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Orianna Rosa Royle

Steve Jobs' old intern advises grads to pay to work for impressive people

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Growing up in the city of Kolkata in India, a young Chet Kapoor, now the CEO of data and AI company DataStax, would often turn to the pages of A Little Kingdom, a book about the meteoric rise of Steve Jobs and his enterprise Apple, and dream big.

“I was fascinated. I wanted to work for Steve Jobs,” Kapoor tells Fortune—and that’s exactly what he did.

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