2. Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-
founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also
co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios;
he became a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney
Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.
3. Family
Steve Jobs was born in San
Francisco, California to Joanne
Simpson and a Syrian father. Paul
and Clara Jobs of Mountain View,
California then adopted him. In
1972, Jobs graduated from
Homestead High School in
Cupertino, California and enrolled
in Reed College in Portland,
Oregon. One semester later, he
had dropped out, later taking up
the study of philosophy and
foreign cultures.
4. Early career
Steve Jobs had a deep-seated interest
in technology, so he took up a job
at Atari Inc, then a leading
manufacturer of video games. He
struck a friendship with fellow
designer Steve Wozniak and
attended meetings of the
“Homebrew Computer Club” with
him.
5. In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak
founded Apple Computer in the
Jobs family garage. The first
personal computer was sold for
$666.66. By 1980, Apple had
already released three
improved versions of the
personal computer. It had a
wildly successful IPO, which
made both founders millionaires
n After saving up some many times over.
money, Jobs took off for
India in the search of
enlightenment. Once he
returned, he convinced
Wozniak to quit his job at
Hewlett Packard to join him
in his venture that
concerned personal
computers. They sold items
like scientific calculators to
raise the seed capital.
7. A tiff with the Apple’s Board of Directors and John Scully led to Jobs’
resignation. Steve Jobs decided that he wanted to change the hardware
industry. The company was called NeXTStep, which produced the NeXT
Computer. The machine was a commercial washout but helped with future work
in object-oriented programming, PostScript, and magneto-optical devices. Jobs
returned to his original company after Apple acquired NeXT in 1996.
8. Steve Jobs also started Pixar, which has produced
multiple blockbuster films.
