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but there were still people willing to back him With hard cash.
但是當時真的有人愿意用現金讓喬布斯回去繼續當
One of them was self-made texan billionaire
其中一個人就是德克薩斯州的總統候選人,
And former presidential candidate ross perot.
億萬富翁Ross PerotOne
He saw how wounded jobs had been by apple.
他知道喬布斯在蘋果公司有多么成功和卓越
I think at first it was a tremendous disappointment,
我想一開始那確實是一種巨大的失落感，
Which I can certainly understand.
我能理解那種心情.
Secondly, he picked himself up, dusted himself off,
第二點，他重新站起來，重新審視了自己
And started all over again with very little hesitation,
毫不猶豫地開始了重新來過
And I really admired that.
我真的非常贊賞這一點.
You know, otherwise you could sit around in a dark room
你知道嗎，換成別人你會整日坐在一間黑屋子里，
And sulk about it, but that's not steve.
然后悶悶不樂 但是那不是史蒂夫.
Steve started a company called next
史蒂夫成立了另外一家叫做NeXT的公司
To do a computer that was gonna be what he thought Apple should have been.
建造他心目中的蘋果電腦
Uh, to aim it at the education market because they
目標是教育市場因為他們……
Apple had had conspicuous success in education.
蘋果在教育市場的成績很出眾
There were some people he could steal
他認為他能夠從蘋果的教育市場中，
from apple To market to that segment,
竊取一部分 市場用戶，
And he thought starting small made sense.
這樣他認為是可行的
but even starting small needs big money.
但是即使從這一小部分開始，也需要大量的資金
I invested $20 million in next.
我為NeXT公司投入了2000萬美元
He contacted me, asked me to be a principal investor
他聯系到了我，希望我能成為主要投資方，
And to serve on the board with him,
和他一起開發主板
And I agreed to do it just because of my support for him,
我同意了，僅僅出于我對他的支持
And there was no question in my mind that if he
我從來沒有想過他會
If he wanted to do it, it would get done.
如果他想做，他真的就能做成
He's great with attracting and motivating The best of the best people.
他非常善于拉攏和鼓動那些精英
He's great at encouraging men to be creative
他非常善于用獎勵刺激員工創新，
And come up with new ideas and not just be little robots,
有新的想法，而不是機器人般的工作。
Which many big companies just want you to be a little robot
這種工作在很多大的公司都會有，希望你像小機器人一樣，
And do what you're told to do,
做他們讓你做的事情,
And the last thing they want to hear from you is a creative idea.
最重要 創意是他們最想從你身上聽到的事情
Steve loved those creative ideas,
史蒂夫喜歡那些有創意的點子
And that was a magic part of the success of next.
這就是NeXT成功的魔力所在
