Young Steven Jobs

8/3/2019 Young Steven Jobs

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Born on February 24th, 1955 in San

Francisco, California

Put up for adoption a week after birth

Adoption was finalized under the

condition that Steven would attendcollege


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Skipped 5th grade

Took his first electronicsclass in high school

After school, attended lectures at the

Hewlett-Packard company where he metSteve Wonzniak during work


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Graduated high school in 1972

Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon

Dropped out after one semester

Slept on his friends dorm room floor anddropped in on classes of interest


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Returned to California in 1974 and was hired as

a technician for Atari

Attended meetings atWozniaks Homebrew

Computer Club

Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in

building computers


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Born on April 1st, 1976

Apple I designed and prototype built

First single board computer with built-in

video interface


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Apple II designed in the following year

Operating System loaded automatically

Smaller Components & built-incircuitry

In 1976, Jobs looked to hire apublic relations agency to helpadvertise


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Most investors turned Apple down

Retired Intel executiveM

ikeM

arkkuladecided to invest

Markkula became chairman

of Apple inMay 1977


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Became publicly tradedcompany in 1980

Launched LISA in 1983

First commercialcomputer to use GUI

Unpopular due to its fewsoftware programs and highprice


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Macintosh created to compete with PC

Marketed for friendliness, not just amindless machine

Very popular sold approximately

70,000Macs in the first 100 days


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Sales began to plunge

Wozniak quit Apple in 1985

Board members of Apple met on May

28th, 1985 and each voted on the removal

of Steve from the company


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After taking time off, Jobs wanted to

get back to Apple and his love for

computers

Decided to start his own

company

Founded NeXT Computer in 1989


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NeXT turned a profit for the first time in

1992

NeXT software needed to be made more

reliable and compatible for consumers

Company slowly starts going downhill


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Jobs was criticized for wasting money

that belonged to the company in 1993

Closed a NeXT factory in that February

Laid off half of the employees and

stopped making computers


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Jobs had to make drastic decisions

Microsoft purchased NeXT software

Microsoft came up with $150 million tostake in Apple

Saved a dying company.


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Jobs management style had drastically

changed

Relaxed and was open to suggestions

Employees commented that Jobs made

experimenting with electronics fun


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Jobs began looking into alternatives to

Object Linking and Embedding

Created OpenDoc

Jobs was very serious about this


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NeXT STEP software was being turned

intoMac OS X

Under Jobs guidance the company

increased sales

Introduced the iMac and other newproducts


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Jobs held the title of ICEO

Very influential impact on the Applecompany

By the year 2000, he created even greater

advances in new technology


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In early 2000, Pixar leads animated film

industry

Later that month,

Jobs announced his

return to the CEO

position

Insisted on keeping his $1 annual salary


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Although his salary was low, the company

granted him ten million shares of Apple

stock worth hundreds of millions


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First project as CEO was the G4 Cube

Was too expensive

and didnt satisfy acertain market

Lasted only twelvemonths in Apples line-up


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The next step for Steve was his newest

operating system,Mac OS X

The future of Apple


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Apple wanted software to sync up digital

devices

Was turned down by most companies

Jobs took matters into his own hands and

created iLife suite.


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In 2001, Jobs opened Apple retail stores

so customers could:1. Try out computers

2. Test software

3. Meet with salespeople

x This was a large risk but he knew that people

would want to buy them


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Less than a year after iTunes was released,Apple released the iPod

Originally only forMac users

In July 2002, the new iPod wasavailable for Windows users as

well

Sales skyrocketed and 75% ofMP3 players areiPods


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In eight weeks, five million songs were

sold on iTunes

Took over 80% of the legal music

downloading market


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June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced

switch from PowerPC chips to Intel

chips.

This would conserve

energy on PowerBookand iBook


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October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was

introduced

Could play musicvideos and TV shows

Jobs announced the

opening of the iTunesvideo store


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Pixar was Jobs second company

Swept the box office withits animated films

On January 24th, 2006, Disney

bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion


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Despite a recent scare with pancreaticcancer, Jobs is back in health and doing

just fine

Jobs is an influential man who learnedfromhis failures and gainedmaturity from them

True role model

Young Steven Jobs

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