How Did Steve Jobs A Historical Risk Taker

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Steve Paul Jobs was a historical risk taker. He was born February 24 1955 in San Francisco. He died on October 5 2011 Palo Alto CA. His parents gave him up for adoption soon after he was born. Steve Jobs was a historical risk taker because he made Apple stores, bought Pixar and he left Apple. Steve Jobs was a risk taker because he opened Apple stores. This was a risk because it was a different kind of store. It cost him a lot of money to make all of stores and even more money to pay the people that worked in the stores. He also needed to buy the land and the buildings. That is why this was a risk Steve Jobs’s second biggest risk was him buying Pixar. At the time Pixar was a small group of engineers but he still bought it. He paid Five million

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