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Steve Jobs Ranked World's 110th Richest Person With Net Worth of $8.3 Billion

Did I miss something?

While everyone is championing Bill Gates' charitable contributions, lets not forget that most of it is being sent overseas, to find the cure for AIDS, etc in Africa. Not exactly giving back to the community that made him wealthy in the first place. (Like Windows or Office users, or the small and big businesses that have been paying to upgrade to fix problem x ad nauseum for decades.

I for one wish Bill would have spend more time making better products instead of helping African nations.
 
BaldiMac said:
That's hilarious logic. Guilty until proven innocent. As pointed out in the article that you posted, anonymous donations would be credible based on what we know about Jobs. He is extremely private about his personal life.
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He basically took in some of the facts that are known about Job, factored them all in, and came to the best logical conclusion.
 
inlovewithi said:
I think I remember pictures of Steve with Bill Gates inside that mansion.

Just read about it on his wikipedia page. Really seems like an ******* move, the fact that he agreed to let a year pass to see if anyone was interested in moving it, and there were people interested in moving it to another spot and he basically killed it for them.
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How did he kill it? Last I read he was literally giving the house away as long as someone would pay for the relocation costs.
 
arizona654 said:
I for one wish Bill would have spend more time making better products instead of helping African nations.
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Yeah because dying children is nothing compared to a new WinMo phone.

NT1440 said:
How did he kill it? Last I read he was literally giving the house away as long as someone would pay for the relocation costs.
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He bought the house with intentions to remodel it but it was going to cost a fortune. He couldn't tear it down because it was a landmark so instead he left it to pretty much die. Once it became to expensive to do anything with it (fix or relocate) he was finally able to do what he wanted to do in 1984, tear it down.
 
greytmom said:
They allege that he reportedly...

Oh yeah, there's a firm statement. LOL
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NT1440 said:
I noticed how you glanced over the "alleged" claim coming from the group trying to save the home. But hey, guilty until proven innocent if it fits your viewpoint right? :rolleyes:
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Look at the timeline - how many years Jobs has been trying to get a permit to destroy that historical house.

Anyway, the house is gone - Jobs' chance to leave the house as a legacy is gone.

NT1440 said:
How did he kill it? Last I read he was literally giving the house away as long as someone would pay for the relocation costs.
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How do you "move" a 14K sq ft plus house?
 
AidenShaw said:
Look at the timeline - how many years Jobs has been trying to get a permit to destroy that historical house.

Anyway, the house is gone - Jobs' chance to leave the house as a legacy is gone.
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A legacy of what exactly? The house was a **** hole. Now he plans on building a much smaller 5,000 square foot minimalist house, probably to retire in.

House relocations aren't all that uncommon. You dismantle, carefully, then ship it elsewhere to be reassembled.

Never watch the history channel? :p

inlovewithi said:
I think I remember pictures of Steve with Bill Gates inside that mansion.
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Just an FYI, that picture was taken at Steve's Palo Alto home.

http://www.edibleapple.com/rare-photo-of-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates/

steve-jobs-bill-gates-1991.jpg
 
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inlovewithi said:
He basically took in some of the facts that are known about Job, factored them all in, and came to the best logical conclusion.
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I'm hoping that was sarcasm, but if not than your logic is just as bad as the guy that I quoted.
 
I expect this is well known, but the Forbes web site finds an interesting link between all these tech billionaires, other than they're filthy rich:
Bill Gates - $56b
Larry Ellison - $39.5b
Michael Dell - $14.6b
Steve Ballmer - $14.5b
Mark Zuckerberg - $13.5b
Paul Allen - $13b
Steve Jobs - $8.3b
Dustin Moskovitz - $2.7b

All University dropouts. Does that mean if I'd dropped out … hmmm.

Also there's Gates + Allen + Ballmer, where's Woz - also a dropout, retired 1987 and presumably enjoying life without the billions.
 
NT1440 said:
A legacy of what exactly? The house was a **** hole. Now he plans on building a much smaller 5,000 square foot minimalist house, probably to retire in.

House relocations aren't all that uncommon. You dismantle, carefully, then ship it elsewhere to be reassembled.

