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Young Steven Jobs 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 attend college
Education
Skipped 5th grade
Took his first electronics class in high school
After school, attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard company where he met Steve Wonzniak during work
Education
Graduated high school in 1972
Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon
Dropped out after one semester
Slept on his friends dorm room floor and dropped in on classes of interest
The Beginning of A Career Returned to California in 1974 and was
hired as a technician for Atari
Attended meetings at Wozniak’s “Homebrew Computer Club”
Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in building computers
Apple
Born on April 1st, 1976
Apple I designed and prototype built
First single board computer with built-in video interface
Apple
Apple II designed in the following year
Operating System loaded automatically
Smaller Components & built-in circuitry
In 1976, Jobs looked to hire a public relations agency to help advertise
Smooth Sailing
Most investors turned Apple down
Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula decided to invest
Markkula became chairman of Apple in May 1977
Smooth Sailing Became publicly traded company in 1980
Launched LISA in 1983
First commercial computer to use GUI
Unpopular due to its few software programs and high price
Smooth Sailing Macintosh created to compete with PC
Marketed for friendliness, not just a mindless machine
Very popular – sold approximately 70,000 Macs in the first 100 days
The Downfall
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
Still Looking Up
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
Still Looking Up
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
Still Looking Up
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
Still Looking Up
Jobs had to make drastic decisions
Microsoft purchased NeXT software
Microsoft came up with $150 million to stake in Apple
Saved a dying company.
The New Beginning
First project as CEO was the G4 Cube
Was too expensive and didn’t satisfy a certain market
Lasted only twelve months in Apple’s line-up
The New Beginning The next step for Steve was his newest
operating system, Mac OS X
The future of Apple
The New Beginning 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.
The New Beginning
In 2001, Jobs opened Apple retail stores so customers could:
1. Try out computers2. Test software3. Meet with salespeople
This was a large risk but he knew that people would want to buy them
Portable Audio Revolution
Less than a year after iTunes was released, Apple released the iPod
Originally only for Mac users
In July 2002, the new iPod was available for Windows users as well
Sales skyrocketed and 75% of MP3 players are iPods
Portable Audio Revolution
In eight weeks, five million songs were sold on iTunes
Took over 80% of the legal music downloading market
More Successful Changes
June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch from PowerPC chips to Intel chips.
This would conserve energy on PowerBook and iBook
More Successful Changes October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was
introduced
Could play music videos and TV shows
Jobs announced the opening of the iTunes video store
Pixar
Pixar was Jobs’ second company
Swept the box office with its animated films
On January 24th, 2006, Disney bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion
Conclusion
Despite a recent scare with pancreatic cancer, Jobs is back in health and doing just fine
Jobs is an influential man who learned from his failures and gained maturity from them
True role model