some called this man a master marketer some deemed him a Visionary with the demeanor of a charismatic cult leader who was light years ahead of his time detractors say he was demanding and could even be downright despicable at times a few foes have even called him a phony whatever you may think of this risk taker one thing's for certain he changed the way we'd communicate forever he left behind a legacy and the wise words stay hungry stay foolish we'll deciphers Steve Jobs
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let's kick off with our intro which is sprinkled with words I think you need to know especially if you want to have an eloquent vocabulary in English cause let's be honest we can get by just saying good night ice and I know a lot of native speakers who spend their whole day using the three same adjectives over and over nice cool awesome but remember the more words we know the better we can express ourselves the more specific we can be I started out by saying some
called this man a master marketer and I think few people will disagree there this guy was a master marketer some deemed him and to deem is to consider some deemed him a Visionary with the demeanor of a charismatic cult leader an occultist una secta we've looked at that there's an episode on Cults and demeanor is comportamiento conductia then I said he was light years ahead of his time and it's true even people who don't like him his detractors will say he was light years ahead of his
time but they also said that he was demanding and could even be downright despicable and remember we say demanding although exigent is a word in English it's not used as often as demanding and downright despicable means somebody you don't want to spend time with but also that's what bosses are like sometimes so we'll look at all the different aspects of his life the people who saw him as a leader and the people who saw him as that pain in the neck boss that was always riding them and
micromanaging them and to micromanage is something we say in English when there's a boss and these are the worst kinds of bosses I think everybody will agree somebody who stands over you and they want to manage every little thing you do it's called micromanaging and I think Studies have shown and I think you can just see it it doesn't work you gotta let people will do what you hired them to do you have to empower people and he did that but he was also known as a
micromanager then I said a few foes and a foe is another way to say an enemy a few foes have even called him a phony but whatever you may think of this risk taker somebody who takes risks is obviously a risk taker one thing's for certain he changed the way we'd communicate forever and if you don't know what I'm talking about I'm talking about the iPhone which was not the first smartphone ever but it was the first one that everybody really got and I don't mean get by I mean God like understood
then I said he left behind a legacy and the wise words stay hungry stay foolish and these are famous words that Steve Jobs said in a a speech which we're going to hear in the bonus part of today's show and at the end of that speech he said stay hungry that means always want more never be satisfied and he said stay foolish and stay foolish doesn't mean be stupid but it means don't think you know everything it's good to not know everything because then you've got a lot to learn I think
he means foolish in the sense of a child and then I said we'll decipher Steve Jobs and I think this guy is interesting whether you like him or not he's LED an interesting life and we're going to take a little look at it today but let's go back to where it all began [Music] Steve Jobs was born on February 24 1955 to Abdul fatah jandali and Joanne schaible the father came from a Muslim background and be careful I've heard my students say muscle man a muscle man is
somebody who's got a lot of muscles a Muslim is somebody who looks at the Quran but his mother had a Catholic background and they weren't married when she got pregnant so he was a baby that was born out of wedlock when a baby is born and the parents aren't married they say it's born out of wedlock and both of his parents were enrolled at the University of Wisconsin at the time so the woman his mother fled to California to have the baby and to flee is to run away but she put little Steve up for
adoption after deciding that she could not keep the baby there was just one promise that she wanted the new parents to keep or should I say two conditions she wanted them to be college graduates and she wanted little Steve to go to college as well and she made them promise to pay for his higher education an interesting little-known fact about Steve Jobs original parents is that they ended up having a daughter after Steve but they kept the daughter they didn't
decide to put her up for adoption as we say and he didn't meet his biological sister a woman named Mona Simpson until he was 27 years old he was finally able to track her down so they put little Steve up for adoption and like many successful entrepreneurs Steve was a College Dropout I know his mother's wishes were that he go to college but if he didn't want to go he wasn't going to go and this is where we started to see where Steve Jobs was a stubborn guy he was hard-headed and like most
