Steve Jobs Presents to the Cupertino City Council (6/7/11)

2011-06-0721:12English

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At this time we have Ceremonial Manners in presentation and it is my honor to call,
I'm going to take all the things out of order and actually it's under oral communication
and as you know, Cupertino is very famous for Apple Computer and we're very honored
to have Mr. Steve Jobs to come here tonight to give a special presentation.
Mr. Jobs?
Welcome Mr. Jobs, looks like you have a fan club here.
Thanks, yeah, thank you.
I was, apples grown like a weed and as you know we've always been in Cupertino.
in a little office park and eventually got the buildings we are in now at the corner
of De Anza and 280.
But we've, and those buildings hold maybe 2,600 people, 2,800 people.
But we've got almost 12,000 people in the area.
So we're renting buildings, not very good buildings either, at an ever greater radius
from our campus.
And we're putting people in those.
And it's clear that we need to build a new campus.
So we're just out of space.
And that doesn't mean we don't need the one we've got.
We do need it.
But we need another one to augment it.
And so we've got a plan that lets us stay in Cupertino and we went out and we bought
some land and this land is kind of special to me.
When I was 13, I think, I called up, Hewlett and Packard were my idols and I called up
Bill Hewlett because he lived in Palo Alto and there were no unlisted numbers in the
phone book which gives you a clue to my age.
And he picked up the phone and I talked to him and I asked him if he'd give me some spare
parts for something I was building called a frequency counter.
And he did, but in addition to that, he gave me something way more important.
He gave me a job that summer, a summer job at Hewlett Packard right here in Santa Clara
off 280, the division that built frequency counters.
And I was in heaven.
Right around that exact moment in time, Hewlett and Packard themselves were walking on some
property over here in Cupertino, in Pruneridge, and they ended up buying it.
And they built their computer systems division there.
And as Hewlett-Packard has been shrinking lately, they decided to sell that property
and we bought it.
We bought that and we bought some adjacent property.
All used to be apricot trees, apricot orchards, and we've got about 150 acres.
We would like to put a new campus on that so that we can stay in Cupertino.
We've hired some great architects to work with, some of the best in the world, I think.
We've come up with a design that puts 12,000 people in one building.
Think about that.
That's rather odd.
12,000 people in a building, in one building.
But we've seen these office parks with lots of buildings and they get pretty boring pretty
fast.
So, we'd like to do something better than that.
And I'd like to take you through what we'd like to do.
So this is supposed to work here.
There we go.
Can you see this?
Yes, we can.
Great.
So here's where we are today, which is on Infinite Loop Drive, again, at the intersection of De Anza and 280.
Mr. Jobs, you can actually draw on the screen.
That's how high-tech we are.
Oh, good.
Use your finger.
So instead of pointing in the air, you can just draw.
I don't really need to draw on the screen.
It's okay.
You can see it clearly.
And what we've done is we've bought this land right here.
We tried to buy the apartments in the corner, but they're not for sale.
So we couldn't buy those.
But we bought everything else.
And the campus we'd like to build there is one building that holds 12,000 people.
And it's a pretty amazing building.
Let me show it to you.
It's a little like a spaceship landed.
But there it is.
And it's got this gorgeous courtyard in the middle, but a lot more.
So let's take a closer look at it.
It's got a circle.
And so it's curved all the way around.
As you know, if you build things, this is not the cheapest way to build something.
There's not a straight piece of glass in this building.
It's all curved, and we've used our experience in making retail buildings all over the world now.
We know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use,
and we want to make the glass specifically for this building here.
We can make it curved like this all the way around the building,
and you can see what it will look like.
It's pretty cool.
Again, today about 20% of the space is landscaping.
Most of it is a big asphalt parking lot, several big asphalt parking lots.
So 20% of it is landscape.
We want to completely change this and we want to make 80% of it landscape.
And the way we're going to do this is we're going to put most of the parking underground
so that we can have 80% be landscaped.
And you can see what we have in mind.
I mean, there's nothing like this on the property now.
It's pretty bad.
Today there are 3,700 trees on the property.
We'd like to just, you know, almost double that.
We've hired one of the senior arborists from Stanford, actually,
who's very good with indigenous trees around this area.
So we'd like to plant a lot of trees, including some apricot orchards.
And again, you can see what it might be like.
And this is some of the infrastructure.
The main building, we have parking underneath the main building,
and that's not enough, unfortunately,
And we have a parking structure here as well.
The building's four stories high, as is the parking structure.
So there's nothing high here at all.
We want the whole place human scale.
It's actually about the same as what we have in Cupertino right now.
And an energy center, we deal with people sitting at computers all day writing software.
and if the power goes out on the grid, we get to send everybody home.
So we have to have backup power to power the place in the event of brownouts and stuff.
And I think what we're going to end up doing is making the energy center our primary source of power
because we can generate power with natural gas and other ways that can be cleaner and cheaper
and use the grid as our backup.
and we think that makes more sense.
We've got an auditorium because we put on presentations,
much like we did yesterday, but we have to go to San Francisco to do them.
And a fitness center and some R&D facilities.
These are just things that we do testing,
and we need some buildings to test in,
and there's hardly any people in them.
So this is roughly the kind of thing that we're thinking about.

