1. What are the factors that contributed to the
success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?
The
movie, Pirates of the Silicon Valley, made a way for me to know better and to
know more about who really is Steven Paul Jobs or the world renowned Steve
Jobs. All along, I just knew him because he is the founder of Apple Inc., the
great mind behind the manufacturer of all the Apple contraptions that almost
all individual is utilizing nowadays. The story behind his success? I did not
know neither any bit of it. I just know his name, that he is Steve Jobs. The
mighty Steve Jobs.
As
I go through with the movie, there are more than enough reasons that I can say
that contributed on his success and his failures. Maybe one of the prime keys to his success is
his companion, who never left his side during his downfall, another Steve in
his life, Steve Wozniak, his best bud, and other computer delights that helped
them in creating and making their own company. Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs’ best
buddy, is the affable man who has witnessed the war between Steve Jobs and Bill
Gates without getting wounded along the way. Steve’s persistence on what he is
doing and his bravery contributed to where he was right now. They started at
the bottom, and now they are on the top list of the companies that has helped
the world to be more modernized. Steve does not settle for what is good. He
wants the best of the best. He is really brilliant in making ideas, in
expressing his thoughts on how and what it should be. Using his garage as a
workplace? That was a great move by Steve Jobs because it shows that he is
really willing to achieve his goals even though they will start from the
beginning, from scratch. Though it was a bit difficult for him to create his
dream company, it never became the reason for him to give up. The bank officers
where he wanted to get a loan doubted him because he did not look like a
business guy at the first place but however, they did not stop him from getting
the loan. He pursued and he pursued until it happened. He was persistent.
That’s it!
Brilliant
is a true definition for the name Steve Jobs. He was really a brilliant. His
brilliance really contributed a lot in the information and technology industry.
Not only to that, but he also contributed to the business industry where he
uses his ideas on the information and technology side and mixed with the
businesses that really needed his ideas.
He was never afraid of being a failure; instead, he used his failed
attempts to do much better. One of the things that maybe contributed to Steve
Jobs’ success is also his looks. Well, that is the truth. Nowadays, people
would gladly talk to a personnel who has good looks, pleasing personality and a
dashing smile. It is plus factor for Steve Jobs’ that he got the looks which
can attract customers. He used his looks to gain attention on the fair where
his team was included. Steve Jobs’ on a dashing suite, a well shaved mustache
and a huge grin on his face knowing that their booth was the only booth who has
attracted a lot of customers. The way he talks
to the public and presenting their product it his unique ability, but at their
first try to gather some investors for their company he didn’t succeed in it.
And he realized that the bankers and other people that allow you to loan money
to build your own company don’t want to see this happy go lucky personality.
Until a guy named Mike showed his appearance on Steve’s and the team’s
workplace, at Steve’s garage, and told them that he wanted to invest in their
company. It was so nice that the man, himself, has approached the team first.
Maybe he saw that the company Jobs’ is starting to has the thing. He told Steve
and his other co-workers that he wanted to invest to their company and Steve
says that what they’re doing is more of this spiritual thing. From this I see
that Steve does not want the money for success but he thinks how his company
will change the world. He was seeing the future in his hands, in his own hands.
He always dreamt that the time will come when this company will be one of those
companies who can contribute to the fast changing environment of this world.
Creating a product that was way different from the existing products. He always
wanted to innovate those existing products to a more different, to a much more
better than what any individual could have imagined. He always thinks that
there is something worthwhile than those existing products. The best is yet to
come. I really like the way he introduce a product of his because he is not
just introducing the product by its specifications but he is introducing it
like how much it will inspire people when they use it. He was imaginative,
creative and of course he was a man who really wanted to take a lot of risks.
He was very competitive and very risk taker human being. He is also a big risk
taker, he makes Apple set this social currency that high and he wanted for
Apple to stay on top of the social currency.
But then, human as we
are Steve Jobs’ has failures too. Because
of his brilliance caused him to be blinded; blinded in such a way, that he only
craved on climbing the top and becoming the best. For me, Steve Jobs never took
time to realize that there are so much more things to be seen. He was missing
some important parts of his life. Throughout
the movie, I noticed how Steve Jobs’ handle his anger. I thought that he has a
lower dose of anger management, that he has the attitude. He cannot contain his
feelings every time he was fuming mad. When he is upset, he releases his anger
through his employees. He had that exchange of words with one of his employees.
He even hurt one of his employees physically. He also has trust issues. He
cannot trust an individual whole heartedly. He never opened his doors to the
other people.
But, what really
bothers me is that when his girlfriend told she was pregnant, he was denial.
