On the announcement of his passing on Wednesday, I got to thinking about his contributions to this world and came to this conclusion:
Steve Jobs is the greatest entrepreneur of our generation. He brought us so many inventions, including the Mac, the iPad, the iPhone and the iPad. He changed the way we consume music with the iTunes store. He founded Pixar.
You think of some of the other Entrepreneurs of our time, and they only had one or two good ideas. Bill Gates with his Operating System. Sergey Brin and Larry Page with their search engine and adwords model. These are great ideas, but Steve Jobs just had so many groundbreaking inventions that will keep changing the way that we live.
Also, it is my belief that a company is an expression of its founder. Like a piece of art or a song, the person who made it is inseparable from the thing itself. You add up all of that person’s beliefs and experiences, and you see it expressed in his or her company. See Steve’s quote on design:
“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
You can clearly see this principal in all of his products. We will miss you Steve.
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