How and Why Was Steve Jobs Fired?

                       Apple is among the topmost IT firms of the world and is renowned for the quality and excellent craftsmanship of its products. Steve Jobs along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne had founded this tech-giant.Jobs loved his work and Apple was his passion.  Apple can’t be visualised without Steve Jobs. During mid 1980s, Apple was searching for someone who could efficiently manage and boost up company’s efficiency, John Sculley was just the man. John Sculley, CEO of PepsiCo, was a highly skilled entrepreneur hired into Apple with Steve’s legendary pitch, “Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?"The irony was that within three months John Sculley himself fired Jobs. Why? To know follow these steps- Step 1 Look at your watch; change the time to 8 pm and the year to 1985.Step 2 Enter location; Building 1 on 20525 Mariani Ave in Cupertino -Santa Clara County, California in the United States.Step 3 BANG; now keep your ears wide open because the conversation you would hear will change the world.

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Steve Jobs: “I want to drop the price of the Macintosh and I want to move the advertising, shift a large portion of it away from the Apple 2 over to the Mac."John Sculley: “Steve, it's not going to make any difference. The reason the Mac is not selling has nothing to do with the price or with the advertising. If you do that, we risk throwing the company into a loss.”   -   Steve totally disagrees with it John Sculley: "Well, I'm gonna go to the board.”Steve Jobs:'I don't believe you'll do it.John Sculley: “Watch me."-   The board agrees with John and Steve is fired. End of the story? No.Steve was fired but one thing remained the same – he still loved his work. "I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me -- I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.”In this period he founded NeXT, a computer platform development company which later became the base for Macintosh and bought Pixar, which made the world’s first computer animated feature film – Toy Story. Every man faces problems but the way they deal with them only matters. Sometimes life's going to hit your in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. "I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."The rest is history. ( I think you know what happened after that? )

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