The name Steve Jobs conjures an image of a salt-and-peppered middle-aged man in a black turtleneck and jeans thrusting an iPhone high in the air. The rags-to-riches success story of the co-founder of Apple is well known across the world, as is his products. There are people all over the world who see this well-crafted public image of tech hero and aspire to be the next Steve Jobs. Yet, who was the man when the cameras stopped rolling? Does he deserve to be venerated as a great American hero or does should he be a global villain? There is no doubt about his genius or his clever business sense however, an examination of different aspects of his life leads to the conclusion that Steve Jobs was more villain than hero. Steve Jobs’ beginning has a …show more content…
At the age of 20, Jobs along with his fellow college dropout Steve Wozniak created a computer in his parent’s garage. Within a mere ten years, the product that Jobs and Wozniak created grew into a $2 billion company that they called Apple. Only a few years after becoming a college dropout, Jobs shook off the “rags” of his childhood and was a successful entrepreneur. Unfortunately, his success was not long-lived, at the age of 30 Jobs was fired from Apple. The decision to fire Jobs was a public ordeal, Jobs said, “what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone…I felt I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down”. Devastated and publicly humiliated by this sudden change of events, Jobs entered a new chapter in his life. Jobs had a unique opportunity before him, one that he took advantage of. In the span of the next five years, Jobs created two new companies, one named NeXT the other named Pixar. In a crazy turn of events, Apple ended up buying NeXT, brining Jobs back into Apple. Jobs struggled through difficult times, citing the only thing that kept him going during those dark times, was the absolute love for what he