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Jobs the Jerk

Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the Apple CEO is full of juicy tales about Jobs’ ego, but it doesn’t explain what made him tick. READ MORE »

By |Posted Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, at 6:45 PM ET

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