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>>panark+(OP)
This feels like someone trying to do something they thought Steve Jobs would do.

>>lenerd+W
Steve Jobs was a superficial asshole but was fundamentally a good and ethical person. There's only one major ethical mistake documented in his entire life (being an absentee father while his first daughter was young), which he spent decades making amends for.

The people that emulate Steve Jobs poorly are usually real assholes with a long list of ethical mistakes.

>>staunc+K3
> There's only one major ethical mistake documented in his entire life (being an absentee father while his first daughter was young)

Jobs lied to Steve Wozniak. Atari gave Jobs $5000 to make Breakout for Atari. He told Wozniak he got $700 so Wozniak took home $350.

>>jedber+w5
There is also the story where early Apple employees didn’t get any stock and Wozniak gave some of his.

>>rqtwte+Aa
Things are always more complicated than this...

As a rule, Apple gave stock to employees prior to the IPO, many of whom got rich. But some employees weren't eligible according to the criteria Steve (really, the board) came up with, and so they did not receive stock. Their criteria were typical for the time.

Woz and a few others felt bad about this and shared some of their stock.

Whether those ineligible people "deserved" stock is a matter of judgement...