I'm dying to know how other tech CEOs rank on your "historical figures ordered by importance" list. Like, do you think Steve Jobs was more or less important then Harriet Tubman?

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kridsdale1 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Globally? Honestly he probably was. Hundreds of millions of people have access to heath and finance resources they wouldn’t have got without the modern smartphone form factor and forced negotiation of unlimited data plans.

Ask someone in Bangladesh who the fuck Harriet Tubman is.

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jcranmer 12 hours ago | parent [-]

AIUI, the rise of mobile telephony in the Third World was driven almost entirely by feature phones, not the kind of smartphones that Jobs helped to drive.

	▲	Schiendelman 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Telephony, yes. The services that are making massive impact now are dependent on smartphones.

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Conscat 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Steve Jobs was just an *sshole boss who abused employees and stole organs. He's not Harriet Tubman.