Steve jobs as role model

1. How Steve Jobs
Changed My Life
Zayd Sanders

2. Biography
• Born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, Died
October 5,2011.
• Best known as an inventor, entrepreneur, and
CEO of Apple Inc.
• He attended Reed College for a semester and
then dropped out.

3. Biography
• He returned to California and he was hired by
Atari.
• Jobs took interest in his friend Woz’s new
activities.
• They gained popularity after the Altair 8800
personal computer kit came out in 1975.
• Steve convinced his friend Wozniak to start a
company, and Apple Computer was born on April
1, 1976.

4. Biography
• Apple went public and in December 1980, and
Jobs’ net worth increased to over $200 million at
the age of 25
• They attracted the attention of IBM (the only other
company selling mainframe computers to large
companies)

5. Macintosh
• Steve Jobs wanted to create a personal computer
that was supposed to be cheap and easy to use.
• 1981 he became the head of the Macintosh
project.
• It took 3 years to develop, and he formed a small
group of dedicated, young engineers.

6. Biography
• Steve had high standards for his new NeXT
machine. He wanted the best hardware, and the
most advanced software possible. The system
NeXTSTEP was based on UNIX.
• This came out October 1988, but it didn’t sel
because it was late, and it was overpriced.
• Jobs had failed and he started focusing on his
family

7. Pixar
• In early 1986, Jobs bought a small group of
computer scientists, and incorporated it as Pixar.
• In the late 1970s the founders of Pixar had a
vision of making films using computer animation
only. They knew that no computer was powerful
enough at the time.
• They had to wait a couple of decades before their
dream could come true.

8. Pixar
• Pixar was a small company.
• In November 1995 Toy Story was released, and it
was a huge success.
• His net worth grew to over $1.5 billion. That’s 5
times more money than apple has made in the
1980s.

9. Apple
• 2001 Jobs and his team started talking about OS
X.
• In mid 2001 Apple stores opened.
• March 2001, Steve Jobs started a development
program to develop Apple-branded MP3 player
before that years holiday season.
• The iPod was born October 23, 2001.

10. iPod
• The iPod was the first digital music player that
people loved, and was a commercial success from
the day it came out.
• The iTunes Store was introduced in April 2003,
before that people would pirate music, and burn
their CDs
• iTunes was on Mac only, but it was introduced to
windows six months later

11. How does this change my
life?
When I was growing up in the 90s, I played tons of
video games, watched cartoons, movies, listened to
music. I did all of this without knowing about Steve
Jobs. Of course I knew that someone had created
these things, someone helped to make them better. I
didn’t know that he helps with Pixar. One of my
favorite childhood movies is Toy Story. I played Atari
games. I still see games today that are made by
Atari.

12. How does this change my
life?
• I used to use CD players. I remember going to the
music store and buying blank CDs. In the early
2000s I didn’t have the money for an iPod
because I was only 8 or 9. so I used to ask my
sisters and my mom to buy me Linkin Park, Papa
Roach, and Hoobastank CDs. Now I can go on to
iTunes and download any song I want.