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Birth• Born February 24,

1955 in San Francisco, CA– Joanne Simpson and

Abdulfattah John Jandali

• Put up for adoption– Prospective parents

need to send him to college

• Paul and Clara Jobs– Lower-middle class

couple (not ideal)

The house Jobs grew up in

Childhood• Moves to Santa Clara (Silicon) Valley• Disorderly child, does not care about school

• 4th grade teacher – Imogene “Teddy” Hill – Bribed Jobs with $5 bills and candy– Skips 5th grade Crittenden Middle School

• Bullied– 11 years old– Says he will stop going to school if he isn’t

transferred– Jobses move to Los Altos Cupertino Junior

High

Teenage Years• In Los Altos, Jobs becomes increasingly

curious about electronics that filled neighbors’ garages

• Homestead High School• Takes popular electronics class– Befriends Bill Fernandez – Neighbor – introduced him to

Steve Wozniak in 1969

• Works at Hewlett-Packard Companyin summer

Mr. McCollum’s Electronics 1 class

Jobs

The Steves• Wozniak & Fernandez –The Cream Soda Computer

– Little computer board; intrigued Jobs • High school pranks• “Phone phreaks” – early computer hackers that built

“blue boxes”– Devices that fooled AT&T’s long-distance switching

equipment allowed to make phone calls for free– Sold to Cal-Berkeley students

Reed College• A private liberal arts

college in Oregon– Very expensive, but parents

vowed to pay for college

• Jobs drops out– Felt that college was waste

of money

• Eastern mysticism– Strange philosophies: fasting,

only eating fruit, etc.

Atari• 1974 – got a job

at arguable the first video game company

• Nolan Bushnell– Atari’s founder/

made pinball machines

– Inspiration for Jobs

College-21st Century

• Steve Jobs persuaded his friends, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne to help him construct and distribute computers.

• Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stock in the company two weeks after, for $2,300, would be worth $35 Billion today.

• Wozniak and Jobs later that year, got funding from Mike Markkula Jr. a retired millionaire from Intel.

• Needed to find an executive to help manage the company.

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College-21st Century (cont’d)

• Recruited Mike Scott in 1978 to serve as CEO, but was later replaced– After firing 40 people, he stated, “I used to say

that when being CEO at Apple isn’t fun anymore, I’d quit. But now I’ve changed my mind – when it isn’t fun anymore, I’ll fire people until it’s fun again.”

College-21st Century (cont’d)

• In 1983, John Sculley, A pepsi executive, was persuaded to replace Mike Scott.

• He was told by Steve Jobs – “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life,

or do you want to come with me and change the world?”• Sculley ended up being a very good CEO for Apple, leading to

most of it’s progression as a business.

College-21st Century (cont’d)

• On January 24th, 1984, Apple announced the realease of the first Macintosh computer.– First commercially successful small computer with a

Graphical User Interface.– Headed by Steve Jobs

• An industry wide slump toward the end of 1984 led to Jobs being fired from Apple

College-21st Century (cont’d)

• Jobs went on to found another computer company, The NeXT computer.– Very expensive, very high quality computer.

• Because the computer was so cost prohibitive, the company had a hard time selling computers, and eventually transitioned into software development in 1993.

College-21st Century (cont’d)

• In 1986, Jobs bought Pixar for $10 million• Led to much of his early financial wealth• Sold Pixar to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 billion

College-21st Century (cont’d)

• In 1996, Apple bought the NeXT computer company, bringing Jobs back to Apple.

• He ended many programs he saw as obsolete.• Many of the software from NeXT was integrated

into Mac’s.– NeXTSTEP evolved into Mac OS X

• In 2000, Jobs took over as CEO of the company– Led to much of the branching out of the company in

recent years.

21st Century – Death

• Greatest innovator of the 21st century according to PCmagazine in the field of technology

• Made legendary accomplishments at 54– Music players, music

software, digital Apple store, laptops, tablets and even cellular phones

iPod

• Apple created a product that far exceeded the “big and clunky or small and useless” digital music players.

• The team of engineers came out with a music player on Oct. 23, 2001 with a 5 GB harddrive that could fit “1,000 songs in your pocket”

iPhone• The development of the iPhone

began in 2005 by Steve Jobs; wanted Apple to investigate touch screens

• Created through a secret collaboration with AT&T and was released on June 29, 2007

• Was a huge success; a total of 73.5 million iPhones sold by the end of 2010.

• Apple currently holds more than 50% of the total profit of global cellphone sales.

iPad• The first iPad released on

April 30, 2010– 3G (provided by AT&T)

and Wi-Fi connecting capabilities

• More successful than the original iPhone; sold 300,000 on the first day and sold 15 million total

• iPad 2 released on March 11, 2011– 33% thinner and twice as

fast than first

Death of a Genius

• On, October 5th, 2011, Jobs passed away from pancreatic cancer

• "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being [. . .]”

RIPSteve Jobs 1955-2011