3. Biography of Steve Jobs
Nationality: American
Date of birth: 24/02/1955
Birthplace: San Francisco (California)
Country of residence: USA
Top Companies: Apple Inc.
Size: 1,88 m
4. Biography of Steve Jobs
_ Inventor, entrepreneur, visionary
and a pioneer.
_Co-founder, CEO and chairman
of the board of Apple Inc.
_ Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Jobs was an American inventor
and entrepreneur, widely recognized as a visionary and a
pioneer of the personal computer revolution.
_ Co-founder, CEO and chairman of the board of Apple Inc,
he also directed the Pixar studios and became a member of
the board of Disney in 2006 during the takeover of Pixar by
Disney.
_ Apple was established on 1 April 1976 in Cupertino,
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Born on April 1st, 1 976
Apple I designed and prototype built
First single board computer with built-in video
interface
10. 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
11. Most investors turned Apple down
Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula decided
to invest
Markkula became chairman
of Apple in May 1977
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. Jobs had to make drastic decisions
Microsoft purchased NeXT software
Microsoft came up with $150 million to stake in
Apple
Saved a dying company.
18. Jobs began looking into alternatives to Object
Linking and Embedding
Created OpenDoc
Jobs was very serious about this
19. NeXT STEP software was being turned into
Mac OS X
Under Jobs’ guidance the company increased
sales
Introduced the iMac and other new products
20. In early 2000, Pixar leads animated film
industry
Later that month,
Jobs announced his
return to the CEO
position
Insisted on keeping his $1 annual salary
21. 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
22. The next step for Steve was his newest
operating system, Mac OS X
The future of Apple
23. In 2001, Jobs opened Apple retail stores so
customers could:
1. Try out computers
2. Test software
3. Meet with salespeople
This was a large risk but he knew that people would
want to buy them
24. His Inventions
_ Up until his death Steve Jobs oversaw Apple's creation and
development with the invention of the iMac (1998), the iPod, iTunes
and the launch of the company's chain stores : Apple Store (2001),
the iTunes Store (2003), iPhone (2007) and the iPad (2010). The
company came up with different products which made his company
one of the richest in the world.
_ These inventions have revolutionized the world of music and the
touch device.
25. 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
26. June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch
from PowerPC chips to Intel chips.
This would conserve
energy on PowerBook
and iBook
27. October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was
introduced
Could play music
videos and TV shows
Jobs announced the
opening of the iTunes
video store
28. 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
32. _ In October 2003, doctors learn that Steve Jobs was
suffering from a cancer. He did not reveal his illness to
his employees and the public until August 2004 after
undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from
his pancreas.
_ Two year slater, he appeared very thin, prompting
rumors of a return of the disease. In January 2009 he
was forced to take sick leave, announcing he was
suffering from a hormonal imbalance.
_ Then on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Steve Jobs'
death was announced in San Francisco 23:00.