Steve Jobs was adopted, dropped out of college, was fired from the company he founded, and came back to build the most valuable corporation in history. He did not invent the personal computer, the smartphone, or the music player — he reinvented them with a design obsession and a “reality distortion field” so powerful that engineers regularly accomplished things they believed were impossible, simply because Jobs told them they could.

This episode traces Jobs from his adoption and garage startup through the founding of Apple, the exile at NeXT and Pixar, the triumphant return, and the iPhone revolution that reshaped daily life worldwide.

• The adoption, the Reed College dropout, and the calligraphy class that shaped Apple’s design DNA
• The founding of Apple, the Macintosh, and the boardroom coup that exiled him from his own company
• The wilderness years at NeXT and Pixar that made him a better leader
• The return to Apple, the iPod-iPhone-iPad revolution, and his death from cancer at fifty-six