Transcript
Introduction
"A regular visitor to the Noyce household during this period was an intense and quixotic young man in the midst of a serious life crisis and desperate for help. Steve Jobs has been -- had been the most celebrated young entrepreneur of the age just a few years before. He made the cover of Time magazine before his older and more successful Silicon Valley's counterparts.
And with the Macintosh computer introduced in early 1984, Jobs had become something even more, the embodiment of a new generation. Steve Jobs was driven out of the company he had cofounded and for which he was the most visible face." Jobs then founded a competing company, NeXT." And in case you don't know, I did a long episode on Steve Jobs based on his book. So if you want to find out more, I'd recommend listening to that episode too. "So Jobs founded a company called NeXT, but the company never really gained traction. Jobs was becoming a lost soul and at great risk of ending up while still under 30, a once famous but now largely forgotten Valley figure." This is kind of surprising for those of us in the modern age, at least around my age and arguably younger, the Steve Jobs we may be familiar with is the Steve Jobs after he came back to Apple in '97. So I was born in the '80s.