Twenty years ago, Steve Jobs shocked the world when he delivered a moving and sensational speech at Stanford University’s commencement ceremony. Now you can watch it in HD. On June 12, 2005, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs delivered a 15-minute speech at the Stanford University graduation ceremony.speech. The speech became one of the most influential graduate speeches in living memory.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the speech, the Steve Jobs Archive has re-released excerpts of the speech. The video, posted to YouTube on Thursday, has been uprated in resolution and is now available on the streaming service at 1080p, 60 frames per second.
It's not as low-resolution and grainy as you've seen before, but all you really need to do is hear the words.
Commencement speeches are among the most memorable and quoted of their kind. It has been viewed over 120 million times and had a significant impact on many people who watched it in the years that followed.
The Steve Jobs archive even mentions how LeBron James used one of the clips to inspire the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016.
For the Apple founder, the book isn't really about technology, but rather covers three stories from Jobs' life. The story covers the "bits and pieces" of dropping out of Reed College, the challenges of love and loss, and the importance of death and life he experienced after being diagnosed with cancer.
Although the speech was shocking, it fell far short of expectations and became the students' third choice after Jon Stewart and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
There are also common student distractions, such as playing beach balls and playing “graduation bingo,” a must-have at graduation. Although they did not realize the content of the speech at the time, they certainly heard it later.
Jobs offered advice to listeners on the verge of entering adult life. This ultimately became part of his legacy that remains valid decades later.