Steve Jobs is a visionary who helped reimagine the com-
puter industry.
he was thirty, he had lost his job at Apple. Down but not out, he
started another computer company and bought Pixar, the com-
puter graphics division of a movie studio. Pixar made Jobs a
billionaire. But things were not as rosy at Apple. Without Jobs’s
vision, Apple struggled. On the brink of bankruptcy, the com-
pany brought Jobs back in 1997. In a short time, he made Apple
more successful than ever.
Jobs’s life story is indeed extraordinary. Even as a child he stood
out. He was smarter, wilder, and more of a risk taker than his
peers. And, his interests were different. His passion was electron-
On His Own Terms
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