entrepreneurs he dropped out of college as I said and in 1972 after only one semester he dropped out and as I said we're gonna hear this speech at the end because later on in his life when he was successful he was invited to Stamford to give the commencement speech and I think it's one of the most moving speeches I've ever heard in my life it's a very popular speech and as I said we'll listen to it in the bonus part also in the bonus part we'll take a look at fun
facts we'll look at his spirituality and we'll explore those ideas about him being too strict or demanding or even insane we'll talk about a lawsuit that they had with the Beatles we'll talk about how Steve himself wasn't a model father and will look at phone own and computer vocabulary all of that in the bonus episode and just a quick reminder guys every week you don't just get one episode of FYI if you're on patreon you get a second episode and you can get PDF
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now we're going to take a look at how he started Apple alongside Steve Wozniak and they're called the two Steves Steve Wozniak or woz as they call him and Steve Jobs created the first Apple computer in March
1976. it was designed by was or Wozniak and it was clear since the beginning that he was going to be the tech guy was and Steve Jobs was gonna be the seller the marketer and that's great if everybody knows their roles and everybody agrees but it wasn't always that simple we'll see that the two have gotten into many falling outs a falling out is another way to say a fight where people don't talk to each other for a while and by April 1st 1976 the two set up Apple computer
company as a business they set it up with another guy named Ronald Wayne now it's called Apple Inc but the original name was Apple computer company the business was registered at Steve Jobs parents home on Christ Drive Steve Jobs's bedroom was their office and they later moved to the garage because I guess they had more room and some of Steve's detractors will say that he never wrote a line of code not one but again you got to think about it if they Define their roles then he knew what he
was good at and what he needed to do and he had that business savvy that creativity he was a good talker a good marketer but the brains the brains behind the operation as far as technical specifications that was Wozniak you would never have apple if it hadn't been for Wozniak and Steve stepped down in 1985 and to step down as to in Spanish and Steve Wozniak said and I quote he did not know technology he had never designed anything as a hardware engineer he didn't even know software he
wanted to be important and the important people are always the business people so that's what he wanted to do but I get it I know Waz was you know he knows that he's an important part of it but it's true that Steve Jobs got all the protagonism now as time goes on people are recognizing more and more the role of Wozniak in Apple computers and is was as good as they say well let's just put it this way that first computer that they made in 1976 would still work today
the Apple won as it was called it sold for 666.66 that was the original price but do you want to know how much it went went for recently at an auction and if you remember from past episodes we've looked at auctions subastas nearly a half a million dollars around 470 thousand dollars and I think everybody knows it's probably worth even more because it's a piece of history that I think should be preserved forever and what about the name Apple where did the name come from well there was a time
when Steve Jobs was working on a farm commune it was in Oregon and he spent a lot of time in an apple orchard an apple orchard is where apple trees are and he liked the name and he liked apples but he ended up getting sued by The Beatles how do you like them apples did you get my joke how do you like them Apple City of those apples we'll talk more about that lawsuit in the bonus episode and it seemed like everything was going really well at Apple for Steve Jobs or not not really
he was forced out of the company in
1985. they disagreed on the direction the company needed to go in so he was forced out of his own company that he founded the twist in this story is that he later returned in 1996 as CEO remember we don't say fail we say CEO and you know why he came back Why They begged him to come back to Vegas drogar because the company was almost in bankruptcy so he saved the company from chapter 11 chapter 11 is the code for bankruptcy in the United States and he continued to be the face of the brand
and brought it to where it is today until his death in 2011 and he references all this stuff in the speech I guess the boy board of directors at Apple really had to eat crow but that didn't stop Steve he built another company up called Next which ironically the name is next and that company was eventually sold to Apple speaking of companies that were sold to Apple does the name Graphics group ring a bell no I didn't think it would Graphics group was a company that was funded by
