When Steve Jobs Grew Up

When Steve Jobs Grew Up

Once upon a time, Steve Jobs told me that he didn’t like to think of himself as a businessman. Rather, he said, he thought of himself as a creative person—“a person who builds neat things.”It was the fall of 1986, and he was reflecting on his self-identity as we were driving in his Mercedes coupe from Palo Alto to San Francisco. He was 31 years old at the time. The year before, he had lost a power struggle inside Apple and left the company. When…