Steve Jobs revolutionized five industries by seeing connections between unrelated things. His college calligraphy class inspired beautiful computer fonts. Carmine Gallo argues that Jobs' varied experiences let him spot patterns others missed.
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Steve Jobs is the only entrepreneur I can think of that revolutionized five different industries in his lifetime, which is kind of mind blowing when you think about it. He revolutionized the computer industry. He revolutionized the phone industry. He revolutionized the music industry, the movie industry, and the tablet industry. Revolutionized them, like, totally turned them on their heads. And Carmine Gallo said the reason he was able to do that is because he had so many unique, broad experiences that he could see the connection between seemingly unrelated things. So when he looked at his computer and he saw the ugly green blinking font on a dark background on a computer screen, he said, these fonts are ugly. But he took a calligraphy class when he was in college. He said, why don't we make fonts beautiful? And it's that kind of connection that changed everything for him. So.