Never watch the history channel? :p
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Start here, and follow the links.

The house was (and the past tense "was" because the turtlenecked overlord has destroyed it) a significant example of the architecture of its time.

A legacy lost - as I said originally. It really doesn't matter if you regard "Spanish Colonial" architecture to be the greatest. Some do, and even if you don't, preserving significant buildings adds to our shared heritage.
 
inlovewithi said:
He basically took in some of the facts that are known about Job, factored them all in, and came to the best logical conclusion.
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You might want to grab a dictionary and look up fact vs. assumption (both were used, which already invalidates the "logic") and then read up on logical.

Slapping logical on instead of opinionated doesn't make it so.

AidenShaw said:
Start here, and follow the links.

The house was (and the past tense "was" because the turtlenecked overlord has destroyed it) a significant example of the architecture of its time.

A legacy lost - as I said originally. It really doesn't matter if you regard "Spanish Colonial" architecture to be the greatest. Some do, and even if you don't, preserving significant buildings adds to our shared heritage.
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What was significant about it? Some old celebrity lived in it? Woo hoo. Why was he allowed to even buy it in the first place when he made it abundantly clear the entire time he was just buying the land?
 
rochford said:
I expect this is well known, but the Forbes web site finds an interesting link between all these tech billionaires, other than they're filthy rich:
Bill Gates - $56b
Larry Ellison - $39.5b
Michael Dell - $14.6b
Steve Ballmer - $14.5b
Mark Zuckerberg - $13.5b
Paul Allen - $13b
Steve Jobs - $8.3b
Dustin Moskovitz - $2.7b

All University dropouts.
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Ballmer graduated (from Harvard where he met Bill and Paul), everyone else is indeed a dropout.

Gates and Allen came from privileged families, met at Lakeside, a Seattle prep school whose tuition was more expensive than Harvard's at the time. Zuckerberg and Moskovitz were also Harvard buddies, there were in decent financial circumstances where they could walk away from Harvard. Dell's family was also well off and his business was already doing quite well when he dropped out.

Ellison and Jobs had very modest family backgrounds and money was an issue. Their stories are the most inspiring because they weren't trust fund babies.
 
rochford said:
I expect this is well known, but the Forbes web site finds an interesting link between all these tech billionaires, other than they're filthy rich:
Bill Gates - $56b
Larry Ellison - $39.5b
Michael Dell - $14.6b
Steve Ballmer - $14.5b
Mark Zuckerberg - $13.5b
Paul Allen - $13b
Steve Jobs - $8.3b
Dustin Moskovitz - $2.7b

All University dropouts. Does that mean if I'd dropped out … hmmm.

Also there's Gates + Allen + Ballmer, where's Woz - also a dropout, retired 1987 and presumably enjoying life without the billions.
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Image what they could have done if they had graduated.
 
AppleScruff1 said:
Image what they could have done if they had graduated.
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Yeah, they could of been flipping burgers at a joint, like the many individuals with degrees are currently doing.

Just shows degrees are not everything. If you have some funds at your disposal (through family in most cases) you can go a long way and be a winner. You need that desire and talent of course.
 
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Literally change the world with technology? Greedy and selfish.

Knock down an uninhabitable eyesore that very few gave a rat's behind about? Legacy Destroyer.

Perspective? Priceless.
 
AppleScruff1 said:
Image what they could have done if they had graduated.
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Probably far less.

Most of them dropped out because they were at a pivotal moment, and an opportunity presented itself. If they had waited until graduation, that window of opportunity could have closed.

Ballmer completed his undergraduate work, then dropped out of Harvard's business school to join his buddies at Microsoft as its first business manager. If he had insisted to finish his MBA, they probably would have hired someone else.
 
cvaldes said:
Probably far less.

Most of them dropped out because they were at a pivotal moment, and an opportunity presented itself. If they had waited until graduation, that window of opportunity could have closed.

Ballmer completed his undergraduate work, then dropped out of Harvard's business school to join his buddies at Microsoft as its first business manager. If he had insisted to finish his MBA, they probably would have hired someone else.
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I thought my sarcasm would be obvious.
 
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