Hello Readers
I
hope you all are safe and doing well!
Innovation
distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
-Steve Jobs
The
Woah! feeling swims around in our minds hearing these names; Apple INC, Google,
WhatsApp, Facebook, Amazon! which is natural.
The
sheer magnitude these companies have played in our lives, Apple for phones,
amazon for everything! Google is the new information oxygen! Facebook is the
new ozone of people! WhatsApp is now a basic need.
The
world has changed forever due to these multi-billion-dollar firms.
I
have always admired Steve Jobs for the person he was, and his future sighted
thinking.
I
have read the “Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson", a brilliant book, learnt a lot about the oracle of
the modern smartphone.
A
humble beginning in his father's garage with his friend Steve Wozniak another Brilliant
American engineer.
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| courtesy google images |
Today
these brilliant minds turned it around how people look and feel about a laptop
and a phone.
Steve
Jobs was a very stubborn, determined and his focus was laser guided.
He
had to step down from the board of his own company yet started his own company
NeXT INC and started a graphic studio called PIXAR, which is today one of the
world's top animation studios, which Disney acquired.
Remember
"finding memo", "Toy Story", the "cars" yup! that
is the PIXAR I am talking about.
One
fine day Jobs returned to Apple.
When
I heard his Harvard university speech, I was stumped; he narrates how he
stepped down from Apple's board and was disappointed.
Then
he talks about how it allowed him to work on fonts and texts because he loved
calligraphy and the result, the beautiful font types you see on your mac books
today, which is, by the way, unique!
Mr.
Steve Jobs, a spearheaded man, releases the iPhone in the year 2007.
I
Feel that was the start of a paradigm in the phone industry when Windows mobile
operating systems were at the peak of the touch phone industry.
Here
comes a dummy-proof device with only a single button, and people loved it!
Today
the iPhone is the most preferred phone by a person, according to a survey in
Forbes magazine.
Some
more people who made the world look at India and caused a boom in the IT
industry and created great employment opportunity in India, Ratanji Tata,
Narayana Murthy, Azeem Premji, Shiv Nadar.
What
differentiates these entrepreneurs from us?
I would say nothing.
They got a better opportunity they
were, living in the Silicon Valley or became part of later?
Fine,
let us consider all those parameters: yes, they had the upper hand as US always
has seen many pioneers due to appreciation towards entrepreneurs, compared to a
so-called arrogantly branded "third world country" like India and
maybe better-quality education and a support system, but there is something unlike
in them.
courtesy google Images
So how could they succeed?
It
was the determination, the rage to succeed which led them to what they are
today.
Can
we become like them?
Why
not? Who is stopping you?
No
one you are stopping yourself! Give it a try.
The
sky is the limit! Stand alone. It is good, do something different.
All the best! Thanks for your
time.
Please
stay safe; wear a mask.
My
deepest condolences to the souls who have left us in these challenging times.
Helios.
