Jobs failed multiple times early in his career!

1980: Apple III released, bombs and is killed in 1984

1982: Jobs is kicked out of the Lisa Project, joins the Macintosh project

1984: Mac released. It is overpriced and has tepid sales.

1985: Kicked out of Apple

1989: First NeXT cubes released. They are overpriced and see slow sales

1991: NeXTStation released. NeXT still has tepid sales.

1993: NeXT hardware cancelled, OS ported to multiple other platforms with little success. Only the Intel port survives. Releases OpenStep for Windows.

1996: NeXT is bought by Apple.

For over a decade he had a string of public failures to match every success.

Nowadays Apple hits home run after home run and disrupts multiple industries. Imagine how much he learned from each failure.