Really? How can he do that? He said in front of his girlfriend’s face that the
baby in her stomach is not his child. I thought of him as a douche bag for that
action. How can he deny that child? He has the money. He was stable. He was
successful, very successful that he can give all the things when his child will
be born. Then, it struck me that maybe he was not ready of being a father at
all. He is now at the top and he does not want any interference that could brag
his name down as well as his company. He has the world he has been dreaming of
then suddenly it will be affected because of his child. He tried all his best
to hide the child and the mother. Though, he had visited them the day the child
was born, the child was named Lisa, and after that it took long years for him
to visit them again. When he faced some legality issues on being the father of
Lisa, it affected him.
Steve being successful
brought him to his own pit. He became workaholic; he was obsessed with his work
and his company. He wanted his employees to do the best of the best. He wanted
them to channel their inner souls so that the best that he was trying to
configure will go out and will make a new scare in the industry. This one also
contributed on his failures. He wanted more and more from them. He even split his
employees into two teams, the Mac people and the Apple II people. He made the
two teams fight with each other, with their ideas. He was comparing the ideas
of the two teams. During the launch of the Mac, he shows off that the people on
the team Mac is the best people he has. How rude of him, right? The team should
not be compared since the two teams have been doing their best for the sake of
Apple, for the sake of Steve. Although his intention of making them into two
teams was also for the sake of his employees, it is still not a great move to
do by the CEO to compare the teams he made for the better progress of his
company.
Steve is also a human
who commits mistakes and in contrary, he is also a human who wanted to achieve
his dreams. His failures in life have made him a better man that takes the full
responsibilities of what he has been doing in his life. He fixed his problem
with his child, Lisa, and created a family that will always be with him no
matter what. His ideas has a big impact in this world nowadays, he changed the
world into a more modernize. Even after his death, the contributions he made to
this world will always be remembered and as well as his story.
2. How do you see
yourself as a technopreneur?
The
question was “How do I see myself as a technopreneur?”. Well, with all honesty,
I still can’t think of any good answer to answer that question since I was
still in doubt if I am going to be a technopreneur in four or five years time.
I still have to pursue my studies and pass all my subjects including this
Technopreneurship subject which I am currently enrolled to. There are still lots of challenges that I
might go through to finish this course and a couple of sleepless nights and
series of brain drain cycles just to finish this line. According to some
research that I have done through the internet, technopreneurship is a kind of
business line where the business is relatively connected to the modern
technology. To add some, technopreneurship comes from the combined word
technology and entrepreneurship. Instead of being called as entrepreneur, a
person who deals with this kind of business is called a technopreneur. A
combination of these two words will come up to good and better outcomes.
Technopreneur aims to provide the people with new and emerging new technology
trends, sifting the hype into a business reality. You will get inside the track
on all things that the technology will give a big impact on your business
tremendously.
A
technopreneur is an entrepreneur who is
knowledgeable, creative, innovative, dynamic, dares to be different and take
the unexplored path and very passionate about their work; which I think that
these characteristics are not yet in my body. Too much characteristics eh?
Well, these characteristics can be learned, maybe not now but one step at time
then maybe when I got to develop my inner self then I can have the ability of
becoming a technopreneur.
According to the characteristics above, a technopreneur
should be knowledgeable. Being
knowledgeable to all the changes in his surroundings because as we all know
that the technology also depends on what the trends are.
Second
characteristic is that a technopreneur should be creative. Since technopreneurs are involved with the technology,
and the world has this fast changing environment, a technopreneur should be
creative with his ideas on how he is going to help the society lessen the
struggles. If I ask myself, am I creative enough to be a technopreneur? I will
answer a big no. I have the ideas but these ideas running in my mind are not
money worth it. Since technopreneurship is engaged in business, the ideas that
a technopreneur should be creating are the ones which can be commercialized and
be sold into the business world.
Being innovative is the third characteristic
that a technopreneur should possess. Modern technology is the one who really
rules the world now; almost every individual is now independent on the
technology. Due to this fast changing and growing economy of the places around
the world, people more often chose to what the thing or what is the trend that
can make their life less complicated. There are existing thing now but in the
future people will search more than that knowing that there is much better than
the existing products. That is why being innovative is one of the founding
characteristics that a technopreneur needs to possess.
