STEVE JOBSENTREPRENEUR

INTRODUCTION

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs ( February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and largest shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of Next Inc.

Adopted at birth in San Francisco, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s, Jobs's counter cultural lifestyle was a product of his time.

Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The duo gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers.

CHILDHOOD

Steven Jobs spent his childhood in Silicon Valley.He was the type of child who liked to stick to himself. He only did

competitive swimming, and no team sports. He was interested in electronics and gadgets, because he would spend a lot of time in his neighbour's garage, who worked at Hewlett-Packard Company.

 He joined the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club, where he saw his first computer at the age of 12.  He was impressed with the computer and knew he wanted to work with computers.

The class that interested him was a calligraphy class, because after he dropped out, he continued taking calligraphy classes at Reed College. 

 When Steve joined the Homebrew Computer Club group, he was surprised by the small computer Steve Wozniak was trying to build. Steve was excited about  all the components of a computer. 

(1972-1985)PRE-APPLE o In 1973, Steve Wozniak designed

his own version of the classic video game Pong.

o In mid-1972, Jobs moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area and was renting his own apartment.

o Jobs traveled to India in mid-1974

to visit Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi ashram with his Reed friend.

o  in a 1994 interview, recalled that it took six months for him and Wozniak to figure out how to build the blue boxes. Jobs said that if not for the blue boxes, there would have been no Apple.

APPLEo Jobs began attending meetings of the 

Homebrew Computer Club with Wozniak in 1975.

o  In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer.

o By the early 1977, she and Jobs would spend time together at her home at Duveneck Ranch in Los Altos, which served as a hostel and environmental education center.

o In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple II at the West Coast Computer Faire. 

o In 1977, with the success of Apple now a part of their relationship, Brennan,Daniel Kottke, and Jobs moved into a house near to the Apple office in Cupertino.

o In 1978, Apple recruited Mike Scott from National Semiconductor to serve as CEO for what turned out to be several turbulent years.

(1985-1997)

NeXT COMPUTERS

o Jobs founded NeXT Inc. in 1985 after his resignation from Apple with $7 million.

o NeXT workstations were first released in 1990, priced at US$9,999.  The NeXT workstation was known for its technical strengths, chief among them its object-oriented software development system.

o The revised, second generation NeXT cube was released in 1990, also. Jobs touted it as the first "interpersonal" computer that would replace the personal computer.

o  In 1996, NeXT Software, Inc. released Web Objects, a framework for Web application development.

o  After NeXT was acquired by Apple Inc. in 1997, WebObjects was used to build and run the Apple Store, Mobile Me services, and the iTunes Store.

PIXAR AND DISNEYIn 1986, Jobs funded the spinout of The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar)

from Lucas film's computer graphics division.Over the next 15 years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the

company produced box-office hits:oA Bug's Life (1998) o Toy Story 2 (1999)oMonsters, Inc. (2001)o Finding Nemo (2003)o The Incredibles (2004) oCars (2006)oRatatouille (2007)oWALL-E (2008)oUp (2009)o Toy Story 3 (2010)

In October 2005, Bob Iger replaced Eisner at Disney, and Iger quickly worked to mend relations with Jobs and Pixar. The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately seven percent of the company's stock

RETURN TO APPLE(1997-2011)• In 1996, Apple announced that it would

buy NeXT for $427 million.• The deal was finalized in February 1997.•  In March 1998, to concentrate Apple's efforts on

returning to profitability, Jobs terminated a number of projects, such as Newton, Cyberdog, and OpenDoc.

• In 2001, Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an exercise price of $18.30. 

• Jobs was perceived as a demanding perfectionist.• In a 2011 interview with biographer Walter

Isaacson, Jobs revealed that he had met with U.S. President Barack Obama, complained about the nation's shortage of software engineers

INNOVATIONS

Apple IIApple LisaThe Macintosh computerThe NeXT computeriMaciTunesiPodiPhoneiPad

RESIGNATIONOn August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation as Apple's CEO, writing to the board:- "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.“Jobs became chairman of the board and named Tim Cook as his successor as CEO.

DEATHJobs died at his Palo Alto, California, home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, because of complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, resulting in respiratory arrest. He had lost consciousness the day before and died with his wife, children, and sisters at his side.