Steve Jobs: Stanford Commencement 2005 — Summary

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Event
Stanford Commencement 2005
Date
2005-06-12
Organizer
Stanford University

TL;DR

Steve Jobs's three-story commencement speech — connecting the dots, love and loss, death — remains one of the most-watched and most-quoted commencement addresses ever delivered, with foundational lessons on career, mortality, and following intuition.

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What was announced / shown

Story 1: dropping out of Reed College and the calligraphy class that shaped Mac typography. Story 2: getting fired from Apple and what came of it (NeXT, Pixar, return to Apple). Story 3: the cancer diagnosis and the closing 'stay hungry, stay foolish' framing.

Why this talk matters

It's 15 minutes. It's evergreen. The summary form is useful when you need a refresher on the three stories or want to share specific quotes ("stay hungry, stay foolish") with attribution context.

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