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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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