Transcript

Machine transcript in the original language. It may contain errors. Select a timestamp to play that moment.

At this time we have Ceremonial Manners in presentation and it is my honor to call,

I'm going to take all the things out of order and actually it's under oral communication

and as you know, Cupertino is very famous for Apple Computer and we're very honored

to have Mr. Steve Jobs to come here tonight to give a special presentation.

Mr. Jobs?

Welcome Mr. Jobs, looks like you have a fan club here.

Thanks, yeah, thank you.

I was, apples grown like a weed and as you know we've always been in Cupertino.

in a little office park and eventually got the buildings we are in now at the corner

of De Anza and 280.

But we've, and those buildings hold maybe 2,600 people, 2,800 people.

But we've got almost 12,000 people in the area.

So we're renting buildings, not very good buildings either, at an ever greater radius

from our campus.

And we're putting people in those.

And it's clear that we need to build a new campus.

So we're just out of space.

And that doesn't mean we don't need the one we've got.

We do need it.

But we need another one to augment it.

And so we've got a plan that lets us stay in Cupertino and we went out and we bought

some land and this land is kind of special to me.

When I was 13, I think, I called up, Hewlett and Packard were my idols and I called up

Bill Hewlett because he lived in Palo Alto and there were no unlisted numbers in the

phone book which gives you a clue to my age.

And he picked up the phone and I talked to him and I asked him if he'd give me some spare

parts for something I was building called a frequency counter.

And he did, but in addition to that, he gave me something way more important.

He gave me a job that summer, a summer job at Hewlett Packard right here in Santa Clara

off 280, the division that built frequency counters.

And I was in heaven.

Right around that exact moment in time, Hewlett and Packard themselves were walking on some

property over here in Cupertino, in Pruneridge, and they ended up buying it.

And they built their computer systems division there.

And as Hewlett-Packard has been shrinking lately, they decided to sell that property

and we bought it.

We bought that and we bought some adjacent property.

All used to be apricot trees, apricot orchards, and we've got about 150 acres.

We would like to put a new campus on that so that we can stay in Cupertino.

We've hired some great architects to work with, some of the best in the world, I think.

We've come up with a design that puts 12,000 people in one building.

Think about that.

That's rather odd.

12,000 people in a building, in one building.

But we've seen these office parks with lots of buildings and they get pretty boring pretty

fast.

So, we'd like to do something better than that.

And I'd like to take you through what we'd like to do.

So this is supposed to work here.

There we go.

Can you see this?

Yes, we can.

Great.

So here's where we are today, which is on Infinite Loop Drive, again, at the intersection of De Anza and 280.

Mr. Jobs, you can actually draw on the screen.

That's how high-tech we are.

Oh, good.

Use your finger.

So instead of pointing in the air, you can just draw.

I don't really need to draw on the screen.

It's okay.

You can see it clearly.

And what we've done is we've bought this land right here.

We tried to buy the apartments in the corner, but they're not for sale.

So we couldn't buy those.

But we bought everything else.

And the campus we'd like to build there is one building that holds 12,000 people.

And it's a pretty amazing building.

Let me show it to you.

It's a little like a spaceship landed.

But there it is.

And it's got this gorgeous courtyard in the middle, but a lot more.

So let's take a closer look at it.

It's got a circle.

And so it's curved all the way around.

As you know, if you build things, this is not the cheapest way to build something.

There's not a straight piece of glass in this building.

It's all curved, and we've used our experience in making retail buildings all over the world now.

We know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use,

and we want to make the glass specifically for this building here.

We can make it curved like this all the way around the building,

and you can see what it will look like.

It's pretty cool.

Again, today about 20% of the space is landscaping.

Most of it is a big asphalt parking lot, several big asphalt parking lots.

So 20% of it is landscape.

We want to completely change this and we want to make 80% of it landscape.

And the way we're going to do this is we're going to put most of the parking underground

so that we can have 80% be landscaped.

And you can see what we have in mind.

I mean, there's nothing like this on the property now.

It's pretty bad.

Today there are 3,700 trees on the property.

We'd like to just, you know, almost double that.

We've hired one of the senior arborists from Stanford, actually,

who's very good with indigenous trees around this area.

So we'd like to plant a lot of trees, including some apricot orchards.

And again, you can see what it might be like.

And this is some of the infrastructure.

The main building, we have parking underneath the main building,

and that's not enough, unfortunately,

And we have a parking structure here as well.

The building's four stories high, as is the parking structure.

So there's nothing high here at all.

We want the whole place human scale.

It's actually about the same as what we have in Cupertino right now.

And an energy center, we deal with people sitting at computers all day writing software.

and if the power goes out on the grid, we get to send everybody home.

So we have to have backup power to power the place in the event of brownouts and stuff.

And I think what we're going to end up doing is making the energy center our primary source of power

because we can generate power with natural gas and other ways that can be cleaner and cheaper

and use the grid as our backup.

and we think that makes more sense.

We've got an auditorium because we put on presentations,

much like we did yesterday, but we have to go to San Francisco to do them.

And a fitness center and some R&D facilities.

These are just things that we do testing,

and we need some buildings to test in,

and there's hardly any people in them.

So this is roughly the kind of thing that we're thinking about.