Steve Jobs was hot.

The year was 1995. Jobs was CEO of Pixar, an upstart animation company that was making huge gains in the graphics industry. Jobs and his mentor, Intel CEO Andy Grove, had been discussing how Intel might benefit from Pixar's learnings. But when an Intel engineer sent Jobs an email to follow up, Jobs suggested that Intel should pay for this privileged information. (The email exchange can be found in the new book Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words,recently published by the Steve Jobs Archive.)