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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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
