didymus and co.
your ignorance is beyond belief. Last time I checked apple is the biggest tech company in the world sitting on 150 bil cash and just before job became interim CEO again, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. Had steve not, sold apple stocks, he would have ended up as the richest person ever alive, just before he death( he sold all but one when he quit apple first time).
He still left most of money on the table.
Steve job is one of the greatest thinker, visionary and innovator in the history of mankind! And he proved that you do not need degrees and phd's to get it done. What you do need is passion and perseverance.
He demanded the best and expected, you to get the job done if you are man enough and the rewards were plenty once it got done.
If he was not such a great leader or a manager then, no body would be working in apple!people queue up to work at apple. Have you checked the facts?
Have you asked steve waznik, what it meant to work with steve? I do not think he has shown him in the negative ever! How about asking, bill gates himself, who has had worked 4 years with apple and also a brutal adversary in the same field. And guess what? he also happen to be the man who gave the apple the second lease of life( he did for the betterment of industry. He admired steve jobs;check the interview on you tube).
I agree he could be hard to work with and can be a serious smug. but that was needed for a reason. By being nice nothing happened easy. It was needed to go to that extra mile.
He did make some mistakes with personal no doubt and had his glitches and that what really makes him a flawed genius, but a great one nevertheless!
There is no free lunch in america. In order to do what others did not do, you have to go extra mile and there is no room to be nice. He led from the front.
He was quite young at that time but he learnt his lessons, very well in the second coming and we all saw the results!
He catapulted apple to number 1 within a decades time at an astonishing clip!
putting down an american icon shows, how less you know about the man.
I have done a decade of start up work day n night, right in the heart of bay area and I exactly know what is cooking there and what it takes to get it done!
As such there is no blue print! But there is plenty of jobs print!
They might have not done justice in this movie( looks like they did not show his trails and tribulation and what made him the man behind the veneer!)
There is nothing like the icon 'steve jobs' period!
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jdiliddo
12 years ago
I agree with you Sanjay_kn. Not your grammar, but your tone. ;)
The people on this board complaining about Steve jobs would probably be the people he would have fired first due to their lack of vision. They seem like a bunch of jealous children.
I think the Bill Gates would be an interesting one as well. As Jobs was trying to build something new and innovative, Gates was back-stabbing his way to the top. Granted we got the Gates Foundation in the end and I certainly wouldn't play down the important work they have done. But if Steve Jobs can be considered the Da Vinci of our generation, Gates can be considered the Andrew Carnegie of the same. If you know your history they both had flaws but eventually changed the world for the better.
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fillshertease
11 years ago
"...Gates was back-stabbing his way to the top..."
Wow - talk about being completely clueless! Bill Gates had more vision in the tip of his pinkie that Steve Jobs had in his whole body. While Steve Jobs was stealing other people's ideas, Bill Gates was building the world the way he and he alone saw it. He tried - countless times - to give other people the opportunity to go along for the ride but none of them had his vision so he had to do it himself. Thanks to Bill Gates everyone now has a computer. If it had been left to Steve Jobs we'd still be in the dark ages...
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sanjay_kn
11 years ago
oh my grammar! It would never be perfect. By the way, I scored 90 plus percentile in TOEFL AND GRE. oh, that was more than 13 years ago( so general understanding is that I can write n speak english!
May be now it has deteriorated. And americans think that they know eng better than the brits! oops, I did it again!).
ok, back to business at hand here.
Both are great pioneers in their own right! While steve was a better product oriented guy, bill was more a software guy! So bill was more inside than steve was and steve was more outside than bill was.
we are really splitting hair here. Both have had their corporeal and their corporates peak in the sun!
A movie about bill gates would also be in the offing soon and story need not be tragic as steves was to make one. story of msft is as compelling as appl!
we want bill to live as long as he can( cross 90 at least)as steve is no more. And he should be able to( staying away from software grind in these last 5 to 6 years was what doctor ordered. He got time to spend more time with his family).
so bottom line both are legends and they changed the world for the better!
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VashTStamp
11 years ago
Wow, trying to read your jumbled assortment of words really hurt my brain. Are you perhaps missing letters on your keyboard? You see those red squiggly lines underneath the majority of your typing? That means bad, also known as not good.
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sanjay_kn
11 years ago
what? It took so long for you to read it? Last time, I checked it was written in english. yes, it was not meant to be be perfect english. It was colloquial and solecistic!
well, I am from bay area and I did only start up work there( and it is nothing else but mental war! Survival rate is 6 months!! I did it for nearly 100 months!). And we all revere steve jobs because, we know what it takes to get there.
Not all of us can but if you can have 1% of what jobs did, that too without going to school, then you wont do badly in your life.
He had assortments of ideas but it takes time for others to digest and make it happen!
It is no wonder even today it happens in bay area- facebook few years ago and now instagram! you must be proud it is still happening in america.
It is possible only by following mantra of steve. Dare to be different, never afraid to ask questions, never fear to try new... stuff like that!
That is the reason he never stopped inventing.
I rest my case!
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