In September 1997 Steve Jobs walked back into Apple, the company he had started in a garage and been thrown out of twelve years earlier, and found it about ninety days from bankruptcy. This episode follows the whole arc: the blue boxes with Steve Wozniak, the partner who sold ten percent for eight hundred dollars, the Apple II, the Macintosh, the sugared water line, being stripped of every job at thirty, NeXT, the decade paying Pixar's bills until Toy Story, the return, the one hundred and fifty million dollars from Microsoft, and the four products from the iMac to the iPad.
It also covers the iPhone launch, the illness he hid, his death in 2011, and the company as it stands now. Founder Stories tells the story of one founder per episode, told plainly and in order.
