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How did tech monster Apple travel from a suburban garage to global supremacy?

Stream Steve Jobs - Billion Dollar Hippy on BBC Select

How much of Apple’s dominance in the tech world is down to the personality of its controversial founder Steve Jobs?

The man was a mass of contradictions, mixing hippy cool with intense ambition, driving those around him passionately to greater achievements.

This Steve Jobs documentary tells the extraordinary story of Apple’s rise, fall and rise again, and tries to decode how this company wields such power.

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