Steve Jobs' 10 best presentations of all time

With Steve Jobs’ passing, I first want to extend prayers and condolences to his family and loved ones. I as well wanted to pause for a moment to reflect on some of his and his greatest company’s greatest hits. I personally want to thank Steve Jobs and the crew at Apple for helping me in my career.

Interview when they ask me about Apple

I often tell people in an interview when they ask me about Apple and how I bought it at and told my subscribers to buy it at $7 back in March 20003 that without that call, I’m not sure I’d even be in the studio with them. Apple’s wild success and the ride it took me and my investors and my readers on helped build my entire career and even in this column, that continues to this day. Thank you, Steve Jobs.

Two other notes about Steve Jobs that came into my mind as I reflected upon him and my relationship with him as such a long-term investor in Apple AAPL. The first being that Steve Jobs, during passing on near $3 billion in Apple stock to whomever he’s left it all to, would have left them almost $15 billion had he not traded in his stake for a slightly smaller stake with lower strike prices back in 2003 when I was buying the stock.

The one issue I always had with Steve Jobs

And that leads me to the one issue I always had with Steve Jobs and the Apple board, that of backdating Steve’s and other executives’ options prices without telling me and the other shareholders afterwards they’d made that share/option switch that they did tell us about. This is not the time nor the place for that although.

Like most analysts I’m reading, this sad ending to the stewardship and chairmanship of Steve Jobs at Apple doesn’t change my overall stance or bullishness for the stock. I’m holding my Apple steady. That said, I was probably looking to add to my position previously earnings this quarter and I don’t think the risk/reward there feels quite right any more, so unless the stock drops dramatically from its current levels, I’m an Apple holder for now.

And without furthermore ado, here’s the Top 10 Best Apple Commercials of All Time. To watch the Top 5 Best Steve Jobs Presentations of All Time, please click here.

Steve Jobs: "The press and the stock price will take care of themselves" - In a rare Q&A at the first WWDC since his return to Apple, Jobs talks to developers about saying "no," killing OpenDoc and taking his lumps in the press and on Wall Street.

CNBC Titans: Steve Jobs - Irrepressible, irascible, and iconic, Steve Jobs has reigned as the undisputed king of Silicon Valley for the better part of three decades. From his parents' California garage he launched the personal computer revolution and built Apple into the most envied, and valuable, innovation company in the world.

The very first iPod at a low key event in 2001

Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction - Here we see Steve Jobs introducing the very first iPod at a low key event in 2001.

Steve Jobs describes iCloud - in 1997 - A clip from his famous 1997 WWDC Q&A in which he lays out his vision of cloud computing.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs Interview - "I hired the wrong guy" - Here is the extended version of where Steve Jobs talks about Apple, how he came up with the GUI from Xerox, his fall out with Steve Sculley.

Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch and posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com. At time of publication, Cody was net long Apple and Microsoft.