This presentation is basically all about a small biography of the well known Co-Founder of American Multinational Company Apple Inc. written up on the basis of book named ...iCon Steve Jobs.
2. ABOUT THE BOOK
The book shows how Steve Jobs nearly squandered his career
and fortune .
The book also shows how Jobs learned from his mistakes and
became a success by learning from his failures and
recognising his own limitations .
3. EARLY
LIFE
BORN ON 24TH
FEBRUARY IN SAN
FRANCISCO , STEVE WAS
AN ADOPTED CHILD
HE DID HIS SCHOOLING
FROM LOS ALTO CITY
AND LATER DROPPED
OUT FROM HIS COLLEGE
STUDIED EASTERN
MYSTICISM
AT 19 , GOT HIS FIRST JOB
AT VIDEO GAME
MANUFACTURER ATARI
HAD INTEREST IN
ELECTRONICS
4. After school , Steve attended lectures at the Hewlett Packard
company where he met Steve Wozniak (Woz) .
Steve convinced Woz to work with him in building computers .
Steve sold his Volkswagen van while Woz sold his Hewlett
Packard scientific calculator .
He named the company Apple .
5. APPLE COMPUTER
Apple I – First single board computer .
Apple got its first order from The Byte Shop , a
local retailer .
6. Apple II designed in the following year where the operating system loaded automatically .
At 24 , he was already a millionaire .
7. BLUNDERS
He supervised Apple III (Lisa) , a business computer .
The Lisa project got out of control .
Jobs was forced off the project by the board .
Steve hired John Sculley (Pepsi exec) as Apple’s CEO .
The first Macintosh made its debut in 1984 .
8. DOWNFALL
Macintosh flopped .
Woz leaves .
Jobs left the company after losing a bitter battle over control with John
Scully .
13. Takeaways
Dealing with people .
Be passionate about your work .
When life gives you lemons , make lemonade .
Life has its ups and downs , but always find the inner strength to pull
yourself up .
You don’t have to be flawless .