STEVE JOBS

BY SWAPNA MACHARLA

EARLY YEARS

• BORN on 24th February 1955.• Adopted by Paul jobs and Clara jobs.• He droped out of “reed college” after 1st

semister.• He slept on floor on friends room , returning

coke bottles for food money, going to “Hare krishna temple” for weekly free meals.

WHEN STEVE JOBS WAS YOUNG

CAREER IN APPLE

• He founded Apple in 1976.• Apple continued to expanded.• He got fired from his own company.• Jobs later claimed that being fired from Apple

was the best thing that could have happened to him; "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.

LOGOS

The Apple Macintosh Plus at the Design Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Macintosh

TIME LINE OF APPLE PRODUCTS

IN NEXT COMPUTER

• He founded NEXT COMPUTER in 1985 with $7 million.

• NeXT was acquired by Apple Inc. in 1997

STEVE’S WIFE LAURENE POWELL

PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS

• Started in 1986.• Contracted with Disney to produce computer

–animated feature films

RESIGNATION

• In August 2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained at the company as chairman of the company's board.

• Hours after the announcement, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares dropped five percent in after-hour trading

MANAGEMENT STYLE

• Jobs was a demanding perfectionist who always aspired to position his businesses and their products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting trends, at least in innovation and style.

DEATH

• Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due pancreatic cancer,

resulting in respiratory arrest.

QUOTES OF STEVE JOBS