Steve Jobs (Beginning of Apple Computers)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Beginnings_of_Apple_Computer
Android User: “I’m still got Jony Ive’s page open, reading about his career. Interesting, he was hired upon the return of Steve Jobs’ in ‘97.”
Blackberry User: “Return? Where’d he go”“
AU: “Well, he was fired. Don’t you remember?”
BU: “Steve Jobs was fired?”
AU: *double take*
BU: “Look, I don’t know a ton about the history of Apple. Plus, I was probably too young to notice. You might be mentally immature, but I’m chronologically immature.”
AU: “Well, I don’t know what what evidence there is to support the idea that you’re somehow mentally mature, but yes, Jobs was fired.”
BU: “Why?”
AU: “To the internet!”
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Jobs was fired. “While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic director for Apple, some of his employees from that time had described him as an erratic and temperamental manager… and at the end of May 1985 – following an internal power struggle and an announcement of significant layoffs – Sculley relieved Jobs of his duties as head of the Macintosh division.”
Ouch. Then again, the dude went on to buy The Graphics Group from Lucasfilms, which became Pixar. And, of course, Apple after he was rehired. So he’s not doing too bad, all things considered.
And Blackberry User was right—BU would have been a year old at the time of Jobs’s firing.
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