I Want to BeSteve JobsBasic Manual (Project #3)

Darryl Heron

Toastmasters- Word Weavers Wiesbaden, Germany

31 August, 2011

About the Presentation

This is based on a speech given about Steve Jobs @Toastmasters Word Weavers club

Wiesbaden, Germany on August 31, 2011…

This was Project #3 out of the Basic Manual

You know of Steve Jobs

•Apple Computers•iPod•iTunes•iPhone•iPad

He recently retired,

I want to be Steve Jobs!

Apple- the early years

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple computers

Like many other companies in Silicon Valley, Apple was started out of family garage of Steve Jobs

He was one of the first to see the potential of the mouse. That‘s why we all have a mouse on our PCs today.

Change the World

Steve Jobs lured John Sulley away from Pepsi to be Apple‘s CEO, asking him

„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?“

Boardroom Coup

Apple‘s Board of directors sided with CEO John Sulley in a dispute between Steve Jobs & himself.

Can you imagine being fired from the company you co-founded?

Jobs said during his famous commencement address at Stanford „The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed be to enter on the most creative periods of my life“

Being Fired, from your own company!

After leaving Apple, Steve Jobs was at a loss.

„I really didn‘t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as if was being passed on to me.“

„But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.“

NeXT & Pixar

Steve Jobs started NeXT Computer.

He bought The Graphics Group from LucasFilm. This would later become Pixar

Chances are that you‘ve probably heard of a Pixar movie or two (even if you haven‘t seen one)

Disney bought Pixar and Steve Jobs became the largest single stockholder of Disney

Reed College

Steve Jobs parents promised to send him to college. He had his heart set on Reed College

A Caligrpahy class that he took while a Reed College was largely responsilbe for all the different fonts and typefaces that were offered on the Macintosh.

Can you imagine not being able to use serif, san serif, and all the other fonts we have today?

If You Don‘t Have Your Health

At 17 Steve Jobs read „If you live each day as if it was your last, you‘ll most certainly be right“

„If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?“ If the answer is not too often, it is time to make some changes. parents promised to send him to college. He had his heart set on Reed College

„Your time is limited, so don‘t waste it living someone else‘s life. Don‘t be trapped by dogma - … have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.“

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!

We call learn a few things from Steve Jobs…

Some Final Words..

I learned a lot about Steve Jobs when I was preparing for my speech. I was really looking forward to seeing what he was going to do now that he had “retired” from Apple. I thought that maybe he might challenge Bill Gates in the world of Philanthropy or that he might tackle one of the insurmountable problems that we have today. Like much of the world I was truly saddened to hear of his death. When all is said and done I wonder how many people will have been inspired by Steve Jobs and what his impact will have been and continue to be?

I‘m currently reading the Steve Jobs biography written by Walter Isaacson. I encourage you to read it if you‘d like to learn more about Steve Jobs.

Be Sure to Check Out

Steve Jobs‘ 2005 Stanford Commentment Addresshttp://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/videos/987.html

Darryl Heron‘s presentations on SlideSharehttp://www.slideshare.net/darrylheron

Find out more About.mehttp://about.me/darrylheron

Toastmasters Internationalhttp://www.toastmasters.org/

Word Weavers- Wiesbaden, Germany (my home club)http://www.word-weavers.de/

Credits

Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg

Steve Jobs with the first generation iPad tablethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Jobs_with_the_Apple_iPad_no_logo_(cropped).jpg

Wikipedia entry on Steve Jobshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

Text from Steve Jobs‘ 2005 Stanford Commencement Addresshttp://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Jobs on stage at Macworld Conference & Expo San Francisco, January 11, 2005http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stevejobs_Macworld2005.jpg