How Steve Jobs Built a $3T Empire Getting Fired from His Own Company

How Steve Jobs Built a $3T Empire Getting Fired from His Own Company How did a college dropout who sold his used van to build circuit boards in a garage get fired from his own company, only to return and engineer the most valuable enterprise in human history? In this tactical business autopsy from Naked Founders, we dissect Steve Jobs's true operational architecture: the Xerox PARC graphical interface leap, surviving the wilderness years with NeXT and Pixar, slashing 70% of Apple's bloated product lines in 1997, locking down the global supply chain with Tim Cook, and engineering the vertical hardware-software ecosystem that prints billions in App Store tolls. No aesthetic myths. Pure product unit economics, platform moats, and corporate turnaround strategy. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 The Los Altos Garage: Apple I & Apple II 00:20 Subscribe to Naked Founders 00:40 Seducing Xerox PARC & The 1984 Macintosh 01:20 The Boardroom Coup: Fired from His Own Company 02:00 NeXT, Pixar & The Wilderness Years 02:50 Apple 90 Days from Bankruptcy: The NeXT Acquisition 03:20 Disciplined Subtraction: Killing 70% of Products 03:50 The iMac G3 & Digital Hub Vision 04:20 The iPod + iTunes Razor-and-Blade Engine 05:00 The 2007 iPhone Disruption & The 30% App Store Toll 05:50 Vertical Supply Chain Monopoly with Tim Cook 06:40 The Reality Distortion Field & Radical Simplicity 07:20 Hardware + Software Moats 08:10 The Ultimate Founder Comeback Lesson Subscribe to Naked Founders for weekly raw business autopsies breaking down the world’s greatest founders. #SteveJobs #Apple #NakedFounders #BusinessBreakdown #iPhone #Entrepreneurship #BusinessAutopsy #TechHistory