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It is true that Steve Jobs left Apple at the age of 30 after a famous power struggle 37. In 1985, the Apple board of directors ultimately sided with John Sculley, the CEO who had been hired from Pepsi, leading to Jobs being stripped of his command over the Macintosh group 39. While there is some debate over the technicality—Sculley later claimed Jobs was never fired but rather took a sabbatical 26—Steve Jobs himself publicly described the experience as getting fired, noting that at 30 years old, he was very publicly out 5. Official archives record that while his departure was technically a resignation, Jobs personally considered it a firing after losing the board's support 810. After being ousted, he famously returned 11 years later to lead the company again 4.