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The Trait: Determination
The Entrepreneur: Steve Jobs
The Company: Apple/NeXt/Pixar
Perhaps no net entrepreneur has exhibited additional determination than Steve Jobs. In his currently famous speech at Stanford University's 2005 commencement, Jobs explained how he was thrown out of Apple within the mid Nineteen Eighties by the board of administrators.
"At age 30, I was out", Jobs remembers - "and terribly publicly out." The lifetime of an entrepreneur is never free from anxiety, however nothing compares to being ousted from the corporate you founded and watching others run it once it becomes a household name.
The book "iCon" reveals that Jobs apparently contemplated suicide following the crisis. whereas lesser businessmen would have crumbled, Jobs took his fall from grace as a challenge, ...
beginning two independently successful corporations from scratch (NeXt and Pixar) and eventually returning to rescue Apple from the brink of failure, spearheading its current digital music and media-driven renaissance. while not the determination to stay in Silicon Valley,
Jobs might never have came to prominence or led Apple to the market dominance it enjoys nowadays.
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