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Steve Jobs

Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar

United States · 1955–2011

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Co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 and was removed from the company in 1985. Founded NeXT and led Pixar Animation Studios before returning to Apple in 1997, serving as chief executive until 2011. Died in 2011.

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Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret read 81 other answers →

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Recorded Stanford University 114th Commencement, Stanford News (Stanford University), 12 June 2005 source ↗

Question If you could edit your past, what would you change? Failure & regret read 210 other answers →

But the market was changing. The industry was changing. The scale was changing. And in the end we knew we would be either the last company to make it or the first to not make it. We were right on the edge. We thought we would be the last one that made it, but we were wrong. We were the first one that didn't. We put an end to the companies that tried to do that. We certainly made our fair share of mistakes, but in the end I think we should have taken a bit longer to realize the world was changing and just gone on to be a software company right off the bat.

Recorded Daniel Morrow, Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories, for the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, 20 April 1995 source ↗

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