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Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. A true visionary, he will be missed by people who not only used his product but got inspiration from him. His vision allowed him to defer credit to the team that build the company and create a fierce loyalty in his costumers. Along with his many inspirational words in Standford's Commencement Speech we have dictum about art: Real Artists Ship and Real Artists get paid. Both of which are really good ones I think.

Steve Jobs was not perfect, but he did have the courage of his convictions and dared take one the hyper conservative world of running a corporation with an attitude of running a start-up. Like the apt writer from Ars Tecnica, , summed up "In a post-Steve-Jobs world, there is no longer an excuse for large corporations to be less bold than start-ups."

He will be missed by me, because in a world where people can seem to sit and look for opportunities to discourage you, it is great to see one daring and succeeding monumentally at creating his dreams.

No all industries are or will be as successful as a Tech company or Apple can be, but that he made it, gives hearts to those that take upon big dreams, to those that follow a beat that others can't quite hear yet. What he did wasn't magic or something that he only could do, but replicable.

Even though Steve is gone I intend to continue to "Think differently."
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