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.
Watch the original talk on YouTubeWhat 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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