Folks it was just a marketing page just to show what you could publish with the web app HomePage which was part of the iTools suite. Don't take it seriously ! I know a few folks that used to work in iTools and .Mac and it was well known that Steve's web pages where just for demo purpose.
Got a reference? I think it could have been made by a fan. It doesn't have any information that isn't available publicly. With the same phone number appearing in four places, it doesn't seem particularly like Jobs.
When Apple released iTools / .Mac and so on, even recently with Ping they usually reserve a bunch of name for either marketing pages or of their own usage. Many exec have usually their accounts created way ahead before the services goes live, and often Apple product name are reserved or unavailable.
When Apple did introduce iTools at MacWorld January 2000, a few days afterward every employee at Apple got a mac.com/iTools account based on their existing apple.com email address.
I don't know if this is supposed to be some tongue in cheek demo of Apple iTools, but I get the feeling after reading that résumé, that if Jobs had to start from nothing again, he could.
I've no doubt about it. He's done it several times, now. Actually, if anything, I think his success would hamper him. When he left Apple his name was tarnished and he had to prove himself again. I think his success with Apple the second time around would hamper him, as he would come onto a team with people instantly expecting he would transform the company. I don't know how many people push back against him at Apple, but I can all but guarantee nobody would at a new company.
Success is a habit. I bet that most successful individuals who started from scratch, if sent in a foreign country with no connections or resources at all, would recreate their level of success given enough time.
I actually know someone from Somalia who got successful there, got screwed and left to Holland. Got successful there again, and again got screwed and left to Romania. He has a successful business here, and he probably won't get screwed again :P
After the first "failure", his connections helped him rise again.
"Discovered a little animation company that needed a vision."
That's so amazing - or amusing - I absolutely can not tell if this is humbleness, irony, some bragging disguised as humbleness or something totally else ...
Actually he bought Pixar to turn it into a hardware company. John Lasseter is probably the bigger reason why it became such a successful animation company. Of course, thanks to Steve the company survived long enough to discover its true purpose and thanks to Steve got such a great deal with Disney for marketing the initial movies.
It almost died because of Steve as well. In 1994 (shortly before the release of Toy Story) he very nearly sold the company because it was losing so much money.
John Lasseter and Ed Catmull did more to save the company than Jobs ever did ... most accounts I've read of him paint his contributions as "not screwing up quite enough to ruin the company".
Yeah, if you read "The Pixar Touch" you get a good picture of what Jobs hoped to achieve with Pixar (focusing on selling the hardware to consumers). His main contribution was money. I think it was only after Toy Story did he truly "get" how good the computer animated films could be.
It's funny because in the book they describe the brief period where Pixar was owned by George Lucas, and he too did not have faith in computer animated films.
This can't be real. What type of employer would say "Oh, Steve Jobs. Yes, I think I may have heard of you, but let's have a look at your resume before we get serious." And would Steve really write that one of his skills was "That 'vision thing?'"
I think he's being modest for the asset that most clearly has. Being a visionary is his greatest strength, I think he humbles it down by saying it like that.
I'm not contesting Steve's vision. This just seems too cutesy to be serious, by several orders of magnitude. If this was really Steve's home page, I bet he put this up as a joke.
What's interesting to me is I can't imagine why he would need this unless he was looking to move on to his next thing after apple. This isn't a list of accomplishments - it's a resume, geared to sell someone on why this guy should be hired.
