What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success

The Knowledge Project: A Farnam Street Podcast by Shane Parrish

Sep 1, 202663:52Business

We all know the Steve Jobs who came back in the late 1990s and saved Apple from becoming a footnote. And we've all heard the story of how, in 1985, he was pushed out of the company he'd created. What we don't know is wha...

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