I loved reading the speech - many moments spoke to me personally but I would love to see it too! For some reason I can't get the Stanford link to work? I tried a couple of times last night and agin a few times today - no luck. The link to the Stanford page where the video is posted works, I just can't see the video itself (tried Quicktime first, then WMP - I don't have RealPlayer installed). Using Tiger with QT 7.01? Any ideas? I'd really like to see it. - thanks
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Steve Jobs' Commencement Speech
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I too loved reading that. I wish I had read it 20 years ago, and listened to it, and followed it.
My grad speech was by Charles Curwalt and Elizabeth Dole (we all thought a fight might break out between them, my money was on Dole!
) I can't remember a single word either one said.
Good job Steve, and all you young'uns out there, read it again and again, and try it too.
My grad speech was by Charles Curwalt and Elizabeth Dole (we all thought a fight might break out between them, my money was on Dole!
) I can't remember a single word either one said.Good job Steve, and all you young'uns out there, read it again and again, and try it too.
QFace said:
but at the time, of the inception and growth of apple computer inc, woz was yet to be a cal student
and yes, he went to cal later and got his degree, but he was already a centimillionaire from apple
I was at Harvard this year for (part of) John Lithgow's speech. Of course, I was behind the scenes, so I couldn't hear much. Judging from the laughter and cheering, it was a pretty good speech. Then he sang about being a manatee
And later still, I hurt my should taking down a truss for one of the LED walls
And later still, I hurt my should taking down a truss for one of the LED walls
CelticBhoy said:
Considering Apple are really targeting college students with iPods, wouldn't it have made the perfect place for a product announcement! As the speech nears its end, Steve turns back and says "Oh, and one more thing!", then a big screen slides down behind him and the keynote begins to roll...
sushi said:
Let's be honest here. This is completely untrue. Steve was being paid $1 for two different reasons. 1) For tax reasons. Taking a $1 salary as a CEO is something a lot of people do, because it allows them a huge tax writeoff. 2) Steve already had plenty of money. Apple BOUGHT NeXT, the company he owned as part of his coming back. Do you think he made nothing off of that? Also, the Apple board hosed him with benefits and bonuses in stock and other ways. Don't think for a second that he'd be working for Apple for $1 per year if he wasn't making something off of it. He's passionate about things, yes, but he's not an idiot.
Steve Jobs Address
I'd really like to contact Steve Jobs and write to him. I love Apple, I really do, and I think Steve Jobs is a facinating role model. I just find it amazing how he's pioneered three companies (NeXT, Apple, Pixar), all of which relatively successful.
If I sent a letter to 'Steve Jobs, 1 Infinite Loop, CA" etc would he get it? Do you think he, (being realistic) would reply?
Thanks.
I'd really like to contact Steve Jobs and write to him. I love Apple, I really do, and I think Steve Jobs is a facinating role model. I just find it amazing how he's pioneered three companies (NeXT, Apple, Pixar), all of which relatively successful.
If I sent a letter to 'Steve Jobs, 1 Infinite Loop, CA" etc would he get it? Do you think he, (being realistic) would reply?
Thanks.
FearFactor47 said:
Chances are from extremely slim to zero that he'd get it. Steve has multiple assistants, all of whom go through the mail he receives. I'm sure you get some sort of a printed "form letter" response. Don't let that stop you from trying, though. I wrote a letter to Michael Eisner last year. I got the "form letter" response, but then I later heard that he enjoyed my letter. You never know.
shazammy said:
ok, then let's take two seconds and look at the financial picture
steve jobs got millions for next and pixar didn't do him wrong either...today steve is a billionaire
so he gets paid $1 per year and owns one share of apple stock and has declined to exercise any stock options...guess what, he can afford to and if he so chose, he could work for apple for the rest of his days for free and never have to worry about where he was going to get his next meal
if i was a billionaire from next and pixar (seeing him worth between 1.7 and 2.1 billion dollars), i would also do charity work and for steve jobs, apple inc is his charity work, or his passion if you will
apple may be his most high profile gig for us on macrumors.com, but his net worth today is mostly from other sources...when he did get fired from apple, his take of the apple pie did help him have the freedom for next and pixar so it's not as if they kicked steve out the door of apple with no money
You've proven my point. Who gave Steve millions for NeXT? That's right, Apple did. Plus they firehosed him with additional stock and options when he came back. What I'm saying is that this whole "Look, the guy only got paid $1 for his work at Apple" isn't quite the "charity work" it looks like. He gets other financial rewards from Apple, and also scores a big tax writeoff as well.
