Of all the people you'd compare Steve Jobs to, surely Leonardo DaVinci is not the first to come to mind. However, that's not a bad comparison because, after all, Jobs is as much of an innovator for the world of technology--especially mobile technology--as DaVinci was during the Renaissance Era.
Softbank CEO, Masayoshi Son, actually made this comparison after becoming entirely smitten with the Apple co-founder's achievements.
"Hundreds of years from now, Leonardo DaVinci and Steve Jobs will be held in the same high regard," he said. "[Jobs] doesn't see his products as just a product. It's as if they are his artwork or something that embodies his very own life." 
Anyone see the resemblance?
Son even mentions that even though the Apple CEO isn't entirely healed from his battle with pancreatic cancer and liver transplant, he's still back at work and running the show as if "laser beams were coming out of his eyes."
Well, we definitely agree with Son in that Jobs is a Renaissance Man in that his innovations have evolved as technology progressed. But, as far as having laser coming out of his eyes…isn't that something that should be reserved for an Internet meme? 
Hmm...
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drmnez
June 25, 2010 at 12:34pm
just cuz you are ceo doesn't mean you had anything to do with the ideas or creations of your companies products.
jobs may just be overseeing and may not be involved much.
disagree? wheres your proof?
Pierce
June 26, 2010 at 10:02am
You wouldn't be the CEO of a company if you didn't want to be involved, founders of companies care about their products (unless they r cheap knock offs), and steve definitely takes it further. I know a man (though I forget his name :( cuz I haven't seen him in two years) who used to be the vice president of some apple department or something, and he told me stories of jobs demanding for something to be in a product, and when they told him they couldn't do it, he went out and discovered how to do it himself. He's different than any other CEO. He also told me a story where he had a flash of genius, and because it was so hot in Cupertino, he had the meeting in a washroom and stood in a toilet to cool his feet. Although he is very very weird, he is very revolutionary (not that you haven't heard that before) and has almost EVERYTHING to do with his products. He left apple, apple sank.... Then he came back and profits rose substantially. He doesn't oversee, he's not involved, his employees are involved with him.
