Based on this article, Lore Harp of Vector doesn’t seem so different from Steve Jobs. She also prioritized design and ease-of-use. She also was an industry outsider with enough charisma to reach national magazine covers.
It’s not like Jobs invented GUIs himself — he happened to be in the right place to learn about all the work already done at Xerox and bring it home. If things had been slightly different, maybe it would have been Lore Harp who went to PARC instead.
The personality cult around famous founders is 99% selection bias. Sure, they were talented. So were hundreds or thousands of others in the same industry.
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Based on this article, Lore Harp of Vector doesn’t seem so different from Steve Jobs. She also prioritized design and ease-of-use. She also was an industry outsider with enough charisma to reach national magazine covers.
It’s not like Jobs invented GUIs himself — he happened to be in the right place to learn about all the work already done at Xerox and bring it home. If things had been slightly different, maybe it would have been Lore Harp who went to PARC instead.
The personality cult around famous founders is 99% selection bias. Sure, they were talented. So were hundreds or thousands of others in the same industry.