The Financial Times has named Apple (AAPL) CEO the “Person of the Year”, calling him “the most remarkable comeback in modern business history”. The FT quotes F. Scott Fitzgerald saying that there are no second acts in American business and if there was one none cme more decisively than Mr. Jobs.

The FT gave Steve Jobs the honorific that TIME Magazine never did, which it incidentally gave to Mark Zuckerberg for 2010. During Steve Jobs first act he was younger than Mark Zuckerberg and became the tech industry’s first rock star when he took Apple public at age 25. Here is the original:

A rebuttal of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s much-quoted aphorism that there are no second acts in American life does not come more decisively than this. When Steven Paul Jobs first hit the headlines, he was younger even than Mark Zuckerberg is now. Long before it was cool to be a nerd, his formative role in popularising the personal computer, and Apple’s initial public offering on Wall Street – which came when Mr Jobs was still only 25 – made him the tech industry’s first rock star.

Now, three decades on, he has secured his place in the foremost ranks of the West Coast tech titans who have done so much to shape the world around the turn of the millennium. Long-time nemesis Bill Gates may be richer and, at his peak, arguably exerted greater sway, thanks to his monopoly over the world’s PC software. But the Microsoft co-founder has left the stage to devote his life and fortune to good works. It is Mr Jobs who now holds the spotlight.