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Steve Jobs' old resume from his mac.com page

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127 pointsnikcub43 comments

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.

The account name (steve@mac.com) has been used in a lot of material published by Apple as an example email address, .Mac account, or Apple ID account.

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.

On the first Apple employment: "Learned many things, including do's and don'ts for building executive teams."

Snide remark of the year?

Wish he wrote those do's and don'ts down.

not sure how it can apply to a startup, but it would be 'do not hire John Sculley to run your company'

Unless your company is PepsiCo, that is.

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.

The point, sadly, seems to be moot.

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.

What do you base that theory on? How can I trust you that "success is a habit"?

It is certainly interesting if it has merit, though.

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.

Can you say that "getting screwed" is a habit too then?

Well, except for the fact that there's no way in hell he could buy health insurance, but in business terms, he certainly could.

Does he need insurance if he can pay for the doctors himself?

It wouldn't be starting from "nothing" if he got to keep his zillions of dollars.

Ah, that's right.

This was mostly a slightly tongue-in-cheek demo of iTools. His movie page had kid actors on holiday and his steve@mac.com address isn't his real one.

However I have no doubt that he was involved in the content of all.

I used this .Mac template for the CV that got me my first startup job.

More interestingly, this site first was noticed by Wayback on September 25, 2000. (Presumably about the time it was first published).

Apple's homepage at that time: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20001008232304/http://apple...

It's fascinating how little the homepage has changed over the years.

"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.

I remember reading something along the lines of 'Jobs saw Pixar as the next SGI' - which matches a lot of what has been said in Pixar biographies

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.

That could be true too; primarily because I wonder what the motivation for putting it up would be?

I highly doubt to find a new job outside Apple - so that would make sense.

It used to be the marketing page for iTools (which became mac.com which became MobileMe).

I used to think it was a nice (slightly tongue in cheek) way of promoting the service.

That's a remarkably informal tone of writing for a resume. Is Steve Jobs just casual or have resumes gotten more formal?

I have great experience, lots of energy, a bit of that "vision thing"

Yeah, just a bit of vision thing :)

its likely fake. homepage.mac.com was for public content, kinda like geocities.

This résumé looks far better than many I come across today, aesthetically.

Wow! Rounded corners!

Curious as to why he wrote "Left in 1986 to decide which step to take NeXT" under his first stint at Apple. I thought he was fired by John Sculley.

It's not a lie; it's magical.

The Apple board reduced Steve Jobs's role at Apple to ceremonial/figurehead. Steve Jobs actually resigned from Apple.

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

Apologize if you realized this, but I think it's just a pun about his company called 'NeXT'

"references: available on request"

I wonder who will Steve Jobs ask for references...woz? Bill gates?...oh yes i think it would be Mark Zuckerberg..haha

guys..seriously is thing real? i always thought it was made by some fan boy

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.

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