Last Wednesday, one of history’s most legendary and iconic businessmen and visionaries died, leaving behind a world rocked by his sudden, palpable absence and stung by his loss. Of course, we are talking about the late Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple Computer Co., under whose leadership and imaginative vision Apple was born, and revived again from the brink of mediocrity when the company summoned him back after a time he spent starting his own company, Next, in the mid 1980s. He’d been fired by Apple’s then CEO, who’d been appointed by the board to replace Jobs following company wide complaints about his temperamental nature and unpredictable outbursts, and his often volatile encounters with employees who had begun to fear Jobs.
The story ended well, however, with Apple realizing they needed Jobs back if they hoped for the company to have a chance to compete with Microsoft, IBM, and other competitors of that decade. It would take someone with extraordinary vision and charisma to save Apple, and Jobs’ perfectionist streak was needed.
Here is an excellent infographic tribute to the man who saved Apple and brought us the greatest innovations of the digital age. Click to enlarge:
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