RIP Steve Jobs
RIP Steve Jobs
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Gladwell's Outliers: Timing is Almost Everything
The new book offers Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft founder Bill Gates as an example of how a lucky birthdate, among other things, portends success.
Coincidence? Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was born in 1953, Apple (AAPL) founder Steve Jobs in 1955, and Sun Microsystems (SUNW) founders Bill Joy and Scott McNealy in 1954. All of these Silicon Valley pioneers succeeded not just on their extraordinary talent but also because they had the right opportunities at exactly the right time.