![]() Through the years, Jobs’ companies have blossomed thanks to the brilliant people he’s brought on board – like Apple CEO Tim Cook and Pixar CCO (Chief Creative Officer) John Lasseter. Apple would have had no chance if Jobs was the only one building the computers. Steve Jobs wasn’t a great computer engineer. Travel has a way of broadening a person’s perspective and expanding their sense of what’s possible – good traits in an entrepreneur. The year before he founded Apple, Jobs journeyed to India. He co-founded Apple Computer that year instead. If Jobs hadn’t dropped out, he would have been a junior in 1975. Reed University was expensive and Jobs didn’t want to drain his parents’ savings. “If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.” #6 …But it’s Not Necessary Jobs credits a college calligraphy course for part of the Macintosh’s development: #5 College is Important…Īt its best, higher education challenges us to make connections and solve problems. It also helps that he started Apple in his early 20’s: when he was still full of energy, fresh ideas, and not yet restrained by a family or career. #4 Start Earlyīecause Steve was still a sponge-brained teenager when he started working with computers, he learned quickly. He saw what these companies were doing and learned what he wanted to do differently with Apple. Before turning 21, Steve had worked for both HP and Atari. In high school, Jobs attended lectures at a small computer technology company called Hewlett-Packard. Tough break? Young Jobs didn’t think so: he was thankful for his loving adoptive parents - who happened to live in Palo Alto, California (which would eventually become Silicon Valley). Steve started life out on the wrong foot. Steve’s ability to anticipate future trends helped Apple dominate now-burgeoning markets like digital music sales (through the iPod and iTunes Store). ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. In 2007, Steve Jobs said, “There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. Life Advice From Steve Jobs #1 Skate to Where the Puck is Going to Be ![]() We can’t all be Steve Jobs, but we can all learn from his extraordinary life. Steve Jobs will be remembered as a digital visionary - the man who brought poetry to the microchip.īut before he was a legend, he was a person.
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