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I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.

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Alex Gibney
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: October 23
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New York City
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