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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has earned the top spot in Fortune magazine’s list of the top 12 entrepreneurs of our time. Jobs bested Microsoft’s Bill Gates, FedEx’s Fred Smith and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos in a list that surprisingly doesn’t include a single woman.
Jobs was largely successful because he strayed from the beaten path when developing a new product. He believed that market research and focus groups limited a company’s ability to create a great product. When asked about how much market research was done to lead the development of the iPad, Jobs said, “None. It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want. It's hard for [consumers] to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it."
As the Fortune piece notes, the former CEO relied on his intuition when making important business decisions and demanded only the best from his employees. Small details pertaining to the user experience were often put in higher regard than most companies would bother with.
The majority of individuals that made the top 12 list did so based heavily on economic and social impact. Other key categories for admission include those who have inspired employees and other entrepreneurs with their world-changing vision and have a record for innovation.
The rest of the top 12 list looks like this:
2. Bill Gates (Microsoft)
3. Fred Smith (FedEx)
4. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
5. Larry Page & Sergey Brin (Google)
6. Howard Schultz (Starbucks)
7. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
8. John Mackey (Whole Foods)
9. Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines)
10. Narayana Murthy (Infosys)
11. Sam Walton (Wal-Mart)
12. Muhammad Yunus (Grameen Bank)
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Zilpha said:
I was bored of Steve Jobs before, now I'm just getting nauseated.
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DanUK said:
Mmm i'm surprised to see someone like Branson didn't make the cut!
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When I read this title I had to run to the garbage can to puke.
Steve Jobs NEVER ORIGINALLY INVENTED ANYTHING.
EVERYTHING he was ever associated with was either a stolen idea, or a re-packaging of something existing. Going all the way back to his Xerox tour which he never should have been allowed to do in the first place, that woman employed there that warned them what her suspitions were was right.
If anything Steve Woz should be entrepreneur over Jobs, at least he built the Apple II, jobs did nothing but submit the system for application.
-suing companies to stop their far superior products from sale because they know they'll get destroyed once they do go to sale (Android handsets outselling 4 for every 6 handsets sold for example)
-Horrible factory working conditions for years
-Horribly overcharging for inferior products compared to other choices within the same price range
-Willing to lose all investors' holdings in the company for a fishing expedition in a whirlpool
-Literally EVERYTHING is closed-source/proprietary, giving you the flexibility of granite
And so on and so on.......
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To Guest @ 1130
Not all Americans worship money. Its the medium that makes the whole world go around. Do you have a job? Do you work for coin of your relm? Then you are no different then 99% of Americans. We go to work, we get our money, we pay our bills ect. ect. ect. We have families, we go to our respective places or worship, we go to the store and buy food. Sound familiar? Its Media and Govt. who make these rediculous lists. Stop lumping all of America in as one group. It only goes to show that you are the person with a problem because you choose to generalize a group or nation and go no farther.
Steve Jobs was an a$$. Period. He was a spoiled little brat who ran his company his way and threw temper tantrums when he didnt get his way. Top 10 for Apple bottom 90 for the person who ran it.
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Load of load an looks like a billionaire wannabe sock puppet.
If Steve Jobs died before he returned to Apple he'd be deemed a failure.
1. He gamed the new liver community with his jet or he would have died several years ago before the ipad/ipod.
2. Apples wealth depends on 3rd world dictators to provide slave labor in police states to manufacture his products.
3. He never shared the wealth and horded cash from his investors which only changed because he died.
4. He didn't invent this stuff he stole ideas from his employees and called them his own. Nor did he invent touch screens, phones, digital camera.
So to sum up his 'success' was built upon the backs of modern day slaves. This blog might as well praise Rockfellor as Captain Awesome of all Time TM because he used the Chinese slaves in American to build his railroad system.
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RH00D said:
To the two guests before me who felt the need to let out their nerd rage, guess what? This has nothing to do with business practices, or ethics, or whether products were over priced, or whether products were good or bad. This is about **entrepreneurship** and how good each of those people were at it. Steve Jobs was an outstanding entrepreneur, end of story.
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Mmm i'm surprised to see someone like Branson didn't make the cut!
Branson's just about our best card for the UK, and to some degree i think he deserves a place also.
I mean how many billionaires have hit their backside on a window ledge being lowered of a tall building on live TV and laughed about it?...and let's not forget the Only Fools and Horses cameo.
What a guy...
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