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Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

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Steve Jobs
Age: 56 †
Born: 1955
Born: February 24
Died: 2011
Died: October 5
Computer Scientist
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Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Film Producer
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San Francisco County
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Steven Paul Jobs
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