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What do you do when the company you built kicks you out? If you’re Steve Jobs, you come back and make it better than ever. Trouble in Paradise By the mid-1980s, Apple was one of the most exciting companies in the world. The Apple II was a massive hit. And in 1984, Apple launched the Macintosh — with one of the most famous product launches ever. On stage, Steve Jobs pulled a small beige computer out of a bag, and it spoke. “Hello,” the Macintosh said in a robotic voice. “I’m Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag.” The audience went wild. No computer had ever introduced itself before. ...

What happens when two kids who love building things meet — and decide to change the world from a tiny garage? The Kid Who Was Different Steve Jobs was a kid who couldn’t stop asking questions. He wanted to know how everything worked — why TVs glowed, how radios picked up sound, what made machines tick. He was wildly curious about how things worked — especially electronics. Growing up in Mountain View, California, right in the heart of what would become Silicon Valley, he was surrounded by engineers and tinkerers. His dad, Paul Jobs, had a workbench in the garage where he fixed cars and built things. Steve watched. ...