Thank you Steve.
The man who gave us the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the
iPad, is dead - Steve Jobs, may his soul rest in peace.
The most amazing is the story of the man who is the icon for
the people in love with technology. Started as an entrepreneur with his lab in
a garage, ended as the man leading a seventy five billion dollar company, Apple
Inc.
His life went through
the most unlikely episodes, one cannot imagine the way he emerged as a leader
in industry. I remember what I read in
papers, saw on TV, and of course his biographies, this man really had the
experience of lifetime. Starting with the success of Apple І
and followed by the grand success of Apple II, Steve Jobs proved his mettle,
even though Steve Wozniak shares the credit but it was more due to Jobs’s
managerial skills that made Apple a brand. The youngest man on the cover of
Times magazines was also at one point of time a man who had vowed to abstain
from all worldly affairs but in the end it was to be like this. His life took a
turn at one point of time, he left Apple after some internal friction,
heartbroken but still determined. Started NeXT, acquired Pixar and turned
around the Disney management and was back on Apple Inc. After his return to
Apple Inc. in 1997, there was no looking back. One after the other the iMac’s,
the iPod’s, the MacBook’s, the iPhone’s, and not to forget the ultimate iPad’s,
the success story has just began, but for him it ended this October the 5th
in Paolo Alto due to Pancreatic cancer that had made him to take a break for some
time in 2009 and then finally quit in 2011.
What I learned from this man is perseverance, not to fail in
your heart, how to fight your disabilities and win. Even though he was
diagnosed with this serious disorder in 2005, he started his glorious journey
after 2005. He saw times when, like being given up by his parents, days of
poverty, days in search of spiritual happiness, extreme hard work, troubled
personal life, as a father and a brother. But in the end what counts is that is
an ICON for me and those who dream big and dream to win.
May his soul rest in peace.
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
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