Steve JobsBy Mike Croydon

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•Biography

•Contributions

•Quotes

•Multiple Choice

•Key Terms

Early Life• Born February 24, 1955 to Joanne

Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali

• Adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs

• Clara was an accountant and Paul a machinist

• Lived Mountain View, California

• Considered prankster in school

• Tested well however

Pre Apple• Spent free time during high school at Hewlett-

Packard

• Enrolled at Reed College in Portland

• Dropped out after six months

• Next 18 months taking various creative classes

• Briefly worked for Atari

• Traveled across India experimenting with drugs

Early Apple • Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple

Computers in 1976

• First worked in Job’s family’s garage

• Apple I and Apple II were both out by 1977

• Three years after Apple II was released sales totaled $139 million

• Apple became publicly traded in 1980

ENIAC Apple II

• Weighed thirty tons

• 5,000 operations per second

• Size of large room

•Weighed about 11.5

pounds

•400,000 operations per

second

•Desktop size

Early ‘80s• Hired John Scully as president

• Next few products had flaws and IBM surpassed Apple

• Released Macintosh

• Scully thought Jobs was hurting Apple

• Resigned as CEO in 1985

Outside of Apple• Began NeXT inc.

• Purchased Animation Company from George Lucas

• This company became Pixar Animations Studio

• NeXT floundered, bought by Apple in 1997 for $429 million

• Jobs returned as CEO that year

Revitalizing Apple

• Paid himself $1 per year

• Hired new management

• New stock options

• iMac

Recent Years• Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in

2003

• Had tumor removed in 2004

• Plethora of amazing devices such as iPod, iPhone, iTunes, and iPad

• In 2009, rumors of health issues circulated

• Died October 5, 2011

Political and Diplomatic

• Minimal

• Actively resisted politics

Economic

• Sparked industry that today runs our lives

• Technology has made banking and investing easier

• Employed about 47,000 emplyees

• Ripple effect

Technological•Apple II

•iMac

•iPod http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uW-E496FXg

•iTunes

•iPhone

•iPad

Social

• Prior to Apple, computers were used by business and military

• Broke this pattern

• Continues to provide revolutionary devices that change the way we interact

Cultural

•iTunes

•Pixar

•Computer advances allowed easy sharing of different forms of art

Quotes• “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter

to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what does.”

• “And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.”

• “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something-your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

Multiple Choice•Who was Steve Job’s main partner and friend in Apple?•A. Bill Gates

•B. Steve Wozniak

•C. Thomas J. Watson

•D. Michael S. Dell

•E. John Scully

•What company did jobs found after he left Apple?•A. Microsoft

•B. IBM

•C.NVIDIA

•D. NeXT

•E. Gateway

Multiple Chice•What company did Jobs briefly work for after he left

college?

•A. Atari

•B. Nintendo

•C. Namco

•D. Activision

• E. Capcom

•Which animation company did Jobs buy from George Lucas?

•A. Dreamworks

•B. Disney

•C. Pixar

•D. Tim Burton Animation Co.

• E.Warner Bros.

Multiple Choice•What college did Jobs attend?•A. None

•B. University of Southern College

•C. University of California at Berkeley

•D. Reed College

•E. UCLA

•Which of these was not an Apple innovation?•A. Apple II

•B. Macintosh

•C. iPhone

•D. iPad

•E. ENIAC

Key Terms•Steve Wozniak- Job’s friend and

founding partner of Apple

•Apple I- First Apple product

•Pixar-The animation studio that jobs bought frm George Lucas

•Apple-The company that Jobs and Wozniak founded

• iTunes-Apple’s music sharing program

Conclusion

•Steve Job’s can be described as great thinker and doer

•Had greater influence on technology than anyone else.