Steve Jobs was born in 1955 and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He dropped out of college but still attended classes. Jobs met Steve Wozniak and they developed the Apple I computer in 1976, founding Apple Computers. Jobs led Apple to success with products like the Macintosh in 1984 and iPod, but left the company in 1985. He later returned as CEO in 1996 and led another period of innovation and profitability at Apple until his death in 2011.

1. Steve Jobs
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2. Steven Paul Jobs
• Born in 1955 in
Green Bay,
Wisconsin
• Adopted by Paul
and Clara Jobs to
live in Santa Clara,
California
• Graduated high
school in Cupertino,
California

3. Education
• Jobs went to Reed
College in Portland
Oregon
• He studied Poetry,
Literature, and
Physics
• After one semester,
Jobs dropped out of
school, but still
attended some
classes

4. Steves
• Jobs met Steve Wozniak shortly after
they both left school while working for
Hewlett-Packard
• “Woz” was an incredibly talented
engineer, especially in electronic
gadgets
• While developing a “blue box” device,
Jobs convinced Woz to sell it to
Berkeley students.

6. The Beginnings of Apple
• After spending time
in India in 1974,
Jobs returned to
America
• He visited with Woz
the homebrew
computer club, but
was not content with
just the creation of
electronics.

7. • Jobs convinced Woz to help him create
a personal computer, the Apple I
• Jobs, with marketing help from a friend,
had the vision of creating a computer
company that would make and sell pc’s.
• After showing the Apple I to in town
computer stores, Jobs was able to sell
25.
• After selling his Volkswagon mini-bus,
and asking Woz to sell his scientific
calculator, the two raised enough
money to create Apple Computers.

10. Apple
• Jobs and Woz sold
the Apple I in 1976
for $666, making
over $776,000 from
sales
• In 1977, the two
released the Apple
II, a single board
computer with
onboard ROM and a
color video
interface.

11. Positive Growth
• From 1977 to 1983, Apple continued to
grow exponentially.
• In 1981, IBM finally entered the
personal computer market, and in just
two years began to outsell Apple.
• After the failure of the Apple III and Lisa,
Jobs needed a new computer that could
compete with the IBM PC.

12. The Macintosh
• In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh,
the first personal computer with a
graphical user interface.
• It had 128K of memory, and was
expandable.
• Along with the mouse, the Macintosh
was the most revolutionary computer
made up to that point.

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15. Microsoft and John Sculley
• In 1985, Bill Gates convinced Jobs to
license the graphical user interface in
the Macintosh to create Windows, which
could run on IBM PC’s.
• As sales of the Macintosh took off, CEO
John Sculley thought that Jobs was
hurting Apple’s success, and gradually
forced Jobs to leave.

16. NeXT
• Jobs project in the late 1980’s to mid 90’s
was NextStep
• A new computer company based on an object
oriented software platform, NeXT failed first
as a hardware company, then as a software
company
• Apple similarly did very poorly in the early
and mid 90’s, brought on by poor leadership
and stagnating computer design

17. The Second Coming of Jobs
• In 1996, Apple
bought NeXT, and
with it came Steve
Jobs.
• In 2000, Jobs
became the full
CEO of Apple, after
the success of the
iMac, the first
computer mainly
marketed for its

18. Return to Profitability and
Innovation
• Jobs continues to
innovate the computer
industry, spearheading
projects like the iPod,
iTunes and its Music
Store, and high end
computer
• Under Jobs’ watch,
Apple has entered a
new phase of growth
and profitability, fueled
by his imagination and
quest for perfection

19. Sources
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
• http://www.esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/movies.
html
• http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Jobs.html
• Apple.com
• http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/ads.htm
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• Butcher, Lee. “Accidental millionaire : the rise
and fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer”
New York, Paragon House 1988.