Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, the company he built

5 Feb 2026 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:30

In this brief monologue, Dan Novaes recounts how Steve Jobs was publicly ousted from Apple, the very company he founded, an event that would typically signal the end for most entrepreneurs. Instead, Jobs treated the setback as a liberation, acquiring Pixar and learning to build stronger teams and products. When he later returned to Apple, he came back as a more refined operator rather than the original visionary founder. Novaes distills the experience into a core lesson: early successes foster confidence, while failures cultivate judgment, and both are essential for creating legendary enterprises. The video concludes with a promotional call to follow for free entrepreneurial hacks.

Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, the very company that he started, the company named after his vision, publicly humiliated. For most founders, that's the end. For Jobs, it was freedom. He started next. He bought Pixar. He learned how to build better teams with better products. When he returned back to Apple, he wasn't the same founder. He was a refined operator. The lesson here is that early success teaches confidence, failure teaches judgment. And both are required to build something legendary. Sick of wasting all this money. Follow us and get all of our hacks for free.