"STAY HUNGRY STAY FOOLISH"

I have been highly inspired and motivated by founder of apple, Steve Jobs, whom I admire for the quest of innovation and simplicity. His speech at the ‘Stanford University’ convocation ceremony gave me a new vision. He led a simple life. Who laid stone for a billion dollar enterprise like apple, which is famous for their innovative products. Now, Apple has its own market share across the globe. Its products are well known for  quality and technological specifications. All chaos and kudos to Steve for his model of development. He was not just an entrepreneur, but a philosopher too. His words had  magnetic power, which could attract the minds of listeners. He was someone who ‘proved that he is worth of talking’. Any aspiring entrepreneur or management studies aspirants show know his life, which was an epic as far as I concern.

Initially he had nothing to start a business. He was not even graduated. He was once admitted to Reed College, but he found no value on it, he escaped from the place. Steve walked 7 miles to go to Hare Krishna temple to have a nice meal once a week. He used to collect the 5 cent deposit on coke bottles and found his daily bread. He had no ‘palace’ to sleep. He slept on the street on ‘wall street’, the same place which saw the bullish Apple shares crossing all marks and crossing the 600$/share. The same street seems to be filled whenever apple launches a new product. Innovation is what apple is driven by; he showed the world that “when driven by dreams and aware of challenges no one can stop you”. Later when he died with pancreatic cancer, he left his foot prints on minds of youth across the globe..

 Life wasn’t so romantic for Steve. His misfortune started haunting him even before he was actually born. His biological mother was not married; she later put the kid Steve for adoption. He was adopted by a couple who were of ordinary class. At the age of 19, he along with his friend, made the first computer on apple series, the Macintosh 1 in the garage of his father’s home. Later, after 10 years, apple grew to a billion dollar enterprise and 4000 employees. But, Steve was fired from his own company. But, he didn’t settle, he went on creating two new companies, the Pixar and the next. Pixar went on creating world’s first animated film, ‘the toy story’, later apple bought Pixar and Steve was back on the board. He always emphasised on one thing, ‘have the courage to follow your heart and intrusion’. He asked the youth to love what they do and also to connect the dots looking backward. He said that one should show courage enough to follow his own heart and to believe in, ‘dharma’, ‘self’ or something.

Steve was highly inspired by ‘Stewart Brand’ who created the amazing ‘whole earth catalogue’, which he called the Google in paperback form. It was rich in notations and had neat tools. After the magazine ran out of course, on the final issue, there was a photograph of a long path, underneath it, it was written “stay hungry stay foolish”. These words had deep influence in the personality of Steve. If you have noticed him, launching any i products, he had a simple dress, not like bill gates launching his premium windows products. But Steve created a ding in the universe. What made him an entrepreneur were his mind power and his hard work. Many occasions led him down, but he had the courage to overcome every obstacles. He did it and the world had tears in their eyes when he departed the world. But, though out his life he uttered a single thing, “stay hungry stay foolish”............