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how checkered his reputation once was. Over the first quarter-century of his career, he was associated with as many failed products as hits. Having been forced out of Apple in 1985, he was associated with failure, period. Even some of his admirers thought of him as the dreamer who'd lost the war for personal-computer dominance to Microsoft's indomitable Bill Gates. Born in 1955 in San Francisco to an unmarried graduate student and adopted at birth by Paul and Clara Jobs, Steven Paul Jobs grew up in Silicon Valley just as it was becoming Silicon Valley. It proved to be a lucky break for everyone concerned. He was only 21 when he started Apple — officially formed on April Fool's Day, 1976 — with his buddy Steve "Woz" Wozniak, a self-taught engineer of rare talents. The name Apple was to remember a happy summer Jobs had spent as an orchard worker in Oregon. But Jobs had already done a lot of living, all of which influenced the company he built. He'd spent one unhappy semester at Reed College in Portland, Ore., and 18 happy months of "dropping in" on Reed classes as he saw fit. He'd found brief employment in low-level jobs at Silicon Valley icons HP and Atari. He'd taken a spiritual journey to India and dabbled (涉猎) with both psychedelic drugs and primal scream therapy. Jobs may have been inspiring, but he was also a high-maintenance co-worker. He dismissed people who didn't impress him. He tormented hapless job candidates and occasionally cried at work. And he was profoundly autocratic (独断专行的).【缺少答案,请补充】
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