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Eight Revelations from the Steve Jobs Movie Trailer

In the end, he found success because he remained true to himself.

The trailer for Jobs, in which Ashton Kutcher plays the departed tech visionary, just dropped today. It'd be easy to write it off as a cloying ploy to suck even more cash out of the locally-tailored pockets of the iCult—the same criticism some applied to that giant biography they used to sell as Costco—but it's an important biopic simply because Steve Jobs was one of the most visible, influential leaders in American business.

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Will it do a good job portraying Jobs? I've no idea, as I didn't know the man. But after watching the trailer, which is chock full of revelations, I feel just one step closer to his ghost. Let me share some tidbits you may have never known:

Jobs's secret sauce to making computers: dropping out of school and talking to girls

He rebelled against stuffy old business practices by firing people at a whim

He was really angry all the time

He could read computer code like they do in the Matrix

After leaving Apple he lived in India for 10 years, which bummed out his daughter

Through it all, he remained convinced that "all these computers really mean something, you know?" and that life should be one big indie rock video

He convinced a lot of other people, including people paid to pay attention to him, that it all "meant something" too, and that is why he became very rich

In the end, he found success because he remained true to himself

@derektmead