"I was fired from the very company I created… and it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me."
When I was born, my biological parents gave me up for adoption.
That moment — even though I couldn't remember it — left a mark that never fully faded.
My adoptive parents gave me love, warmth, and stability.
But inside, a quiet voice kept asking: Why wasn't I enough to be kept?
That question became my engine.
That pain — my fuel.
I was determined to build something so meaningful that the world couldn't look away.
At 20, in my parents' garage, I co-founded Apple.
No investors. No safety net. No plan B.
Just an idea — and an obsession to make technology beautiful, simple, and human.
For a while, it worked.
Then life flipped the script.
At 30, I was forced out — fired by the same company I had built from nothing.
It felt like exile.
Like being thrown out of your own home. 💼⚡
For months, I wandered in the dark — humiliated, angry, lost.
But somewhere in that emptiness… a spark reignited.
I started again.
From zero.
I built NeXT — and bought a small animation studio that would soon become Pixar.
And while I was rebuilding, life had a strange way of coming full circle:
Apple bought NeXT — not to hire me back, but to buy the technology I'd created.
That's how I returned.
This time, stronger.
Wiser.
Free from the need to prove — driven instead to create.
Together, we launched the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone.
We didn't just design products — we redesigned how people live, dream, listen, and connect.
Behind every headline was a man once rejected, adopted, and fired —
who refused to let any of it define him.
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Because sometimes the greatest breakthroughs are born from heartbreak.
Sometimes the fall is what gives you wings.
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"Life will hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Because what feels like an ending… might just be the start of something extraordinary."
— Steve Jobs
