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His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company. Along the way he helped to transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing. He thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators, along with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney. None of these men was a saint, but long after their personalities are forgotten, history will remember how they applied imagination to technology and business.

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A version of this article appeared in the April 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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We talked to former Apple CEO John Sculley about the new Steve Jobs movie, and he said one scene gave him goosebumps

There are two narratives surrounding the new Steve Jobs movie.

Narrative One: Most of the movie pushes the creative license to the extreme, fabricating what happened to Jobs and those around him to the point the story comes off as a tall tale, not something rooted in fact. Viewers will leave the movie with a skewed perception of what Jobs was really like.

Narrative Two: This movie was never intended to be a truthful biopic. Its a characterization of who Steve Jobs was. The facts and events were purposefully fudged to create an entertaining film. Just have fun. Don't take it too seriously.

Narrative Two is how former Apple CEO John Sculley, a major character in the movie played by Jeff Daniels, sees it. In an interview with Tech Insider, Sculley said he enjoyed the movie and sees it purely as entertainment, not a literal representation of what really happ

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Oscar-winning screenwriter, who knew the Apple founder personally, says he's 'seriously considering' adapting Jobs biography

Aaron Sorkin, who brought the story of Facebook's Mark Zuckerbergto the big screen in the Oscar-winning skådespel The Social Network, looks set to tackle another tech innovator with news that he's "strongly considering" an offer to write a biopic about Apple founder Steve Jobs.

Speaking to E! Online, Sorkin – creator of The West Wingand a writer on forthcoming Oscar-tipped Brad Pittdrama Moneyball– said he was currently reading Walter Isaacson's biography of the late Apple co-founder, which studio Sony paid a reported $1m to option gods month.

"Right now I'm just in the thinking-about-it stages," said Sorkin. "It's a really big movie and it's going to be a great movie no matter who writes it. He was a great entrepreneur, he was a great artist, a great thinker. He's probably inspired...

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