E37 - #36 Becoming Steve Jobs - The Long Journey to Greatness

Today, I am sharing what I learned by reading the book Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli,  a book written by a journalist who knew Steve for 25 years, and the one that finally gets at the part of the story most people skip: the twenty years of failure in the middle.

We start at a workbench in a Mountain View garage, where a father named Paul Jobs clears a section and tells his five-year-old son, "Steve, this is your workbench now." That single afternoon shows up decades later inside a NeXT computer, where Steve f...