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[...] Steve Wozniak [75th birthday]: "I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for" (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] ushmel@piefed.world 80 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 98 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Sad, unfair, infuriating, but probably true.

[–] ushmel@piefed.world 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 hour 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.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

No idea who that is

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 20 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.