“I’ve built a lot of my success off finding these truly gifted people and not settling for B and C players but really going for the A players and I found something. I found that when you get enough A players together – when you go through the incredible work to find, you know, five of these A players – they really like working together because they never had a chance to do that before. And they don’t wanna work with B and C players and so it becomes self policing. And they only wanna hire more A players. And so you build up these pockets of A players and it propagates. And that’s what the Mac team was like. They were all A players. And these were extraordinarily talented people. So.” – Steve Jobs, The Lost Interview, on the Mac Team (40:30):

• In 1976, Steve Jobs co-founds Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Wozniack in his parents’ home in Los Altos, California.

• January 30, 1984, Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh at the Boston Computer Society General Meeting, changing computing forever.

• In 1985, Steve Jobs is forced out of Apple after a long power struggle with the company’s board and its then-CEO, John Sculley.

• Apple is 90 days from bankrupcy when Steve Jobs returns to Apple in 1997.

• Steve Jobs saves Apple and then reinvents the phone, introducing the first iPhone on January 9, 2007, thus changing the world, forever.

• The iPhone becomes the most succesful consumer electronics product in history.

• 2.2 billion iPhones are sold, as of Q3 2022.

• Apple Reports 3Q 2022 Results: $19.4B Profit on $83B Revenue

• APPL Market Cap as of 22 Sept 2022: $2.4 Trillion

“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” — Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011, at age 56, of pancreatic cancer.