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The Jobs/Wozniak example is a great one. I might suggest that Wozniak's execution created the company, and Jobs' vision transformed the company into what it is today.

But that transformation involved nearly destroying the company first, getting himself ousted. Then recreating MacOS as a UNIX platform for a market that did not want it, only to be finally integrated by the dying Apple as a Hail Mary play by both Jobs' and Apple.

Jobs' get a lot of credit for the vision, and even the execution. But it could have turned out lots of different ways. If Pixar had not been successful (in no small part because of Jobs dumping millions and millions of his own money into it), one could imagine NeXT not being bought by Apple.



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