There
are still a lot of characteristics that a technopreneur should possess. Just
like Steve Jobs’, he was a big risk taker, an opportunity grabber and he has
the self esteem that no one can take away from him. Learning from Steve Jobs’
story of success, a successful man should never be afraid to take a lot of
risks though you can have two different kinds of results to whatever the outcome
maybe of you taking the risk. You may win, then it is a good sign that you were
doing great in your field or maybe doing great that it can bring to a new you,
a new perspective in life where you always wanted to go with. You may fail, but
never dwell on your failures because being a failure is a normal case in an
individual’s life. If you failed, there is no way of staying in that position
but going up. Like Steve Jobs’ who his failures as his lessons so that he will
be able t make through when the time come that he might go through with the
same situation again.
I
would to think that any of the characteristics above mentioned was not yet
inside of me. I have this attitude that satisfies and contented of what I have
achieve in my life. I do not make a way on how to improve more my achievements.
I am also satisfied in my little on ways like making simple program or making a
small system. Well, I can learn them little by little through my experiences
and all in the real world. But can I really see myself being a technopreneur
someday? My answer is why not? I am still a college student but the
facilitators of this college I belong to are already training us to become a
successful somebody in the near future. I may have different goals in my life
but when the time comes and I have decided to channel the inner businesswoman
in me, I would gladly mix my business with the technology. There is a lot of
ways that the technology will be much better than now in a few years time.
As
I stated above that a technopreneur should always think outside the box, that
he should not limit himself in imagining things and creating ideas that may
contribute to the society, I think I still do not have this kind of
characteristic. There are instances in my life that I doubted my imagination. I
only imagined them for fun. And sometimes, I even doubted myself because some
people wwould like to encourage me that they say I can do this but I will only
laugh at them because I am not confident enough to trust my capabalities. I am
the kind of person who is already satisfied with the result of my hard work. If
I get an ace, I’ll be happy. That’s it! I am the kind of person who thinks that
it is okay then it is, I am this kind of person who likes to take a rest than
take time to make things develop and way better than others. I am satisfied
already with what I have achieved whether good or not so good, big or not.
But
being a technopreneur is not that easy I think, you have to be updated of the
current trends. Trends changes almost every day that is why they have to be
more critical on thinking the possible products they will make because what if
it is no longer the trend? Then, making those products which is already out in
the market will be such a huge loss to the team. There are a lot of what ifs.
But then, nothing will happen if you dwell in your what ifs, all you have to do
is to try and if it does not click then you will always have another chance of
making it better.
If
ever I pursue of being a technopreneur someday, first things first, I will have
to and must first change my attitude. I will try not to be satisfied of what
was already being served in front of me, I will seek for better things. Well,
not so much though. I will make myself be responsible enough to take greater
responsibilities not only for myself but also the people who surrounds me. And
lastly, I will improve and enhance and channel the inner businesswoman inside
of me and will strive to create and imagine things like I wanted them to be.
With this rapid evolution of technology, I must be always on the trend and know
what the people want. And of course, becoming a successful individual you
should love your passion. If ever, I’ll choose to be a technopreneur, then I
should be ready to commit myself being technopreneur, I should never give in
the middle of a chaos just because I am tired. I should commit myself in this
hundred percent but not to the point where I’ll forget the things that really
matters example family and friends. They are my support group and I can’t do
all the things without their moral support and encouragements.
3. Would you take the
same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?
Steven
Paul jobs or the world renowned Steve Jobs is a very successful man, a very
successful technopreneur who started from scratch, from the bottom and is now
known to be the mind behind Apple Inc., the company who is also behind the
modern technological products like iPhone which is utilize by almost every
individual. He started from an idea, his company started on his garage; he
started of having loans at the banks where he almost did not get the loan
because the bankers doubted him as a business. But he proves it to himself that
nothing can happen if he will only his dreams be dreams. He worked hard for it,
he had failures on achieving it but it became a lesson for him not to give it
up and continue to strive harder until his sacrifices have paid off. He is the man that proves his self to the world that
nothing is impossible and proves also that he can do a small thing into real
thing. This man is a great inventor which made him to be remarkable in the eye
of everyone and well known in the whole world. He has also proven that all of
his decision was right though he experiencing many failures in life which made
him as one of the successful technopreneur and well known personality not only
in the IT industry but also in the whole world that made him to the spotlight.
He is a total game changer.
The question above says that “Would I take the same career
path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?”. Who wouldn’t? Who wouldn’t want to
take Jobs’ career path? Who wouldn’t want to be the next Steve Jobs? Who
wouldn’t want to own their own company? Who wouldn’t want to be successful? No
one would say no if there is a registration to make to take a career path just
like Steve Jobs’ career. Me either, if I will be given any chance to take the
same career path as Steve Jobs’ took, I will gladly accept it. But, there are
lots of buts. Do I have the same determination as what Jobs’ has?
