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Date: 21st March 2010 |
Compiled by: M Sathya Kumar |
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When Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in His mother felt very strongly that he should be adopted by
college graduates and when she found out that both his future parents had
never graduated from colleges, she refused to sign the adoption papers. She
only relented a few months later when his future parents promised that they
would send Jobs to college. He went to college but decided to drop out because it was too
expensive. Recalling his time there he said, I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in
friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food
with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one
good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. Jobs and Apple At 20, he and a friend (Steve Wozniak) started a company in a
garage on April 1, 1976. Later that year, the duo debuted the Apple I at the
Homebrew Computer Club in Jobs named their company – Apple in memory of a happy
summer he had spent as an orchard worker in By 1982 however, his company sales sagged in the face of
competition from IBM’s new PC. Jobs and Wozniak unveiled their new
creation, Lisa to increase the company’s bottom line, only to be
another expensive failure. Not wanting to dwell on these successive failures, they worked
on a new machine called the Macintosh. Jobs was reported to commandeered the
project, ruthlessly pushing its computer engineers and flying a pirate flag
above the building where the team worked. By 1986 the Mac, which Jobs promised to be ‘insanely
great’ was a huge success. After
10 years, starting from 2 kids working in a garage, Apple
computer had grown into a $2 billion dollar company with over 4000 employees. At 30 Jobs, however, was fired from the company he co-founded
with Steve Wozniak. He left the company after losing a bitter battle over
control with Apple’s CEO John Sculley (whom Jobs had recruited from
Pepsi Cola). After Apple Apparently both have different views of how the company should
be handled and in one meeting Sculley had told security analysts in a meeting
that Jobs would have no role in the operations of the company “now or
in the future.” When Jobs heard of the message he said,
“You’ve probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it
knocks the wind out you and you cannot breathe. The harder you try to
breathe, the more you cannot breathe. And you know that the only thing you
can do is just relax so you can start breathing again.” Jobs sold over $20 million of his Apple stock, spent days
bicycling along the beach, feeling sad and lost, toured Recalling this publicly heartbreaking episode Jobs said, ‘I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that
getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to
me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being
a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the
most creative periods of my life.’ During the next five years he started two companies –
NeXTStep and Pixar. NeXTStep which produces NeXT, $9,995 cube-shaped workstation
which aimed to create a workstation for research and higher, didn’t do
as well as Jobs had dreamed for. It did poorly and Jobs pulled the plug in
1993. Pixar, however was a success story. The company started the
first computer-animated film, the Toy Story and when Pixar’s stock went
public, Jobs became an instant billionaire. Jobs, back with a vengeance Meanwhile, his old company, Apple was under immense pressure
from rival Microsoft and in 1996 posted billions of dollars in losses. In
December 1996 Jobs convinced Apple to buy NeXT and make its software the
foundation of the next-generation Mac OS. The technology he developed at NeXT
became the catalyst of Apple’s comeback. Initially appointed as
Apple’s adviser, Steve Jobs was named Apple’s interim CEO in
1997. In
2004 he was diagnosed with cancer on his pancreas. Jobs was told that the
cancer was incurable and he would only live for another three to six months.
Later, a biopsy showed that he actually had a very rare form of pancreatic
cancer that is curable with surgery. He had the surgery and survives. Under
his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced innovations
such as the iPod. Steve
Jobs advice Sometimes
life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m
convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as
it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great
work. And
the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t
found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the
heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship,
it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until
you find it. Don’t settle. Your time
is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other
people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions
drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to
follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly
want to become. Everything else is secondary. |
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