Jobs died on October 5, 2011 at age 56, and a biography by Walter Isaacson was published three weeks later, quickly becoming a bestseller. The book emphasizes Apple’s founding in 1976, when Jobs and Steve Wozniak started with $1,300 from a garage in Los Altos, California. Wozniak is portrayed as technically brilliant and behind the scenes, while Jobs is portrayed as managing business strategy and marketing vision focused on producing the first packaged personal computer. Apple went public in December 1980 and was valued at $1.79bn. In 1983 Jobs recruited John Sculley, who ousted Jobs in 1985, after which Jobs recovered over 12 years. Jobs then founded NeXT in 1985 to build a highly powerful supercomputer for elite universities, aiming to shape history through advanced technology.
"Later in 1985, Jobs founded a new company, NeXT. His initial aim was to build a state-of-the-art 3M supercomputer for elite universities. Jobs promised to create "a machine 10 to 20 times more powerful" than anything then available on the market. In the hands of Nobel laureates, Jobs believed this would help him "fulfil his lifelong dream of shaping the course of history," Cain writes."
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