: This term describes Jobs’s ability to convince himself and others that the impossible was possible. You can argue that while this led to revolutionary products like the iPhone, it also led to personal denials, such as his initial refusal of conventional cancer treatment.
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During his hiatus from Apple, Jobs acquired Pixar Animation Studios from Lucasfilm and served as its CEO until it was acquired by Disney in 2006. He also founded NeXT, a computer company that developed innovative hardware and software technologies, including the NeXTSTEP operating system and the NeXTcube computer.
Isaacson conducted over 40 exclusive interviews with Steve Jobs himself. Jobs did not request editorial control or even the right to read the manuscript before publication. He famously told Isaacson, “I want my kids to know me. I wasn’t always there for them.”