I was lucky. I found（找到） what I loved to do early in life. Waz and I started Apple in my parents' garage（车库） when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We just released（释放） our finest creation（创造）, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I just turned 30. And then I got fired（开火）.

  How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired（租借） someone who I thought was very talented（ 天才的） to run the company with me. And for the first year or so, things went well. But then our visions（视） of the future began to diverge（(道路等)分叉）, and eventually（终于） we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him. And so at 30, I was out, and very publicly out.

  What had been the focus of my entire（全部的） adult life was gone, and it was devastating（破坏性的）. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous（先的） generation（一代） of entrepreneurs（<法>企业家） down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.