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Jobs wrote the Atari game brick breaker. So like Gates, Zuckerberg, and Musk he does have a technical background.



Not really. He was contracted to do it, but subbed all the actual engineering work to Wozniak then essentially lied to Wozniak about how much that work was worth.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)#History_...


My mistake. I was under the impression it was another game, asteroids.


As the story goes, Wozniak was actually the primary (or maybe even sole?) implementer on that project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)#History_...


Pretty sure Woz wrote Breakout, with er ... "assistance" from Jobs.




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