Shaadi tribute to Jobs
By Pulkit Sharma

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I (Reema) have a profile on India’s No. 2 matrimony website Shaadi.  Bharatmatrimony is the market leader but Shaadi dominates in some cities.  Getting to the point, what does matrimony website Shaadi have to do with iconic tech guru and Apple founder Steve Jobs?  Even I could not see any link between an Indian Shaadi site and the greatest tech genius of our generation till I read the following ‘In Memoriam’ on their website. 

While paying tribute to Apple’s Steve Jobs, Shaadi.com has also praised themselves in the obituary.  Is this OK or in bad taste? The following tribute to Steve Jobs in on the Shaadi website.  Towards the end of the tribute Shaadi describes itself as ‘one of the most innovative companies in the world’.

Tribute reads as:

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Steve Jobs will be known to his friends, colleagues and followers as a "Visionary". A Visionary who has changed the lives of many and will be deeply missed, most of all by his family.

His greatest love was for his wife Laurene and his three kids. He met his wife Laurene Powell in 1989 while speaking at Stanford's graduate business school. Jobs was married to Laurene for 20 years. They got married on March 18, 1991, in a ceremony at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.

Once he skipped a meeting to take Laurene out on their very first date. This is what he had to say "I was in the parking lot with the key in the car, and I thought to myself, 'If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman?' I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town and we've been together ever since."

Steve Jobs loved his family immensely and has reached such heights and achieved this success because his family was always there to support him.

In 2005, he said in an interview: "That was one of the things that came out most clearly from this whole experience [with cancer]. I realized that I love my life. I really do. I've got the greatest family in the world, and I've got my work."

Shaadi.com is known as one of the most innovative companies of the world today. Like millions of others we too have been inspired by Steve Jobs himself and will continue to follow in his footsteps in the years to come.

Our condolences are with Laurene and the entire family.
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Rs. 1000 has been couriered to Reema for this insightful Tip.  At her request, her Surname is not being published.

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