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Steve Jobs’ intern went on to sell his company to Google for $625 million—he now advises grads to pay to work for impressive people
Yahoo Finance·2025-09-22 18:03

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. His first order of business was moving from India to the States in 1983 before taking on “a bunch of computer classes” to prime himself for any role in the ...