My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life.Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was twenty.We worked hard and in ten years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.We'd just released our finest creation the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, and then I got fired.How can you get fired from a company you started?Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me.And for the first year or so, things went well.But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out.When we did, our board of directors sided with him.And so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out.What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months.I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley.But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did.The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.
我的第二个故事是关于爱与失败。我很幸运，在人生很早的时期就找到了我所喜爱的东西。20岁时，我与 Woz 在父母的车库里建立了苹果公司。我们很努力地工作，10年之内，苹果由最初车库中的两个人变成一家拥有4000多员工、价值20亿美元的公司。那个时候我们最棒的产品Macintosh 刚刚推出一年，而我刚刚30岁，之后我被解雇了。你怎么可能被你自己创立的公司解雇？随着苹果的壮大，我们请了一个在我看来非常有才能的人来和我一起管理公司。第一年一切都非常顺利。但是后来我们对于未来的看法出现了分歧，最终我们之间起了争论。争执发生之后，我们的董事会站在了他那一边。就在三十岁那年，我被炒鱿鱼了，一次非常惹人注目的解雇。一直以来都是我成年生活核心的东西，忽然不复存在了，那感觉相当可怕。有几个月的时间，我完全不知道该干什么。我感到自己辜负了前辈企业家的期望，就像接力棒交到我的手里，而我却把它丢掉了。我跟 David Packard 与 Bob Noyce 见面，为自己把事情弄得如此糟糕而道歉。我成了一名众所周知的失败者，我甚至想过离开硅谷。然而有一种东西慢慢地照亮了我。我依然爱着我所爱的东西。发生在苹果公司的事并没能改变这一点。
