American-Canadian mining entrepreneur who was a formative influence on Steve Jobs at Reed College — and who went on to build Ivanhoe Mines into a major mining company — whose 'reality distortion field' personality Jobs reportedly adopted.
Provided the personality model that Steve Jobs absorbed and amplified — Friedland's ability to convince people of things through sheer force of personality and vision, which Walter Isaacson attributes as an early model for Jobs's reality distortion field — making him one of the least-known formative influences on Silicon Valley.
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