NOEMÍ BOND: STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH

Noemí Bond

I'm sure everybody knows this week is very important for the tecnological sector. The Barcelona Mobile World Congress is an important appointment for many people who work in the world of technology. Day by day, the technology changes very fast. For Barcelona is very important this congress because the impact is very high. The number of visitors grows year after year. It's important for job opportunities and for the tourism sector, mainly.

Barcelona, as a destination, is best known in the world, in fact, thanks to this congress. I'd like to mention that I was at the beginning, in the preliminary of the election of Barcelona as a city to organize this congress when many requirements were necessary.

Hotels were required a commitment to be able to provide acommodation and for that reason was created the agency that works in exclusive for this event.

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All the tourism sector was euphoric when Barcelona was chosen for this congress in 2006 and will remain here until 2018. We are very lucky and very proud with this congress and I'm going to talk about a person who has a closer relation with it. Does anyone guess it?

I want to talk a little about Steve Jobs, a person who helped to change the technology in the world mobile but he was also more than this. He was a visionary, an American entrepreneur, a business man, an inventor and an industrial designer. He was the cofounder, chairman and chief executive office of Apple, CEO of Pixar, member of the Walt Disney Company's board of directors, following its acquisition of Pixar, and founder, chairman and CEO of Next.

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Jobs and his friend, Steve Wozniak, are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. He was only 12 years when he saw, for first time, a computer. He was impressed. As you know, Steve Jobs couldn't finish the studies for their high cost. While he was studying, at the same time, he worked very hard and passed for a lot of difficult situations. He travelled to India looking for the inspiration. 

Steve Jobs in 2011

In 1975, he founded Apple working in the garage of his parents. Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic tumor in 2003 and died in October 2011 with 48 years.

I think he had a very intensive life until the end of his life. Very few people can say this. One of the most important things applied Steve Jobs along of his life was taking profit of every adversity, every difficult situation. For example, the first time he must go out of Apple, for him was very difficult but thanks to this he could create other companies that became a success.

In 1997, he returned to Apple. He was the real visionary for the Apple brand. In this important period, he was very important for Apple driver, managing, development for innovation and design different products to the market: the Macintosh computer, the Next computer, iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad.

A detail as a curiosity: the origin of the name Apple. One day when Steve Jobs came back from an apple farm and thought the name sounded fun, spirited and not intimidating.

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As you know, he was sometimes a difficult person with bad manners with some colleagues, workers and partners. After his death, in the interview, all of them also said that he was a genius.

I think his story is really very interesting. I like to share with you a video very inspirational where Steve Jobs appears in the Graduation of Students in the Standford University sending a very impressionant message.

I hope you like it!

Thank you for you attention: "With Apple the spirit of Jobs is alive".

You can't connect the dots looking forward; 
you can only connect them looking backwards. 
So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. 

Steve Jobs