2. Steven Paul Jobs
• Born in 1955 in Green
Bay, Wisconsin
• Adopted by Paul and
Clara Jobs to live in
Santa Clara, California
• Graduated high school
in Cupertino,
California
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3. Education
• Jobs went to Reed
College in Portland
Oregon
• He studied Poetry,
Literature, and Physics
• After one semester,
Jobs dropped out of
school, but still
attended some classes
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4. Steves
• Jobs met Steve Wozniak shortly after they
both left school while working for HewlettPackard
• “Woz” was an incredibly talented engineer,
especially in electronic gadgets
• While developing a “blue box” device, Jobs
convinced Woz to sell it to Berkeley
students.
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5. The Beginnings of Apple
• Worked at ATARI and
went to India .After
spending time in India in
1974, Jobs returned to
America
• He visited with Woz the
homebrew computer club,
but was not content with
just the creation of
electronics.
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6. • Jobs convinced Woz to help him create a
personal computer, the Apple I
• Jobs, with marketing help from a friend, had
the vision of creating a computer company
that would make and sell pc’s.
• After showing the Apple I to in town
computer stores, Jobs was able to sell 25.
• After selling his Volkswagon mini-bus, and
asking Woz to sell his scientific calculator,
the two raised enough money to create
Apple Computers.
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9. Apple
• Convinced former Intel executive turned business angel Mike Markkula
to invest $250,000 in Apple, in January 1977. Markkula was a big believer
in the personal computing revolution, predicted Apple would be one of the
Fortune 500 in less than two years.
• Jobs and Woz sold the Apple I in 1976 for $666, making over $776,000
from sales
• In 1977, the two released the Apple II, a single board computer with
onboard ROM and a color video interface. Beautiful package, ease of use,
and nifty features, the Apple II crushed most of its competition and its sales
made the Apple founders millionaires
• The IPO took place in December 1980, only four years after the company
was started. Steve Jobs's net worth increased to over $200 million, at age
25.
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10. Positive Growth
• From 1977 to 1983, Apple continued to
grow exponentially.
• In 1981, IBM finally entered the personal
computer market, and in just two years
began to outsell Apple.
• After the failure of the Apple III and Lisa,
Jobs needed a new computer that could
compete with the IBM PC.
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11. The Macintosh
• In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, the
first personal computer with a graphical
user interface.
• It had 128K of memory, and was
expandable.
• Along with the mouse, the Macintosh was
the most revolutionary computer made up to
that point.
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13. Microsoft and John Sculley
• In 1985, Bill Gates convinced Jobs to
license the graphical user interface in the
Macintosh to create Windows, which could
run on IBM PC’s.
• As sales of the Macintosh took off, CEO
John Sculley thought that Jobs was hurting
Apple’s success, and gradually forced Jobs
to leave.
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14. NeXT
• Jobs project in the late 1980’s to mid 90’s was
NextStep
• A new computer company based on an object
oriented software platform, NeXT failed first as a
hardware company, then as a software company
• Apple similarly did very poorly in the early and
mid 90’s, brought on by poor leadership and
stagnating computer design
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15. The Second Coming of Jobs
• In 1996, Apple bought
NeXT, and with it came
Steve Jobs.
• In 2000, Jobs became
the full CEO of Apple,
after the success of the
iMac, the first computer
mainly marketed for its
looks.
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16. 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
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17. Return to Profitability and Innovation
• Jobs continued to innovate the
computer industry, spearheading
projects like the iPod, iTunes and its
Music Store, and high end computer
• Under Jobs’ watch, Apple has entered a
new phase of growth and profitability,
fueled by his imagination and quest for
perfection
• Jobs is an influential man who learned
from his failures and gained
maturity from them
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18. Conclusion
• Jobs is an influential man who learned from
his failures and gained
maturity from them
• True role model
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