Steve Jobs
This time the rumors weren't exaggerated. My dad called me while I was boarding my plane to San Francisco to tell me that Steve died. It was the right way to get bad news. Steve taught us that the things we make reflect the people we are. He taught us to care deeply about the things we do, and the people those things impact. He brought craftsmanship to world-scale production. Steve Jobs made me a better person. He made a lot of my friends better people. And he helped us find each other and come together around a set of values that may have been forgotten without him.