Steve Jobs’ has contributed a lot. Imagine the world
without his inventions; Apple Incorporation would not exist today and the life
of everybody will not be easier and would not be simpler. Out of Steve jobs
creations, our life becomes easier, faster and simpler. Steve Job’s career path was full of
adventures and misadventures; even he does not know what to do, he still
continually does the things for him that would serve his ambitions. He did not
give up because he knew what is inside of his heart, his dream and his
ambitions in his life.
Unhesitant, I will gladly take the same path as what Steve
has taken. On the chance that I will be given the opportunity to have the same
ability and capability, then why reject or neglect that chance if these
characteristics that Steve Jobs’ has will help me mold the person I wanted
myself to be in the next years and will help me to be one of the successful
person in my chosen field. All things to be considered, everything relies upon
the methods and techniques that I will be using and applying to make things
right. I am right now in the world of where it really relies on the technology
might as well say that I am also in the world where Steve Jobs’ world revolves.
I maybe still an undergraduate but this is an open chance for me to know the
basics and have knowledge on how the IT world really works. Business related or
not, technology will be having its rapid modernization in years time. Being in
this course have been an open door for me to realize of what I may become in
the next years. Also, this has been the ultimate risk I will never forget.
Though, I am so close on giving up, the thought “never give up” still lingers
in my mind every time I wanted to quit and how Jobs’ never gave up on his
dreams and made it into a reality, my mind can still picture it out.
Each one of us imagining about being wealthy, about being
rich and about having those things that is costly, yet it is just a dream.
Steve Jobs’ shows that without hard work and perseverance, nothing will happen.
He also showed that you have to start small, have failures in life and gain
back yourself in order to overcome the battles you might go through. Giving up
on your dreams is not the solution also. You have to make your dream a reality.
Having the same characteristics that Steve Jobs’ has might
help me to become the person I wanted myself to be. A successful career is very
important to an individual. In what kind of career that I will be taking in the
future and my future endeavors, I can encounter both achievements and
disappointments. But the lessons I have learned on how Jobs’ handled this kind
of situation he was into, that will be my motivation to held my chin up higher
so that I will be able to compose myself again and will be ready to face the
battles once more. His enthusiasm really interests me on how have overcome all
those failures he had in his life though not all was shown in the movie.
As
I would look back into the movie and somehow reviewed the story of Jobs’
success, I had put it on my mind that his success was not the easy one. He did
not any lottery, he did not take any chances of winning some promos with a huge
amount of prices instead he took the way where he knew that something good will
make it through even though it takes little by little. Considering all his
hardships, all his teams’ efforts just to make a change in this world. Making
unique innovations on the things that existed just to make the people’s life
way easier and better than anyone could have imagined. Without Jobs’ and his
team, we might still stuck on an era where the technology is not that enhanced
yet though we have this rapid evolution on the technology. There are numerous
things to be considered in order to create a new product that will have a huge
impact not only to the people, but only to the business world where the Apple
Inc. is affiliated.
Taking the same career path that Jobs’ took or making your
own career path of success is the same though. Both have their end games, both
wanted to end up being successful. No
one wanted to be left when every people that surrounds you wants to be as
successful as Steve. It was long way. It will always be a long way. A
challenging one. A tough one. And all you need is to be brave enough. To be
confident enough. To trust yourself. To pick the people whom you will trust. To
be surrounded with the people who has the same dreams as you are. As in
individual full of dreams, I dreamed of taking the same career path like Jobs.
Who knows right? But, I should possess first his characteristics for me to be
able to have the confidence in myself. Steve Jobs was a living proof that
dreams do really come true when you have perseverance and you do it with all
your heart and hard work.
But then, we still do not know what the future will be. I may
want to be technopreneur but we don’t know if the tables will turn. I wanted to
be successful like Jobs but on the profession I will choose. They say if you
love your job, then you will never feel like you’re working on it, I don’t know
the exact quote but it has the same thought though. Just like Jobs and yourself,
you got to choose if you are going to take the same career path like Jobs or
you have to make your own way to your success.
There is nothing wrong choosing the profession what have you wanted as
long as you will value all the lessons you have learned. As long as you love
your job, and you know you have fulfilled your dreams. As for myself, whatever
profession I may take, a technopreneur or a work affiliated to my course, I
will still apply the characteristics that I have learned in watching the movie
that shows how Steve Jobs’ got successful on the career path that he took. I
will bear those lessons in my mind and his story so that if ever I will be able
to face some tough challenges, I am confident that I can make it through just
what Steve Jobs’ did.
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