Steve Jobs was inspired by Japanese company

JJ (Japanese Blogger)
1 min readMar 9, 2021

I introduce a YouTube video about Steve Jobs which I watched today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2mlu292NQ

As all people in the world know, Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple and great innovator. He proposed many new products. Those changed the world greatly, and the iPhone has been preveiled over the world. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2011.

This is a famous thing that Steve Jobs was always wearing the same black turtleneck, blue jeans and sneakers anytime. If you watch a video of his presentation, you could see his clothes.

He decided to wear the same clothes through his travel to Japan. When he traveled to Japan in 80s, he visited SONY and saw that all employees were wearing an uniform. He asked the SONY president about the reason and knew that the uniform was a good to encourage teamwork well.

As he was inspired by that, he tried to propose the same thing when he returned to U.S. Unfortunately, his employees did not agree with it. So, he gave it up but decided to wear the uniform for only himself.

As I did not know his episode, I was surprised to know that. If you want to know more, pleease check the video.

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JJ (Japanese Blogger)

I was born in Japan, and I’m working in Japan. My interest things are statistics, health and Japanese culture. I post news about Japan for travelers.