4. Education
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
5. 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
Education
6. The Beginning of A Career
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
7. Apple
Born on April 1st, 1976
Apple I designed and prototype
built
First single board computer with
built-in video interface
8. Apple
Apple II designed in the same year
Operating System loaded automatically
Smaller Components & built-in
circuitry
In 1976, Jobs looked to hire a
public relations agency to help
advertise
9. Smooth Sailing
Most investors turned Apple down
Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula
decided to invest
Markkula became chairman
of Apple in May 1977
10. Smooth Sailing
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
11. Smooth Sailing
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
12. Portable Audio Revolution
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
13. 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
14. The only way
to do great
work
is
to
love what
you do
If I try my
best and fail,
well,
I have tried
my best
15. Your time is limited
so don’t waste it living
someone else’s life.
Stay hungry. Stay
foolish.