How did the Microsoft model differ from Steve Jobs' vision for personal computing?
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Co-Founder & CEO at Perplexity AI
Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. 41.6 Million/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2022
Steve Jobs envisioned computing as something creative, beautiful, and intuitive. Microsoft, by contrast, focused on building a large sales machine. They wanted computers on every desk not to make computing beautiful, but to drive bulk software licenses and scale their business.
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