None of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple; it was a painful experience, but it was necessary for my growth.

I was lucky to find what I loved to do early in life when Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage at the age of 20.

I was out of Apple, the focus of my entire adult life, and it was devastating; I felt I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down.

In ten years, Apple grew from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees, but then I got fired.

Looking back on my relationships and experiences has been both challenging and rewarding, including my fantastic early collaboration with Steve Jobs on projects like the Apple II and Macintosh software.

The CEO of a startup needs to be in a learning mindset, as I learned during my time at Apple, where I worked on software but realized I wanted to focus on hardware.

During my time at art school in England, I encountered terrible computers that made me feel technically incapable. However, discovering the Macintosh was a relief; it was straightforward to use and revealed the care taken in its design, which sparked my interest in the values behind product creation.

Being nobody again, starting from scratch, can be empowering and lead to significant personal growth.

Working at a small startup helped me discover my passion for software, as I found it rewarding to build something that could change how people work.