The Steve Jobs Way

The Steve Jobs Way

Jay Elliot

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In the pages I have read in the past week I have discovered Steve Jobs was actually kicked out of his own company. John Sculley, the famous chairman of the board who used to work for Pepsi fired him. John Sculley was convinced to join Apple through this statement from Steve, "would you like to sell sell sugar water to kids for the rest of your life, or make a difference?" Anyway, Steve left the company with 200 million dollars in hand, and no clue what to do. He told himself he would travel the world and a few months later founded the company, NEXT. This was a specialist company, who where designing powerful computers for education and university. These computers where not however designed to be very accessible to the public, with their variety of features, their prices where in the six digit range.When Steve finally returned to his company, that was driving itself into the ground, he also brought along all of the file sharing, innovative software back to Apple. This was ten years later. This software was then used for the popular music player iTunes and iCloud as well.

I think the great human path is very simple, it's to selflessly devote yourself to what you believe in and stick to it. Don't follow the path of greed. 

Steve Jobs grew up in California and was very rebellious  As an ambitious adolescent he met up with Wozniac and designed the first Apple computer, the Apple 1. He took this and showed it to a small group of computer enthusiasts and they where impressed. As a fun joke the partners would have would be to hack the phones and make around the world calls, free of charge. As a university student he studied calligraphy  which influenced the abundance of fonts in the first Mac. He was a also a very spiritual man, a Buddhist and a Hippie.

All of these attributes above came together, both spiritual parts of him and hard working parts of him to create the mac. Steve learned through Buddhism about perfection and how to achieve the closest thing to it, this can be seen in his products today. He also devoted himself selflessly to a brighter future. With easy to use computers ruling the market.