Tell about Steve Jobs and his story of success ?

They eventually separated, but remained in contact and had been involved with each other even while seeing different people.

In 1973, Wozniak designed his own version of the classic video game Pong and gave it to Jobs upon completion. Jobs took it down to Atari Inc., and they gave him a job.

Nolan Bushnell, the co-founder, described Steve Jobs as being a difficult but valuable person to work with, commenting that he was often the brightest person in the room, and he would make sure everyone knows it.

Jobs worked at Atari to save money for his long awaited trip to India. At this point he was living in a Los Gatos cabin, reading Be Here Now, listening to South Indian music, and sitting on a Japanese meditation pillow.

Before he left for India, he gave Brennan (who would visit him at the cabin) a $100 bill that he earned at Atari.

Steve Jobs dreamed of going to India in search for enlightenment. He asked his boss at Atari, Inc. to fund his journey, which he did but only up to Germany.

There, Jobs had to work on fixing Atari machines to continue his journey.

Jobs and Kottke traveled to India to meet a famous guru, who had died by the time they arrived.

Jobs described his return to America as more of a cultural shock rather than going to India.

The people in India, particularly in the countryside, think in an entirely opposite way.

Jobs admired the fact that they used their intuition instead of their intellect, and their intuition proved to be far more developed than the rest of the world.

Rational thought is the great achievement of Western civilization, Jobs believed.

The Indian villages never learned it, but they discovered the power of intuition and experiential wisdom.

In some ways, it could be valuable, in some ways not.

“It was one of the first times that I started to realize that maybe Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx, and Neem Kairolie Baba put together,” Jobs later commented. Nevertheless, Jobs continued practicing Zen Buddhism throughout his life.

Jobs lived in his parent’s backyard upon his return from India.

He converted the backyard toolshed into his bedroom with a sleeping bag, some books, a candle, and a meditation pillow.

At this time, Jobs still frequented Friedland’s All One Farm and continued practicing Zen with Brennan. One day in 1975, he shuffled into the Atari office barefoot; looking all hippie-like, and carrying a copy of Be Here Now which he handed to Allan Alcorn (who worked as an engineer at Atari and who built Pong game as a training exercise) before asking if he could have his job back.

Soon Jobs resumed his job at Atari, working mainly at night. Wozniak, who had an apartment nearby, often came by after dinner to hang around and play video games.

When Nolan Bushnell asked Jobs to design a circuit board for an arcade video game, Breakout, he knew that Wozniak would be the man doing all the heavy lifting.

Atari paid $100 for each transistor–transistor logic (TTL) chip that was eliminated in the machine.

Jobs asked him for help and proposed splitting the fee if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Steve Wozniak managed to reduce the TTL chip count to 46.

As a result, a game that would usually take developers months, Wozniak developed in four days.

While Woz drew out the design on paper, Jobs sat next to him implementing the design by wire-wrapping chips into a breadboard.

When they completed the product, Jobs and Woz split $700 bucks for the job.