Blazing the Path to the Largest Company in the World
Steve Jobs is a very well-known American icon, a trailblazer...
such a rebel that his very existence challenged the rules of his day.
He was born an illegitimate child of an American graduate student and a Syrian Muslim.
With the views and beliefs of most people in that day, many mother's in Joanne Simpson's position would have had an abortion to avoid the stigmata that came with having a child out of wedlock.
The world is indeed blessed that she did not choose to take that path.
Jobs's biological mother had only one requirement of the people who would raise her son.
She wanted him to have the chance to become great...
she wanted him to have a college education.
Paul and Clara Jobs were the couple who adopted him, and gave him his name, Steven Paul Jobs.
Ironically, neither of them had been to college.
Despite his biological mother's demands, Steve acted in another of many acts of rebellion and dropped out of school after only one semester at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
But dropping out did not keep him from learning the skills he needed to become one of the most well-known entrepreneurs in the world.
Jobs sat in on many college classes, sleeping on the floors of his friends' dorms.
After moving back to California, Jobs began to go to meetings of the "Homebrew Computer Club" with Steve Wosniak, whom he had worked with during his summers in high school.
Although Jobs worked for Atari, and Wosniak for Hewlett-Packard, the two soon decided to go into business together.
In true renegade style, the two men founded Apple Inc in the garage of Jobs's parents' home, on April Fool's Day.
Apple recently became the largest company in the world, in terms of market value.
So an illegitimate, adopted child, whose biological parents' only rule for him was to finish college, drops out of college, starts a business in the home of his adoptive parents garage on April Fool's Day, names it "Apple," (which had nothing to do with computers at the time) and turns that business into the largest company in the entire world.
Then uses that business to blaze the path by which everyone else struggled to travel.
Well, played, Steve Jobs, well played.
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes...
the ones who see things differently--they're not fond of rules...
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things...
they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
" - Steve Jobs
such a rebel that his very existence challenged the rules of his day.
He was born an illegitimate child of an American graduate student and a Syrian Muslim.
With the views and beliefs of most people in that day, many mother's in Joanne Simpson's position would have had an abortion to avoid the stigmata that came with having a child out of wedlock.
The world is indeed blessed that she did not choose to take that path.
Jobs's biological mother had only one requirement of the people who would raise her son.
She wanted him to have the chance to become great...
she wanted him to have a college education.
Paul and Clara Jobs were the couple who adopted him, and gave him his name, Steven Paul Jobs.
Ironically, neither of them had been to college.
Despite his biological mother's demands, Steve acted in another of many acts of rebellion and dropped out of school after only one semester at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
But dropping out did not keep him from learning the skills he needed to become one of the most well-known entrepreneurs in the world.
Jobs sat in on many college classes, sleeping on the floors of his friends' dorms.
After moving back to California, Jobs began to go to meetings of the "Homebrew Computer Club" with Steve Wosniak, whom he had worked with during his summers in high school.
Although Jobs worked for Atari, and Wosniak for Hewlett-Packard, the two soon decided to go into business together.
In true renegade style, the two men founded Apple Inc in the garage of Jobs's parents' home, on April Fool's Day.
Apple recently became the largest company in the world, in terms of market value.
So an illegitimate, adopted child, whose biological parents' only rule for him was to finish college, drops out of college, starts a business in the home of his adoptive parents garage on April Fool's Day, names it "Apple," (which had nothing to do with computers at the time) and turns that business into the largest company in the entire world.
Then uses that business to blaze the path by which everyone else struggled to travel.
Well, played, Steve Jobs, well played.
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes...
the ones who see things differently--they're not fond of rules...
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things...
they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
" - Steve Jobs
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