Why exactly should Steve Jobs be on a stamp?
This gives me an idea, Post Office should sell application fees for stamp ideas like license plates to fund their insane retirement plan requirements.
But then we might end up with confederate flag stamps like Georgia plates.
Of course you can print almost anything as your own stamps legally now. And in the end I think people spend a whole second if any time at all looking at a stamp.
Iconic figure of the late 20th/early 21st century IT revolution?
Led a company that was involved in multiple hugely-successful, era-defining products (the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad) along with many industry leading products (the Macbook Air and iMac to name but two)?
Had a unique management style - I don't mean the unpleasantness, I mean the laser-sharp focus on a few product categories and on pushing smart people to deliver amazing things that even they didn't think they could deliver - a management style which everyone tries to emulate in some ways these days...?
Founded, built up, was kicked out of, came back into and rescued what became for a little while the most valuable company in the world by market cap?
Any of the above is reason enough for a postage stamp, of all things. All of them together seem to make it a no-brainer.
And yes, Bill Gates no doubt deserves a postage stamp too - but I'd argue it's for his relentless delivery of Microsoft's mission: a computer on every desk and in every home. They achieved it and they changed the world with that.