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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
Steve Jobs gave Woz half of the base amount, which is what Woz agreed to. Jobs withheld the fact that he was going to receive a bonus on top of the base amount, and did not share any of that money.

Was it an ethical mistake? Sure. He should have at least disclosed that he was receiving the bonus money, even if he didn't want to share it.

But claiming it was a "major ethical mistake" seems fairly out of touch with reality.

And of course, taken in the context of all of the good things they did together, it was completely insignificant and Woz has said as much.

>>staunc+Qa
When you decide to hide money from your partner it's not called a "mistake".

>>varjag+H01
Woz in this case was acting as a subcontractor, doing a one-off favor for a friend. This was before they became partners when creating Apple.