Steve Jobs1955-2011

by Kate Henry

Early life

• Given up for adoption at birth• Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs• Dropped out of college and went to India.• Worked for Atari making electronics for

video games.

Apple

• Founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976.

Apple I1976

200 soldOne sold for $390,000 in

2013

Apple II1977

6 million soldMade Jobs rich

Macintosh1984

Over 200 million soldMade Jobs mega-rich

• Left Apple in 1985 after disagreement with other managers.

NeXT

• Set up another computer company called NeXT.

The world’s first website was developed on a NeXT.

• Sold NeXT to Apple in 1996 for $427 million.

Pixar

• Bought Pixar for $10 million in 1986.• Produced lots of successful movies.

• Sold Pixar in 2006 for $7.4 billion.

Back to Apple

• Jobs came back to Apple in 1997. The company was losing a lot of money but he changed all that with:

iMac iPod iPhone iPad

• Now Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world.

Final years

• He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003.

• He had a liver transplant in 2009.• He left Apple because of illness in August

2011 and died on October 5 2011, aged 56.