In my second post I am introducing a successful entrepreneur. His story gives us a simple message that no doubt he also have his bad times in business but only thing he never lost is hope, only thing he never changed is focus and the only thing he never leave is his positive attitude towards life and career, and which today introduce him to the world as successful individual and of course unique in personality and experience.
Steve jobs. he is the CEO of apple, which he co-founded in 1976, today leading the consumer technology world with it's revolutionary product's. steve also co-founded and was the CEO of pixar animation, which created some most successful animated films including Toy story and Bug's life but their is a person behind this success who start's his career as a college drop out because it was expensive, recalling his time he said, I normally slept on the floor in friends' rooms, returned coke bottles for 5 cents deposits to buy food with, and walk 7 miles every sunday night to hare krishna temple for a good meal.
At 20 he and his friend (Steve woznaik) started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. They named their company Apple in memory of a happy summer he spent as an orchard worker in oregon. They faced competition from IBM's new PC and unveiled their new creation, Lisa only to be another expensive failure, after this failure they worked on Macintosh, by 1986 Mac was a huge success and apple had grown into a $ 2 Billion dollar company with over 2000 employees.
However later, he left the company after losing a bitter battle over control with apple CEO John sculley, Well according to Jobs getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. And this is the only quality entrepreneur should have to start from the beginning at any time. During the next five years he started two new companies Nextstep and Pixar, Next didn't do well whereas Pixar was a success story and jobs become an instant billionaire.
Meanwhile, his old company , Apple was in immense pressure from rival Microsoft and in 1996 posted billions of dollers in losses. In Dec 1996 jobs convinced Apple to buy NeXT and make its software the foundation of the next generation Mac OS and everything else is history, Initially appointed as Apple's adviser, Steve jobs was named Apple's interim CEO in 1997.
In 2004, jobs was diagnosed with Cancer on his pancreas. jobs was told that the cancer was incurable and he would only live for another three to six months. Later a biospy showed that he had very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgry. He had the surgery and survived.
He believes in "Stay hungry and stay foolish" which sound's insane but staying hungry and staying foolish makes him so valuable. I like to share a Video with you of this great man.
It was interesting to read this blog I believe that positive attitude plays a important role in one's life. Keep up the good work. Good Job
ReplyDeleteThis shows how dedicated Steve jobs was towards his work. This is very informative post and gives gr8 information about my inspirational figure 'Steve Jobs' who is an ideal business man.
ReplyDeleteCan you tell me more about the attitudes and qualities of other people who are their own bosses. Nice blog.Good work.
ReplyDeleteNice and informative blog. It is very inspiring too.
ReplyDeleteI think this attitude stay hungary and stay foolish is a great way to look at life as long as you have the positive attitude to go with it. ;)
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