Steve Jobs in 1986. it would later become Pixar oh now it rings a bell well initially it was a sub company under Disney and Steve Jobs invested in this company until it became its own spin-off company in 1995 they released their first movie Toy Story which came out again in 1995 I think everybody sees this as a classic and it was a joint venture the word joint is conjunto a joint venture project with Disney but since Steve Jobs had invested so much money he was credited
as executive producer and in an ironic turn of events on January 24th 2006 Disney he agreed to buy back Pixar for a whopping 7.4 billion dollars it was an all stock deal and stocks or notiones but 7.4 billion dollars and all because he invested in this project and he believed in it and let's be honest he seems like a guy who trusted his gut he trusted his Instinct and this also made him one of Disney's largest shareholders for just a short amount of time he was one of
Disney's one of the biggest companies in the world well he was one of their shareholders after hitting rock bottom remember this he was fired from his own company so what did he do did he stay down or did he dust himself off and get back up again and keep doing what he loves to do regardless of anybody's opinion and I think that's what many people admire fire about Steve Jobs he had conviction he had passion he believed in what he was doing he wanted to put a computer in every home and they
told him he was crazy and now look he put a computer in every pocket so 2006 what a big year for him but 2007 even bigger he was Unstoppable at this point and that's because the first iPhone was released on June 29
2007. they had been working on it since 2005 but they unveiled it to the public in a very famous Apple event now on June 29th 2007 a day that changed history forever again was Apple first no but they were the first ones to make it marketable to convince everybody that this was a good idea phones looked one way before Steve Jobs and now they all look like Steve Jobs designed them honestly whether they're more rounded or more square but the concept of the phone they all follow
Apple's original design and let's not forget about the iPod he reinvented the Walkman and the Discman only now the music didn't Skip and you could fit tens of thousands of songs in your pocket it's revolutionary just ask the music industry they weren't too happy with that also in 2007 he was inducted into the California Hall of Fame Fortune magazine named him the most powerful person in business so the iPhone cemented his success he already turned Mac around or Macintosh which by the way
is a kind of apple you could say that Steve Jobs had an obsession with apples but it worked out well for him didn't it but nothing lasts forever and we all know that and in 2003 Steve Jobs was diagnosed with cancer they found a tumor in his pancreas and Steve Jobs was kind of like a new age kind of guy we're going to talk a little bit about his spirituality and some of the pilgrimages that he did in the bonus part but he was one of these people who didn't believe
in medicine as we know it he believed in more traditional medicines and he ignored the suggested medical treatment because he was looking for other Alternatives some people attribute that to his death they say that if he had treated it right away maybe he wouldn't have died what will all gonna die as we said in the death episode but maybe he wouldn't have died from this if they had been able to treat it sooner because they detected it and I know he didn't like going to the doctors but an apple a
day keeps the doctor away pun intended that just means if you eat healthy you won't have to visit the doctor a lot and finally in 2004 he under underwent surgery it comes from the verb to undergo and it seems like they were able to remove the tumor from his pancreas but sadly in 2006 the tumor returned in 2009 he had a liver transplant in Memphis Tennessee and a liver is El igado you can learn about that in our body episode if you haven't heard it and while he was sick he was
working on his biography with a writer named Walter Isaacson and they were basing the book on over 40 interviews with Steve Jobs and they also interviewed people who were a huge part of his life so they could get the real story but knowing Steve what did he say he said he didn't want to read the book before it was published he wanted a true account of his life and he didn't want to have any influence on it and that's just one of the many biographies that have come out about this interesting man
there are movies biographies documentaries the list is endless there's even a podcast well officially this one and sadly Steve Jobs passed away on October 5th
2011. his biography that he was working on wasn't published until October 24th just 19 days after his death so he never got to read it at all and his final words were oh wow oh wow oh wow astonishment at the time of his death in 2011 his net worth was 10.2 billion dollars billions and that was his personal Fortune I guess it's worth mentioning too that in 2022 Apple was the most valuable brand on Earth so I think everybody will agree his legacy lives on hey I'm holding my
iPhone in my hand right now thanks Steve or should I say both Steve's I hope you enjoyed this first part and I sure hope you'll join us in the bonus part of today's F why I [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music]