What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success

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0:00That is Steve Jobs at Rock Bottom, and that is a Steve Jobs that we've almost never seen before.

0:05And he was very close to being completely forgotten and written out of history.

0:16Everybody knows about Steve Jobs legend, the myth, the man who shows us the future, but very few people see this period where he walks through the wilderness and fails over and over again.

0:29And I want to talk about that with you today.

0:31Looking forward to it, Shane.

0:32I think the right place to start is leading up to the original, I wouldn't say firing, but the original leaving from Apple and the coup attempt with Scully.

0:43And can you walk me through sort of what happened in the year or two leading up to that that led to that?

0:51Steve Jobs was a brilliant young man.

0:54He was a visionary.

0:55He co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in his garage.

0:58And in 1984, he released the Macintosh computer.

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