Steve Jobs at His First Interview (VIDEO)
Video circulating showing a nervous Jobs and one of his first interviews
"Look, I'm on Television!" marvels a nervous 23-year-old Steve Jobs at his first televised interview.
Jobs, who passed away Wednesday of pancreatic cancer aged 56, was known as the charismatic face of Apple, which he co-founded in 1976 in his basement.
“He was the greatest of American innovators,” said Barack Obama in a White House statement released Wednesday evening.
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Jobs, who is being referred to as the “Edison of the 21st Century,” set the precedent for modern technology with such inventions as the iPhone, the iPod, and the Apple MacBook.
In a Stanford graduation speech delivered in 2005, Jobs told the promising students: “Death is very likely the best single invention of life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
“Right now the new is you,” he told the graduates.
Jobs started the company as a young, naïve 21-year-old without a savings account or a college degree, proving that nothing is impossible with enough gumption and creativity.
"You need to tell me where the restroom is too because I’m deathly ill and ready to throw up at any moment,” Jobs says in the interview.
According to CNN, he left a legacy as an aggressive CEO who incorporated creativity and intuition into the selling of his products.
So who is the new face of American technology? Some point to Tim Cook, who took over from Jobs when he stepped down last month due to his deteriorating health.
However, Cook has already been criticized for the Apple unveiling event earlier this week when the iPhone 4S was revealed rather than an anticipated iPhone 5.
“[Cook] was working a room clearly missing the energy Jobs used to infuse into these events,” contended the Seattle Times.
Others point to the young Mark Zuckerberg, who at age 20 co-founded the most popular social platform Facebook.
“Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you,” Zuckerberg wrote on his personal Facebook page as a dedication to Jobs.
Zuckerberg and Jobs sat on opposite sides of Barack Obama at the president’s dinner with technology business leaders in California, 2011.
Regardless of who will follow the Jobs legacy, critics contend that Jobs changed the way the world thinks and communicates.
