One of Jobs鈥檚 great strengths was knowing how to focus. Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do,鈥� he said. That鈥檚 true for companies, and it鈥檚 true for products.鈥�

Lasseter began to get worried when, in early 1996, he heard rumors that DreamWorks might be making its own computer-animated movie about ants. He called Katzenberg and asked him point-blank. Katzenberg hemmed, hawed, and asked where Lasseter had heard that. Lasseter asked again, and Katzenberg admitted it was true. How could you?鈥� yelled Lasseter, who very rarely raised his voice.

After a while their relationship frayed, and they returned from India separately. By the summer of 1977 Brennan had moved back to Los Altos, where she lived for a while in a tent on the grounds of Kobun Chino鈥檚 Zen center. By this time Jobs had moved out of his parents鈥� house and was renting a 0 per month suburban ranch house in Cupertino with Daniel Kottke. It was an odd scene of free-spirited hippie types living in a tract house they dubbed Rancho Suburbia. It was a four-bedroom house, and we occasionally rented one of the bedrooms out to all sorts of crazy people, including a stripper for a while,鈥� recalled Jobs. Kottke couldn鈥檛 quite figure out why Jobs had not just gotten his own house, which he could have afforded by then. I think he just wanted to have a roommate,鈥� Kottke speculated.