What Can We Learn From Steve Jobs About Success?

You can think the best or worst of him. You can admire him. You may consider him a top entrepreneur and innovator. We might argue that he was a terrific intimidator with a horrible temperament, but we cannot disagree that Steve Jobs was a visionary.

 

A visionary who founded a company in his garage. Who developed not only the product but also the entire industry and business philosophy? Steve Jobs transformed computers into a product that we now take for granted but without which we cannot live or function.

 

When asked what his greatest accomplishment was, he said, “Apple” and now many business schools and universities across the world study his business philosophy in the hopes of unlocking the key to success and passing it on to future generations.

 

Is there a secret to success, or is it just a myth? Can we memorize the formula and apply it to ourselves? Is it realistic to perfectly replicate another person’s business or life philosophy and expect the same outcomes?

 

There is no simple answer to these questions, but one thing is certain: Steve Jobs altered the world from a garage by founding one of the world’s largest and most powerful enterprises, which made a billion dollars in less than five years of operation.

 

How Jobs managed to create a technological empire called “Apple” and what life principles guided him during its creation, find out by reading below!

 

STEVE’S ROAD TO FOUNDING APPLE

 

Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco on April 24, 1955. His parents put him up for adoption because his mother was too young to keep him. She asked that potential adoptive parents assure her that Steve would have a decent life and a better education. Steve and Clara Jobs, who looked after little Steve, promised her that.

 

That started the narrative of one of the IT industry’s greatest visionaries. His life up to the age of twenty has been straightforward. He went to school despite being bored, according to an interview.

 

He moved to Los Altos after finishing primary school to further his studies.

 

When he meets Bill Fernandez and student Steve Wozniak, who was five years older and would later play a large part in Jobs’ life. Steve gets very interested in electrical engineering.

 

Their friendship began a few years later when Wozniak (or Woz for short) begins to work with blue boxes. Devices that let them “hack” phones and call numbers all around the world for free. Phone phreaks are the term given to such hackers.

 

Then there’s a little interruption when Steve starts at Reed College in Oregon. That lasted just a short time; he soon realized that he had no idea what he wanted out of life and how the university might help him figure it out. He left school but continued to study areas that fascinate him.

 

He quickly found a position at Atari and rekindled his interest in electrical engineering, which he had previously neglected. He was “drawn” by Wozniak’s concept of a revolutionary personal computer that would be available to everyone.

 

It didn’t take long for them to agree to collaborate, and that’s where the tale of the world’s most valuable firms today begins. On April 1, 1976, they formed the business “Apple Computer”. The name was picked by Steve, his favorite fruit at the time was an apple. Jobs persuaded Wozniak that many IT enthusiasts desired a ready-made computer rather than assembling it themselves.

 

Their objective was to create a low-cost computer that geeks of the day could afford. The amount of cash they have invested in the firm is absurd barely $1000.

 

Despite this, they began production of the Apple I computer, which was discovered by Paul Terrel, who quickly purchased 50 units for $25,000.

 

What was Steve Jobs’ role? Because Wozniak was a hardware engineer, he handled the case, and because Steve was neither a hardware nor a programming expert and couldn’t help much, they decided to employ a programmer, and Steve took on a marketing role.

 

That same year, they worked on an Apple II computer, which they displayed at the Atlantic City PC Festival and received a lot of media attention despite competing with the MITS PC, which was a much larger company.

 

Even so, Steve noticed two things. The first was that they had to make a good first impression at the product introduction, and the second was that their Apple II had to be a gadget that didn’t require any peripherals to function.

 

After a few successes and many more failures, the board officially dismisses Jobs and effectively pushed him out of his firm. He failed everything he attempted. His impact was featured on magazine covers, piquing the public’s interest in his invention, which was also beneficial for the Apple II computer.

 

In all other ventures, he did more harm than good, bringing the firm to the brink of bankruptcy. Its worth is dwindling, the finest employees are departing, costs are rising, there is no ROI, and time is running out.

 

NeXT, PIXAR, AND RETURNING TO APPLE

 

Few individuals are aware of or recall what occurred before Jobs’ departure from Apple. Most people connect him with the iPhone and the firm Apple, but his journey was far from smooth.

 

After leaving Apple, Steve launched two additional companies: NeXT and Pixar. NeXT is arguably best known for its operating system NeXTSTEP 486, which was purchased by IBM for their computers, and for the NeXT Cube computer, which did not reach the intended success, leading to the layoff of more than 300 employees and the acquisition of the rest of the firm by Canon.

 

Pixar, his second and more successful firm, sprang to prominence with the release of Toy Story in 1995. Apple acquired NeXT in 1996, and Steve rejoined the company. “We’re not purchasing NeXT, we’re buying Steve,” remarked the then-CEO.

 

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