Steve Jobs is 54

John Biggs

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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009


Happy happy! Safari is 4 and Steve Jobs is 54. The beloved head of Apple is eleven years away from retirement (hang in there!) and hopefully he’s going to make it through to another 54 years – he’s probably got a great health plan, after all.

All kidding aside, it’s rare to find such a galvanizing figure in business. When they write the business history of the 20th and 21st centuries, expect him and Bill Gates to be in there – everyone else is just a footnote.

Fortune brings up his Stanford commencement address:

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