Geoffrey Cain

It's a great place to sell products.

You can update websites instantly with new prices and new products.

It's much more efficient than the old way of sending out catalogs to people.

And I think those kinds of statements, they signify that long view.

And it signifies just what it takes to arrive at the long view, how it's not like there's the big bang of the new device that comes out.

It's all these little problems that are being solved.

And yes,

That was reflected in his personal life, too, his marriage to Lorraine.

He had kids with her.

He also reconciled somewhat with his first daughter, who was estranged for a while.

And having family around, this is the more personal side of Steve Jobs, did tame him and did show him just how winding this road is and how having a group of people around you who support you is so important.

The new peak of new powers, I love that phrase, because that's what it is.

And there were several moments, but one that really stuck out to me that people pointed out was the mentorship of Andy Grove, the Intel co-founder.

Andy had always been close to Steve, had advised him.

Andy was not particularly...

You know, he wasn't known for his empathetic style.

I mean, this was a guy who would just be very terse and tell you, you know, similar to Steve, just tell you you're an idiot and this is stupid.

So it's not surprising that... We all need a mentor like that in our lives.

Yeah, we need somebody to set us straight, get us out of our reality distortion field.

And, you know, Steve would ignore Andy's advice.