Steve Jobs on Changing the World: You Can Mold It

Here's a guy who revolutionized the computer industry, the music industry, the motion picture industry, the telephone industry, there's four, and maybe more. That's impact. When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. In this never before seen interview, a younger Steve Jobs gave a rare glimpse of his vision of the world. That's a very limited life.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be able understand that you can poke life and actually something will... You know, if you push in, something will pop out the other side that you can you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. One great influence on Steve Jobs was his complex relationship with friend and rival, Bill Gates. Apple's history interweaves with Microsoft's. Their CEOs gave a unique interview to journalist Walter Mossberg.

It was, to my knowledge, the only time they ever got on stage together to submit themselves to an extended, interview with journalists. The interview gave Walt unparalleled insights into the dynamics of their relationship. But then there was a... From the start, Gates was overshadowed by the more polished, confident Jobs. I made... I mean, let me tell you the story. Okay. There was... I'm not fake Steve Jobs. They were partners, you know, for a long time. The very first Apple two computers had Microsoft software in them. We've kept our marriage secret for over a decade now. Competitors in certain But while the banter was good natured, the rivalry between the two was deep rooted.

Jobs had glamour and dynamism. And by the mid nineteen eighties, he was one of the richest self made men in America. For Steve Jobs, life had been good. He was worth a million dollars when he was 21. He was worth $10,000,000 when he was 22. He was worth a $100,000,000 when he was 23 years old. So he knew nothing but success. And when you're 23 years old, you're worth a $100,000,000, you are pretty damn fool of yourself. And that's what Steve became. And so he was... He had a a huge ambition. On stage, Jobs and Gates joked about the relationship between Macman Steve and PC man Bill. PC guy is great. I like to He's got a big heart. His mother loves him.

His mother loves him. I'm telling you. PC guy is what makes it all work, actually. Yeah. Alright. Of the two of them, the one that took the bigger risks and changed the game more often, it was Steve. It was Steve Jobs. Well, I give a lot to have Steve's taste. He he has natural... Not a joke at all. I I think in terms of intuitive taste both for people and products, the way he does things, it's it's just different. And, you know, I think it's it's magical. And in that case Despite their long standing rivalry You know? They displayed a healthy respect and even affection for one another. You know, I think of I think of most things in life as either a Bob Dylan or Beatles song.

But there's that that one line and that one Beatles song, you and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead, and that's that's clearly true here. Thank you very much. In fact, we were quite taken aback by the standing ovation and seeing some of the people from where we were sitting on stage actually shedding tears. It sounds strange, but it was actually an emotional thing. Today, we're introducing three revolutionary products of this class. The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary mobile phone.

And the third is a breakthrough Internet communications device. So three things, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet communications device. An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. An iPod, a phone. Are you getting it?

These are not three separate devices. This is one device, and we are calling it iPhone. Today today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is. No. Actually, here it is, but we're gonna leave it there for now. I'm vertical. I'm back at Apple, loving every day of it. Most poignantly, he was asked what the next few years might hold.

The future is long. The last few years have reminded me that life is fragile. You know? Finally, he withdrew from public life. Only his closest friends saw how he was coping with the threat of an early death. Stephen Paul Jobs died of cancer on the 10/05/2011 at the age of 56. His last words revealed at his memorial service, oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow.

The impact of his death reverberated around the world. The news was spread, and the tributes were created on the new eye devices that his visionary genius had made. The fact that Steve Jobs had finally logged out made headlines everywhere. This man really had changed the world.