Steve Jobs

By: Jazznesia Hubbard

American History

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STEVE JOBS

STEVE PAUL JOBS

Early Life

• Born on February 24, 1955

• San Francisco• Adopted by Paul

(machinist) & Clara Jobs (accountant)

• Moved to Mountain View, California at age 5.

• Monta Loma Elementary• Cupertino Junior High

• Homestead High School (Cupertino, California)

• Enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon

• Dropped out after one semester, but continued

to audit classes.“ If I had never dropped in in that single calligraphy course in college the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.”

• 1974 Jobs took a job as a technician at Atari, Inc. in

Los Gatos, California• Jobs returned to Atari and

was assigned to create a circuit board for the game

“Breakout” $100.• Jobs knew little about the

circuit break and offered his partner Wozniak to spilt

the fee if he could do it.

• Wozniak reduced the chip to a design so tight it was impossible to reproduce.

• Atari offered a bonus of $5,000 but Jobs didn’t tell

Wozniak. • Wozniak hadn’t found out

about the bonus until 10 years later, and said he would’ve gave Jobs the money if he needed it.

EARLY CAREER

• Jobs and Wozniak started Apple in 1975.

• Wozniak invented the Apple 1 computer in

1976.• Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne

(a former employee of Atari) founded the

computer on Jobs parents garage in order to sell it.

• 1978 Jobs recruited Mike Scott from National

Semiconductor to serve as CEO.

• In 1983, Jobs lured John Sculley from Pepsi-Cola

to serve as the new Apple CEO.

CAREER

“ Do you want to sell sugar water for he rest of your life or do you want to come with me and change the world?”

• 1984 Jobs introduced the Macintosh.

• May 24, 1985 Jobs was removed from from his managerial duties as the

head of Macintosh division.

• Five months later Jobs resigned and founded the NeXT Inc. the same year.

CAREER

“The heaviness of being

successful was replaced by

the lightness of being a

beginner again, less sure

about everything. It freed

me to enter one of the

most creative periods of

my life.”.

• NeXT Computer was founded in 1985 by Jobs

with $7 million. • NeXT transitioned fully to software development with the

release of NeXTSTEP/Intel.• 1996 NeXT Software Inc. released

WebObjects.• WebObjects was used to build and

run the Apple Store, MobileMe services, and the iTunes Store.

NEXT COMPUTER

• In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group

(later renamed Pixar) • Jobs was credited as executive producer for the box office hit

Toy Story.

PIXAR AND DISNEY

• In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for

$429 million.• The deal was finalized in

later 1996, Jobs was brought back into the

company.• NeXTSTEP evolved into

Mac OS X, under Jobs’s guidance the company

increased sales significantly with the introduction of the iMac and other products.

RETURN TO APPLE

• Appealing designs and powerful branding have worked well for Apple.

• In 2000, Jobs officially dropped the “interim”

modifier from his title at Apple and became permanent CEO.

• The iPod line was released on November

10, 2001.• June 29, 2007, Apple

entered the cellular phone business with the

introduction of the iPhone

“iCEO” “iPod”

“I”

• Jobs’s design sense was influenced by the

Buddhism he experienced in India while on a 7

month spiritual journey.

• Jobs only earned $1 a year as CEO.

• He held 5.426 million Apple shares. 138 million shares in Disney, and his

net wealth was $8.3 billion in 2010

• 42nd wealthiest American

WEALTH AND DESIGINS

• Jobs had four children.• His first child Lisa

Brennan-Jobs was born in 1978, by his long time

partner Chris Ann Brennan.

• He later married Laurene Powell and had 3 more children Reed, Erin and

Eve.• They currently live in

Palo Alto, California.

• In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

• For 9 months he refused to undergo surgery for

his cancer, a decision he later regretted when his health started to decline.

• Jobs died at his California home on October 5, 2011

from a relapse of his previously treated cancer.

FAMILY AND DEATH

APPLE PRODUCTS