A year ago at 3:00 PM, Steve Jobs died. He died of respiratory arrest. For six days, half-staff flags outside of Apple headquarters and campuses, including those of Microsoft and Disney, flew forlornly to mark the passing of an innovative and generous human being. If you want proof of how one human’s visionary drive can change the world, then just turn on your iPod. Yes, Jobs was the brain behind the iPod, as well as the NeXT computer that Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web on. He pulled Apple out of bankruptcy in the late 90s, and today it is one of the most successful companies in the world. Jobs left his fingerprints on the face of technology forever, and we are better off for it. However, it is not enough to consider what he has left behind; It’s important to consider Job’s beginnings. In 1976, when his friend Steve Wozniak invented the Apple I computer, Apple Computers started up in Job’s garage so that they could sell it. In 1983, Jobs saw potential in John Sculley to serve as the CEO of the young Apple. Nothing more captures the heart of entrepreneurship then what Jobs supposedly told Sculley that day: “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?” The inception of Apple was in Steve Job’s garage — hardly elegant or revolutionary. But when three young men with big plans and tenacious genius started Apple that day, it led to a turbulent, long journey for each of them with Steve Jobs ultimately emerging the prime innovator and captain of what was no longer a modest boat, but the technological flagship of the modern age. Job’s success is an example of why entrepreneurs are even who they are at all: they are entrepreneurs because they believe success can arise from a vision, commitment, and patience — regardless of origins. More than anything, this is the heart of the American dream. So when you turn on your iPod, iPhone, iMac, watch Toy Story (executive producer — did you know?), or hear about how successful Apple is now, think about Steve Jobs: someone who proved that if you change the world enough, then you never really die.
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