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Jul 9, 2015 · Here's the gutsy way 12-year-old Steve Jobs landed a summer job at HP. Cold calling usually gets you nowhere. Unless you happen to have the pluck of pre-teen Steve Jobs, and a copy of the Palo ...
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How internships helped Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Elon Musk plan out their careers. When Steve Jobs was in high school, he cold-called Hewlett-Packard’s co-founder Bill Hewlett to request some ...
Nov 16, 2023 · Steve Jobs had once managed to land an internship at HP while still in school by cold-calling the company’s CEO. Jobs at that point was just 12 years old, and had found Bill Hewlett’s number from the local phone directory and dialed it. “I called up Bill Hewlett when I was twelve years old and he lived in Palo Alto.
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Case in point: At 12, Jobs wanted to build a frequency counter, but he didn't have the parts. Ever sensible, he suspected that Bill Hewlett, then the CEO of HP, might have some extras. And so ...
Oct 25, 2011 · When Jobs was in grade eight, he called up HP founder Bill Hewlett to ask him for a part for a frequency counter he was building. Hewlett, impressed with the kid's gumption, offered him a summer job.
Nov 15, 2011 · At age 12 I called up Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett-Packard). ‘Hi I’m Steve Jobs and I’m building a [frequency something or other]…He listened and he gave me the parts and he gave me a job in the summer. About raising money to build the printed circuit board for the Apple 2 computer I sold my VW bus (this is California in the 1970s) and he ...
Jul 9, 2015 · Case in point: At 12, Jobs wanted to build a frequency counter, but he didn't have the parts. Ever sensible, he suspected that Bill Hewlett, then the CEO of HP, might have some extras.
