Steve Jobs was one of these people. A clever marketing guy who relied on others for technical heavy lifting.
That's the currently-fashionable revisionist history. But the truth of the matter, from his contemporaries, was that he knew is stuff. He was also good at marketing.
I suggest going back and re-watching some of his presentations,
I suggest going back and re-reading some of the print interviews he gave to technical publications. There's no question he knew what he was talking about.
> But the truth of the matter, from his contemporaries, was that he knew is stuff.
Read anything on folklore.org, and you can see that's not really the case. He prescribes a lot of stuff that they just had to get around, typical pointy haired boss stuff.
That's the currently-fashionable revisionist history. But the truth of the matter, from his contemporaries, was that he knew is stuff. He was also good at marketing.
I suggest going back and re-watching some of his presentations,
I suggest going back and re-reading some of the print interviews he gave to technical publications. There's no question he knew what he was talking about.