Steve Jobs

1. Căţiu George Daniel
UNIVERSITY OF AGRONOMICAL
SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE –
BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT,
ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT IN
PUBLIC ALIMENTATION AND
AGRITOURISM

2. Steven Paul Jobs (b. February 24, 1955 - d. October 5, 2011)
was cofounder and CEO (general director) of the company
Apple Computer and CEO of Pixar until the acquisition of the
animation studio by Disney.
Jobs is regarded as one of the most influential figures from
both the computer industry and the entertainment industry

3. Alongside co-founder of Apple, SteveWozniak,
Jobs helped popularize the personal computer in the
late 70s.
In 1985, after he lost the fight for power with the
board of directors of Apple, Jobs founded NeXT, a
company that develops a computer platform
specializing in higher education and business
markets.The acquisition of NeXT company in 1997
by Apple brough Jobs back to the company he had
founded.

4.  First years
 Career:
 The biginning of Apple Computers
 NEXT Computers
 Pixar and Disney
 The return to Apple
 The resignation
 The death

5. In 1972, Jobs graduated
from high school and enrolled
in Reed College in Portland,
Oregon. Although he dropped
out after only one semester
college, he continued to hear
some courses such as
calligraphy.
In 1974, Jobs returned to California where he began to attend
meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with SteveWozniak.
Wanting to raise money for a spiritual retreat to India, he undertook
as a technician at Atari, a firm producing video games.

6. After traveling to India he returned to his old job at
Atari, where he received the task of creating a circuit for
video game Breakout.
Jobs was not interested circuits and have little
knowledge about their design so he made a deal with
Wozniak to split the bonus with him if he reduce the
number of chips.To the amazement of Atari,Wozniak
managed to reduce the number of chips by 50, a design
so tight it was impossible to reproduce on an assembly
line.

7. The biginning of Apple Computers
NeXT Computers
PIXAR and Disney
The return to Apple
The resignation

8. In 1976, Steve Jobs, SteveWozniak and Ronald
Wayne later, with funding from a semi-retired Intel's
company, foundedApple.As Apple continued to expand,
the company began looking for an experienced manager
to effectively manage development.

9. At the annual meeting of shareholders of January
24, 1984, Jobs introduced the Macintosh to the
enthusiastic audience. Macintosh became the first small
computer with graphical user interface, which has been
marketed successfully. Development was started by Jef
Raskin and taken over later by Jobs.
A crisis occurred sales industry in late 1984 damaged
the professional relationship between Jobs and Sculley,
and at the end of May 1985 Sculley ousted Jobs from his
position as head of the Macintosh division.

10. Almost immediately, Jobs founded another computer
company, NeXT Computer called. Like the Apple Lisa,
the NeXT workstation was technologically advanced.
However, it was largely dismissed by industry because it
was too expensive.Among those who could afford,
however, the NeXT workstation won their strengths due
to technical followers, becoming a leader among them.
Jobs sold NeXT products in scientific and academic fields
because of the innovative and experimental technologies
incorporated.

11. In 1986, Jobs purchased the Graphics Group (later called
Pixar) from Lucasfilm, computer graphics division for the
price of $ 10 million.The new company was originally
intended to be a high-end graphics hardware developer.
After years of Pixar Image Computer profitability,
concluded a contract with Disney to produce computer
animated films, which Disney would co-finance and
distribute.The first film produced by the partnership,Toy
Story, brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio to
launch in 1995. Over the next decade, led by the creative
director of Pixar, John Lasseter, the company produced hits
box office: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) and Up (2009).

12. On January 24, 2006 Jobs and Iger announced that
Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock
transaction worth $ 7.4 billion. Once the transaction
closed, Jobs became the largest shareholder of Disney,
with about 7% of the company. Jobs joined the Disney
board of directors after completion of the merger.

13. In 1996, Apple
announced that it would
buy NeXT company for $
429 millions.The deal was
finalized in late 1996,
bringing Jobs back on the
company he co-founded.
Soon he became acting
CEO of Apple.

14. In March 1998, to concentrateApple's efforts on
returning to profitability, Jobs immediately terminated a
number of projects, such as Newton, Cyberdog, and
OpenDoc.
With the acquisition of NeXT, much of the
company's technology found its usefulness in Apple
products, especially NextStep, which evolved into Mac
OS X. Under Jobs's guidance the company increased the
number of sales significantly with the introduction of the
iMac computer and other new products; since then,
appealing designs and powerful branding have worked
well for Apple.

15. Wednesday, August 24, 2011, Apple announced the
resignation of co-founder Steve Jobs. Apple Inc. reported that
Steve Jobs's resignation is effective immediately and it will be
replaced byTim Cook, who hold the position of chief
operating officer of the company.
In a letter to leadership and Apple comunity, Jobs sent it
wants to remain Chairman. Although it was officially on sick
leave since January, Jobs appeared in public to announce new
productsApple.

16. Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011 after a long
battle with pancreatic cancer. His death occurred just one
day after the launch of the new iPhone model. He was
considered a legend of the IT.

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