jefhatfield said:ok, then let's take two seconds and look at the financial picture
steve jobs got millions for next and pixar didn't do him wrong either...today steve is a billionaire
so he gets paid $1 per year and owns one share of apple stock and has declined to exercise any stock options...guess what, he can afford to and if he so chose, he could work for apple for the rest of his days for free and never have to worry about where he was going to get his next meal
if i was a billionaire from next and pixar (seeing him worth between 1.7 and 2.1 billion dollars), i would also do charity work and for steve jobs, apple inc is his charity work, or his passion if you will
apple may be his most high profile gig for us on macrumors.com, but his net worth today is mostly from other sources...when he did get fired from apple, his take of the apple pie did help him have the freedom for next and pixar so it's not as if they kicked steve out the door of apple with no money
I think the bigger point about him being paid $1 is that everything he has earned from Apple since his return is based on results. Its not like he said, "I'll come back for $5million a year, and stock options and a jet..."
He gotten even more filthy rich because of the results he been getting. And being hungry and foolish.
He gotten even more filthy rich because of the results he been getting. And being hungry and foolish.
eligible?
One thing that confused me about the speech... he talked about his love for his wife Laurene ("and today, Laurene and I have a wonderful family together"), but I thought I had read somewhere on the web that they got divorced recently? Was that just a false rumor floating around about him... or was the commencement speech his most ingenious coup de force of all, to get her back?
One thing that confused me about the speech... he talked about his love for his wife Laurene ("and today, Laurene and I have a wonderful family together"), but I thought I had read somewhere on the web that they got divorced recently? Was that just a false rumor floating around about him... or was the commencement speech his most ingenious coup de force of all, to get her back?
shazammy said:
you certainly don't have your facts straight
it's just mac zealot-blindness that guides your posts...please be nice to people who are either right, or misinformed for that matter...i have been here nearly five years and flamewar baiters only get banned from macrumors
i have been in high tech six years in silicon valley, vp of a dot.com, and we studied apple's going ons in mba school and in the real world of which i have been working for 26 years...i was an apple warranty tech, and blah blah, i can go on and on but i admit that i was a zealot at first and like many ufo fans and conspiracy theorists, i believed anything anyone told me if it idolized sj or the woz, or apple inc
the funny thing i see when i meet apple zealots is that they all agree that 1+1=3
sj made the bulk of his money from things other than apple inc...and guess what, that's no crime!!!
Yeah, Stanford always gets good commencement speakers. I had Ted Koppel for one year, and Robert Pinski (poet-laureate) another.
That said, that was a nice speech. He's right--you have to take pride in what you do, and in order to do that, you have to love what you do.
Rock on, Steve.
That said, that was a nice speech. He's right--you have to take pride in what you do, and in order to do that, you have to love what you do.
Rock on, Steve.
Counterfit said:And later still, I hurt my should taking down a truss for one of the LED walls
Were you part of the audi visual team for the graduation ceremony at Harvard? I hope that your shoulder injury is improved now. Did it require any medical attention?
true777 said:One thing that confused me about the speech... he talked about his love for his wife Laurene ("and today, Laurene and I have a wonderful family together"), but I thought I had read somewhere on the web that they got divorced recently? Was that just a false rumor floating around about him... or was the commencement speech his most ingenious coup de force of all, to get her back?
hey true777
if sj is free you should go look him up...i think he still lives in the valley
I was hired help for the company that does the A/V stuff (First company to run sound for Harvard's commencement in the history of electricity!). My shoulder's still giving me crap though, I hope I didn't hurt a rotator cuffwdlove said: