Steve Jobs on Early Rejection
Historical Account★★★“So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary; we’ll come to work for you.’ And they said ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.” Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer.
The point
Even revolutionary ideas can face repeated rejection before finding success, as Steve Jobs experienced when major companies dismissed his personal computer venture.
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under a minute · 95 words
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