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#36 Becoming Steve Jobs - The Long Journey to Greatness

Podcast: Deeply Driven | Business History & Entrepreneur Stories
Published: Aug 4, 2026
Duration seconds: 8244
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The Steve Jobs story most people know skips the twenty years of failure in the middle. Using Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli's Becoming Steve Jobs, we walk through the 5-year-old at his workbench, the firing, NeXT, Pixar, and the return to Apple, and we pull out the lessons worth applying to your own business.