Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur and inventor who co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. As CEO, he led the development of revolutionary products like the Apple II, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad which had significant impacts on the technology and consumer electronics industries. After being forced out of Apple, Jobs went on to found NeXT and later returned to Apple as CEO in 1996 to turn the struggling company around, helping it become the most valuable company in the world. Jobs passed away in 2011 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

1. 1955 - 2011
Co-founder , Chairman and CEO
of Apple Inc.
Made by Shivashish Ghosh

2. Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American
-- entrepreneur,
-- marketer ,
-- and inventor ,
who was the
-- co-founder (along with Steve Wozniak and
Ronald Wayne),
-- chairman,
-- and CEO of AppleInc.

3.  Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a
charismatic pioneer of the personal computer
revolution .
 He is also known for his

4. Job’s birth parents :
 Abdulfattah “John” Jandali (Syrian born
Biological father )
Joanne Carole Schieble (Swiss-American
Biological mother )
Met at the University of Wisconsin.
Jandali , said he had no choice but to put
the baby up for adoption because his
girlfriend’s family had objected to their
relationship .

5. Jobs was born in San Francisco , California.
He was adopted by Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara Jobs ,
Armenian American .
Paul showed Steve how to work on electronics in
the family garage

6. Jobs then attended Cupertino Junior
High and Homestead High School in
Cupertino, California.
At Homestead, Jobs became friends with Bill
Fernandez, a neighbour who shared the same
interests in electronics.
Fernandez introduced Jobs to his neighbour, Steve
Wozniak, a computer and electronics whiz kid, who
was also known as "Woz".

7. in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland,
Oregon.
Reed was an
expensive college
which Paul and
Clara could ill
afford.
Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the
next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a
course on calligraphy

8. In late 1973, Jobs took a job as a technician at Atari, Inc.
in Los Gatos, California.
In 1974 , Jobs stayed in India for 7
months to gain spiritual
enlightenment .
And after returning to US he became
a serious pratitioner of Zen Buddhism
Jobs then returned to Atari, and was
assigned to create a circuit board for the
arcade video game Breakout.

9. Steve Jobs and his old friend Wozniak used to work together for
Atari Inc.
Steve Wozniak
According to Wozniak, Jobs told him that Atari gave them only
$700 (instead of the offered $5,000), and that Wozniak's share
was thus $350.
Wozniak had designed a low-cost digital "blue box" to
generate the necessary tones to manipulate the telephone
network, allowing free long-distance calls.
Jobs decided that they could make money selling
it.
Jobs said that if not for the blue boxes, there would have been no
Apple.

10. In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak formed their own business,
which they named "Apple Computer Company" in
remembrance of a happy summer Jobs had spent picking
apples.
In 1976, Wozniaksingle-handedly invented the Apple I computer.

11. After Wozniak showed it to Jobs, who suggested that they sell it,
they and Ronald Wayne formed Apple Computer in the garage of
Jobs's parents in order to sell it
Ronald Wayne
They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-
marketing manager and engineer Mike Markkula

12. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the
commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven
graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the
Apple Lisa.
Apple Lisa
One year later, Apple employee Jef Raskin invented the Macintosh
Macintosh

13. While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic director for Apple,
some of his employees from that time described him as an erratic
and temperamental manager.
Jobs kept meetings running past midnight, sent out lengthy
faxes, then called new meetings at 7:00 am.
In 1983, Jobs lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola to serve
as Apple's CEO

14. Sculley learned that Jobs—who believed Sculley to be "bad for
Apple" and the wrong person to lead the company—had been
attempting to organize a boardroom coup, and on May 24, 1985,
called a board meeting to resolve the matter
Result of the meeting : Jobs was removed from all his
managerial duties as head of the Macintosh department . As a
result Jobs resigned from Apple
In a speech Jobs gave at Stanford University in 2005, he said
being fired from Apple was the best thing that could have
happened to him; "The heaviness of being successful was
replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again “ .

15. Jobs founded NeXT Inc. in 1985 after his resignation with $7 million.
The NeXT workstation was known for its technical strengths,
chief among them its object-oriented software development
system.
Jobs marketed NeXT products to the financial, scientific, and
academic community, highlighting its innovative, experimental
new technologies, such as the Mach kernel, the digital signal
processor chip, and the built-in Ethernet port.
Digital signal processor chip
In 1996, NeXT Software, Inc. released WebObjects, a framework for Web application
development.
After NeXT was acquired by Apple Inc. in 1997, WebObjects was used to build
and run the Apple Store , MobileMe services, and the iTunes Store.

16. In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar)
from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of
$10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as
capital
The first film produced by the partnership, ToyStory(1995), with
Jobs credited as executive producer , brought fame and critical
acclaim to the studio when it was released

17. Over the next 15 years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter,
the company produced box-office hits A Bug's Life (1998); Toy
Story 2 (1999); Monsters, Inc. (2001); Finding Nemo (2003); The
Incredibles (2004); Cars (2006); Ratatouille (2007); WALL-E (2008);
Up (2009); and Toy Story 3 (2010).
In the years 2003 and 2004, as Pixar's contract with Disney was
running out, Jobs and Disney chief executive Michael Eisner tried
but failed to negotiate a new partnership , and in early 2004, Jobs
announced that Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its
films after its contract with Disney expired.

18. In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for
$427 million.
 The deal was finalized in late 1996, bringing Jobs back to the
company he co-founded.
 Jobs became de facto chief after then-CEO Gil Amelio was
ousted in July 1997.
 He was formally named interim chief executive in September.
In March 1998, to concentrate Apple's efforts on returning to
profitability, Jobs terminated a number of projects, such as
Newton, Cyberdog, and OpenDoc.

19. At the 2000 Macworld Expo, Jobs officially dropped the "interim"
modifier from his title at Apple and became permanent CEO.
Jobs quipped at the time that he would be using the title "iCEO".
The company subsequently branched out, introducing and
improving upon other digital appliances
With the introduction of the iPod portable music player, iTunes
digital music software, and the iTunes Store, the company made
forays into consumer electronics and music distribution.
iPods

20. On June 29, 2007, Apple entered the cellular phone business with
the introduction of the iPhone,
 a multi-touch display cell phone,
 which also included the features of an iPod and,
 with its own mobile browser,
 revolutionized the mobile browsing scene.
iPhones 5S and 5C

21. InAugust2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained with
the company as chairman of the company's board.
Hours after the announcement, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares
dropped five percent in after-hours trading.
It was believed, according to Forbes, that the impact
would be felt in a negative way beyond Apple,
including at The Walt Disney Company where Jobs
served as director
In after-hours trading on the day of the announcement, Walt
Disney Co. (DIS) shares dropped 1.5 percent

22. Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California, home around3 pmon October5, 2011,
due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-
cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, resulting in respiratory
arrest
Both Apple and Microsoft
flew their flags at half-
staff throughout their
respective headquarters
and campuses

23. His death was announced by Apple in a statement
which read:
We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs
passed away today.
Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source
of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of
our lives.
The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.
His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his
family.
Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched
by his extraordinary gifts