Geoffrey Cain

and fight for their ideas and push back and make it the best it could be.

It's like the diamond in the rough that's put together by pressure that becomes this beautiful diamond in the end.

That was his vision for his technology.

But that does not work if you as Steve Jobs simply can't trust anybody to make a decision.

And this is where he went awry during these early years.

He was building a monument to his genius.

He was thinking, how can Steve Jobs make something that will make people respect Steve Jobs?

He was vengeful.

He wanted to get back at Apple for pushing him out.

This was about his ego, and it was about showing the world what he was made of.

Yeah, and I think you just hit the nail on the head.

This was Steve's lowest moment in his entire career.

And the problem that he ran into was getting carried away with his vision.

One of the big lessons he learned during this time was that vision is not enough.

The idea is not enough.

It's the execution that's really everything.

And you can go around with a great idea, and you can add on all this fancy technology.

In this particular case...

Steve started out with a very straightforward advanced computer for university research labs, intelligence agencies, the most advanced of its time.

And he got carried away.