Steve Jobs he was presented in various books as an evil person, treating the people around him as inferior, and those in the Apple management believed that the world should also know the good side of the former CEO, the side that manifested itself in the last decade of his life. In this idea, the book Becoming Steve Jobs was launched with a multitude of interviews of the people who run Apple and not only, they provide a multitude of information on how he behaved with the people around him in recent years.
To highlight the fact that despite the problems with the refusal to recognize his child or the harsh way he treated his employees, Steve Jobs was still a good man, below you have 6 stories that prove that he knows how to help the people around him or when they they need.
- He gave a special bonus to John Lasseter, a friend and employee of NeXT, to buy a safe machine that he had to approve first;
- He took the engineers who were part of his team developing Macs on vacation and praised their achievements;
- He helped a stranger to repair his car after it broke down in front of his house;
- He fiercely defended the engineers who worked in his team developing Macs within Apple, including in front of the vice presidents or the board of directors;
- He invited one of the book's authors to watch Toy Story with his children before the company's board of directors or the whole world saw it;
- He returned the hard drive of a MacBook Air owner after it had broken and had already been sent for replacement to a company service.
