be negligible. Does the general public know about the CEO of IBM 35+ years ago? The current crop of CEOs are like WWE wrestlers in their persona compared to Jobs. Being present for the smartphone revolution was something, but does anyone remember the CEO of the company that introduced the laptop? Jobs wasn't a Carnegie or Rockefeller.

[-] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Idk, Steve Jobs has like at least 2 movies about him. Pretty sure his name will last considerably longer than 20 years on that alone.

People still talk about Jack Welsh's impact on business culture and he retired in 2001.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago
[-] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 22 points 1 day ago

He's the reason every big company does mass layoffs to boost stock prices every other quarter

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

All my homies hate Jack Welch. Glad he’s dead.

He was the chair of General Electric for decades. He was one of the most prominent businessmen of the 20th century. People in corporate management still use his techniques and ideas.

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