I never knew him, but the Isaacson book claimed one of the reasons he was able to take a risk with apple was that he knew he had coding as a fallback, as he was a decent coder at Atari
"Steve didn't ever code. He wasn't an engineer and he didn't do any original design, but he was technical enough to alter and change and add to other designs." -Woz
Read the text in front of you, on your computer screen. Note the word "code":
>> I am starting to think, rightly so, that if you don't code ... you have no business starting a tech company.
>> Counterexample: Steve Jobs.
> Sure, he didn't know as much as Woz but still brought a lot to the table.
Wake up and smell the Cappuccino -- the topic is whether Jobs could code. Jobs could not code. End of story.
I speak as someone who knew Jobs personally, and who (along with everyone else) noticed that he couldn't code.