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The Co-Founder and CEO of Apple Computers and the Pixar animation
studio, Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) ignited the personal computer
revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the
personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. At age 20, Jobs
founded Apple in his parents' garage with $1,300 he raised by
selling his old Volkswagen and his parents' calculator. Today,
Apple leads the industry in innovation with its award-winning
desktop and notebook computers, and with leading consumer and
professional software applications. Apple led the digital music
revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online
music store. It set the pace for the smart phone sector with the
innovative iPhone, and dominates the tablet computer market with
its wildly popular iPad. Jobs's animation venture, Pixar, has
created some of the most successful and beloved animated films of
all time: Toy Story; A Bug's Life; Monsters, Inc.; Finding Nemo;
and The Incredibles. In 2006, Pixar merged with The Walt Disney
Company in a $7.4 billion deal that made Steve Jobs the largest
individual shareholder in Disney. He announced his decision to
retire as CEO of Apple in 2011, shortly before his untimely death
at age 56. Steve Jobs was still a mischievous 26-year-old
iconoclast when he addressed the Academy of Achievement at its 1982
Summit in New Orleans, Louisiana. Steve Jobs participated in the
Academy's Summit at the suggestion of his mentor Bill Hewlett who
attended the 1981 Summit as a Golden Plate honoree when it was held
in Dallas, Texas. Jobs spoke twice at the 1982 gathering, in an
afternoon symposium session and at the evening's award ceremonies,
after receiving the Academy's Golden Plate Award; both addresses
are heard in this audio podcast. He exhorts the Academy's student
delegates to seek out the widest possible variety of experience and
learn to think for themselves. He asks the students to retain their
idealism, and to create a better world for future generations.
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