Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 out of his garage at age 20. He and Steve Wozniak debuted the Apple I computer and later incorporated Apple. Although successful early on, Apple struggled in the 1980s but found success again with the Macintosh computer in the late 1980s. Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985 but went on to found NeXT and later become CEO of Pixar. In 1996, Apple acquired NeXT and Jobs returned to Apple as CEO, leading its turnaround with products like the iPod and iPhone. Jobs emphasized passion and building a talented team as keys to his success.

1. STEVE JOBS

2. BACKGROUND
• Born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California.
• His unwed mother put him for adoption because she wanted a
girl.
• His mother felt that he should be adopted by college graduates
and when she found out that both his future parents had never
graduated from colleges, she refused to sign the adoption
papers until a few months later when his future parents
promised that they would send Jobs to college.
• Steve drop college because it is too expensive for him.

3. JOBS AND APPLE
• He and a friend (Steve Wozniak) started a company in a garage
on April 1, 1976 at the age of 20.
• Later that year, they debuted the Apple I at the Homebrew
Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.
• A local store offered to buy 50 machines and to finance the
production, they had to sell their most expensive possessions.
• Jobs sold his Volkswagen van while Wozniak sold his Hewlett-
Packard scientific calculator.

4. • Jobs named their company – Apple in memory of a happy summer
he had spent as an orchard worker in Oregon.
• By 1982 however, his company sales sagged in the face of
competition from IBM’s new PC. Thus, Jobs and Wozniak unveiled
their new creation, Lisa to increase the company’s bottom line, only
to be another expensive failure.

5. • Then they worked on a new machine called the Macintosh
• Jobs was reported to commandeered the project, ruthlessly
pushing its computer engineers and flying a pirate flag above
the building where the team worked.

6. • By 1986 the Mac, which Jobs promised to be ‘insanely great’ was a
huge success. After 10 years, starting from 2 kids working in a garage,
Apple computer had grown into a $2 billion dollar company with over
4000 employees.
• At the age of 30, Jobs, however, was fired from the company he co-
founded with Steve Wozniak. He left the company after losing a bitter
battle over control with Apple’s CEO John Sculley (whom Jobs had
recruited from Pepsi Cola).
Macintosh

7. AFTER APPLE
• Apparently both have different views of how the company should be
handled and in one meeting Sculley had told security analysts in a meeting
that Jobs would have no role in the operations of the company “now or in
the future.”
• When Jobs heard of the message, he said, “You’ve probably had
somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind out you and
you cannot breathe. The harder you try to breathe, the more you cannot
breathe. And you know that the only thing you can do is just relax so you
can start breathing again.”
• Jobs sold over $20 million of his Apple stock, spent days bicycling along
the beach, feeling sad and lost, toured Paris, and journeyed on to Italy

8. • During the next five years he started two companies – NeXTStep and
Pixar. NeXTStep which produces NeXT, $9,995 cube-shaped
workstation which aimed to create a workstation for research and
higher, didn’t do as well as Jobs had dreamed for. It did poorly and
Jobs pulled the plug in 1993.
• Pixar, however was a success story. The company started the first
computeranimated film, the Toy Story and when Pixar’s stock went
public, Jobs became an instant billionaire.

9. JOBS, BACK WITH VENGEANCE
• Meanwhile, his old company, Apple was under immense
pressure from rival Microsoft and in1996 posted billions of
dollars in losses.
• In December 1996 Jobs convinced Apple to buy NeXT and
make its software the foundation of the next-generation Mac
OS.
• The technology he developed at NeXT became the catalyst of
Apple’s comeback. Initially appointed as Apple’s adviser, Steve
Jobs was named Apple’s
• interim CEO in 1997.

10. • In 2004, he was diagnosed with cancer on his
pancreas. Jobs was told that the cancer was incurable
and he would only live for another three to six
months.
• Later, a biopsy showed that he actually had a very
rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with
surgery. He had the surgery and survives. Under his
leadership, Apple returned to profitability and
introduced innovations such as the iPod.

12. JOBS SECRET TO SUCCESS

13. Steve Jobs: These are 2 essential ingredients for success
• passion and people.
• It's one of the greatest sources of motivation, he said.
• "If you don't love it, if you're not having fun doing it, you don't really
love it, you‘re going to give up.“
• the other component to building a successful business is your ability
to attract and retain the best team members.
• "You've got to be a really good talent scout because no matter how
smart you are, you need a team of great people," said Jobs.