Ask HN: Steve Jobs a product of nature or nurture?

1 pointsby badclientvor 15 Jahren1 comments

The most incredible thing that I find about Steve Jobs is his score in terms of building shit people not only want--but LOVE. He seemed to rarely get it wrong, at least in the past decade.

It often gets me wondering if his taste and sense of market demand was something he was born with OR something he mainly developed through the years.

I honestly don't know where I stand on this. Where does the rest of HN stand on this?

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cprvor 15 Jahren

I wonder if Jobs' main gift wasn't so much figuring out what people want/love (obviously everyone would love unicorn rainbows and time travel using their phone), but figuring out what was just beyond the possible at a given point in that direction, and then pushing his team until they achieved that "next leap."