Steve Jobs

L: Steve Jobs. R: Bill Gates
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Bill Gates says Steve Jobs told him he should’ve taken acid as it would have made Microsoft’s products look better

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January 1, 2026
Melinda French Gates
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Melinda French Gates got her start at Microsoft because an IBM hiring manager told her to turn down its job offer—’It dumbfounded me’

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December 31, 2025
Late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen to raise $1,300 for Apple’s first computer. He became a millionaire just two years later at 23

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December 19, 2025
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne's signatures on the bottom of Apple's founding contract.
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Apple cofounder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976—today it’d be worth up to $400 billion

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December 12, 2025
Late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs
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Apple’s Steve Jobs told students to never ‘settle’ in their careers: ‘If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking’

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December 11, 2025
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AI

Time names ‘Architects of AI’ as its 2025 Person of the Year, a year when the tech’s ‘full potential roared into view’

By Mike Catalini and The Associated Press
December 11, 2025
Mickey Drexler speaks on stage
Leadership

Steve Jobs taught Gap’s former CEO that micromanaging can be a good thing

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November 28, 2025
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Innovation

Sam Altman says OpenAI’s first device is iPhone-level revolutionary but brings ‘peace and calm’ instead of ‘unsettling’ flashing lights and notifications

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November 25, 2025
Jerry Garcia
C-Suite

What every CEO should learn from Jerry Garcia 

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November 25, 2025
Apple is ramping up succession plans for CEO Tim Cook, a Friday report says.
Big Tech

Apple is ramping up succession plans for CEO Tim Cook and may tap this hardware exec to take over, report says

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November 15, 2025
Steve Jobs giving an Apple presentation in his iconic black turtleneck
Innovation

Apple is now selling a $150 sling for your iPhone made by the same designer who created Steve Jobs’ iconic black turtleneck

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November 11, 2025
Steve Jobs at Macworld in 2008
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Steve Jobs didn’t take Warren Buffett’s financial advice to buy back Apple stock, and it says a lot about his leadership style

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November 10, 2025
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Newsletters

Fortune Archives: The journalist Steve Jobs opened up to

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October 26, 2025
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Corning CEO says Steve Jobs pressured him into making all the screens for the first iPhone: ‘Do you know what your biggest problem is? You’re afraid’

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October 23, 2025
Corning CEO Wendell Weeks.
C-Suite

Corning CEO says Jeff Bezos taught him that creating value is less about overcoming failure than, ‘if something is working, double down on it’

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October 22, 2025

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