There's a lot of painful lessons the neckbeards are unwilling to learn, persuasion is well down that list.
Steve Jobs: In the bathroom sink. I shaved it off.
Steve Wozniak: Well, how come?
Steve Jobs: 'Cause banks don't like beards.
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His first TV appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDBiUemCSY
Reportedly, Steve used to be a smelly bearded hippie.