#278 Peter Thiel

Steve Jobs return to Apple demonstrated the irreplaceable value of a company's founder. In some way, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were opposites. Jobs as an artist. Preferred closed systems. and spent his time thinking about great products above all else.

Gates was a businessman. Kept his products open. And wanted to run the world. But both Push the companies they started to achievements that nobody else would have been able to match.

A college dropout who walked around barefoot and refused to shower. Jobs was also the insider of his own personality cult. He could act charismatic. Or crazy. All this eccentricity backfired on him in nineteen eighty five.

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