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Alt text: LinkedIn post comparing the firing of Sam Altman from OpenAI to the firing of Steve Jobs from Apple

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 88 points 1 year ago

I will never forget the day when some rich white kid moved from playing at business in one building to playing at business in a different building.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a software developer but I can't say either of those events have had any impact at all on my life.

Also sorry I never look at LinkedIn thankfully, but it's fun to see these :)

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's okay, remember that I am toiling away in that godforsaken place so you don't have to 👍

[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your service🫡

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So a good thing?

It was apparent at the time that Steve Jobs was not a good executive nor understood the computer market at the time. Jobs's vision ended up aligning better with the market when he went back, but it didn't fit during the 80's.

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of how Sam Altman, in his now capacity as a researcher for Microsoft will probably not produce anything half as innovative as NeXT (even if just for the fact that their computers were used to make Doom)

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago

Eh, you can put Doom on anything now.

[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Even when he went back, his greatest innovation was bringing elite projection to the computing world.

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

I would love if you all posted stuff here as well! I'm sure there's no lack of content on LinkedIn