[Biz] Steve Jobs Pitching Apple

<p>Listen to Founders: https://founders.simplecast.com/episodes/265-becoming-steve-jobs-the-evolution-of-a-reckless-upstart-into-a-visionary-leader (26mins in)</p>the magazine’s reporter encountered Steve manning the Apple Computer booth at a computer fair. “I wish we’d had these personal machines when I was growing up,” Jobs tells him, before continuing on for a total of 224 words: “<p>People have been hearing all sorts of things about computers during the past ten years through the media. Supposedly computers have been controlling various aspects of their lives. </p><p>Yet, in spite of that, most adults have no idea what a computer really is, or what it can or can’t do. </p><p><strong>Now, for the first time, people can actually buy a computer for the price of a good stereo</strong>, interact with it, and find out all about it. It’s analogous to taking apart 1955 Chevys. </p><p>Or consider the camera. There are thousands of people across the country taking photography courses. <strong>They’ll never be professional photographers.</strong> They just want to understand what the photographic process is all about. Same with computers. </p><p>We started a little personal-computer manufacturing company in a garage in Los Altos in 1976. <strong>Now we’re the largest personal-computer company in the world</strong>. We make what we think of as <strong>the Rolls-Royce of personal computers</strong>. It’s a domesticated computer. </p><p>People expect blinking lights, but what they find is that it looks like a portable typewriter, which, connected to a suitable readout screen, is able to display in color. <strong>There’s a feedback it gives to people who use it, and the enthusiasm of the users is tremendous.</strong> We’re always asked what it can do, and it can do a lot of things, but in my opinion the real thing it is doing right now is to <strong>teach people how to program the computer.</strong>” </p><p>Before moving on to a booth where a bunch of kids were playing a computer game called Space Voyager, the repo