Inventor Visionary Genius Dropout Adopted Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple & he was all of these things Steve Jobs has been described as a showman artist tyrant genius jerk Through his life he was loved hated admired & dismissed yet he was a living legend; the genius who founded Apple in his parent's garage when he was just 21 years-old revolutionising the music world He single-handedly introduced the first computer that could sit on your desk & founded & nurtured a company called Pixar bringing to life Oscar wining animations Toy Story & Finding Nemo So how did the man who was neither engineer nor computer geek change the world we live in making us want every single product he touched? On graduation day in 2005 a fifty-year-old Steve Jobs said ' Today I want to tell you three stories from my life That's it Just three stories' The first story is about connecting the dots My second story is about love & loss My third story is about death This is his story Critically acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal takes us to the core of this complicated & legendary man from his adoption & early years through to the pinnacles of his career his dismissal from his duties at Apple (for being too disruptive & difficult) to the graduation where he gave the commencement speech just 6 years before his death giving life to what were soon to become some of most famous"es of his career ending with the message Stay Hungry Stay Foolish & I have always wished that for myself & now as you graduate to begin anew I wish that for you Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life