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Apple fired Steve Jobs at 30, and he sold every Apple share he owned except one. That last share let him keep going to the shareholder meetings. In 1985 the board sided with John Sculley, the CEO Jobs had brought in himself. "What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating," he said years later. In 2016, Business Insider calculated the stake he sold would have been worth about $66 billion. So he started over. He founded NeXT, and for $5 million he bought a small graphics unit from George Lucas called Pixar. In 1995 Pixar released Toy Story and went public, which made Jobs a billionaire. A year later Apple was losing money and bought NeXT for about $400 million. Jobs came back with the deal and soon ran the company again. In 2006 Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 billion. Jobs ended up with almost 8% of Disney, the largest individual stake in the company. "Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me."