The Summary of “Steve Jobs’ Speech at Stanford”

The Summary of “Steve Jobs’Speech at Stanford” In the speech, “Steve Jobs’ Speech at Stanford”,Jobs starts his speech with joking about himself,’I never graduated from college and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation’. Then he tells three stories in his life instead of telling students the big deal.

The first one is about connecting the dots. In this story, he talks about his birth, his parents and his college. College is the beginning of his life, but he just stays in the college for 24 months. He stays as a drop-in for 18 months or so before hereally quits. However, the 18 months become the turning point of his life. In 18 months, he takes the interesting classes like the calligraphy instruction. Because he has learned the knowledge of calligraphy, wonderfultypography is designed into Macintosh after 10 years.

As for the second story, it’s love and loss. The process of his enterprise is not plain sailing. He and Woz set up Apple at his parents’ garage and Apple is grown successful in the next 10 years. However, when he is 30 years old, he is fired by the company. After the failing period, he decides to start a new business. During the next five years, heset up a company named NeXT and another company calledPixar. At the same

time, Apple is on the decline, so after a remarkable turn of events, Apple buys NeXT and he returns to Apple and the technology he developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance。

Death is his third story. In 2009, he is diagnosed with cancer. Luckily, his cancer is a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. In the process of curing cancer, he has thought many things and facesthe death with an optimistic attitude.

At the end of the speech, he sends ‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’ to the graduates.