Jobs gives commencement speech at Stanford, talks about connecting the dots, love and loss and death.

Answers to Questions provided in Exercise 4 assignment.

Steve Jobs was 67 years old when he gave his commencement speech at Stanford University.

His wife’s name is Laurene Powell Jobs.

He founded NeXT, Apple Inc. and the Apple Store.

He attended Reed College, Reed College is located in Portland, Oregon.

Steve Wozniak was a co-founder of Apple Inc. with Steve Jobs.

John Sculley is the man who ended up forcing Jobs out of the company. He previously worked at PepsiCo.

Steve Jobs gave the commencement speech to the graduates of the Stanford 2005 graduating class.

Jobs first talked about connecting the dots by talking about how he was a dropout of Reed College. Then, he talked about how he created the now company, Apple Inc. The computer that Steve Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak created the NeXT computer, the very first computer Apple created.

The NeXT computer when it was invented was $10,000! That is more than anyone could afford back in those days, but then again it was basically the first good piece of technology.

“Don’t lose faith”, Jobs said. This quote relates to him dropping out of college and creating a top tech producing company in the world today.

“I had been rejected but was still in love” was what Jobs said when he got let go from the company that he created in 1984. John Sculley, a very smart man who was brought in by Jobs to work with him, eventually got Jobs fired from his own company.

Jobs, after he was let go by the board of Apple, said he needed a revival of spirit. Bob Noyce one of Jobs’ good friends, one of the founders of Intel, came to him and what Noyce said to Jobs really “revived his spirit”. Jobs used this in his speech, saying to the graduates, “If you get knocked down, get up again”. Don’t stay down because you could be missing very important things happening in your life all around you whether that be college related or career related.

Jobs told the graduates that he was an autodidact. This means that Jobs taught him self about everything that he wanted to know. A good example of this is at college he taught himself calligraphy. He eventually taught himself everything he needed to know about computers and everything technology.

This is how Jobs talked about Love and Loss, by getting up if you get knocked down.

His final point that he told the graduates was about death. Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003. He died 6 years after he gave the speech in 2011 when he unfortunately lost his battle with the cancer.

“Stay young and stay foolish”. This was a quote that Jobs said to the grads. This basically means the energy and outlook of the future is what you want it to be, don’t just stick to one thing.