This document provides biographical information about Steve Jobs from his birth in 1955 through his death in 2011. It summarizes his childhood in California, time at Reed College, work at Atari, founding of Apple with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, work developing the original Macintosh and later the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, return to Apple as CEO in 1996, and his passing from cancer in 2011 recognized as one of the greatest innovators of the 21st century.

1. 1955 - 2011

2. Team Members
Suraj
Rithika
Swati
Sagar
Vandana
Suman
Manoj

3. Birt
hBorn February 24, 1955 in San
Francisco, CA
Joanne Simpson and Abdul fattah John
Jandali
Put up for adoption
Prospective parents need to send him
to college
Paul and Clara Jobs
Lower-middle class couple (not ideal)
The house Jobs grew up in

4. Childhood
• Moves to Santa Clara (Silicon) Valley
• Disorderly child, does not care about school
• 4th
grade teacher – Imogene “Teddy” Hill
– Bribed Jobs with $5 bills and candy
– Skips 5th
grade  Crittenden Middle School
• Bullied
– 11 years old
– Says he will stop going to school if he isn’t transferred
– Job move to Los Altos.

5. Teenage Years
• In Los Altos, Jobs becomes increasingly curious about
electronics that filled neighbors’ garages
• Homestead High School
• Takes popular electronics class
– Befriends Bill Fernandez
– Neighbor – introduced him to
Steve Wozniak in 1969
• Works at Hewlett-Packard Company
in summer
Mr. McCollum’s Electronics 1 class
Jobs

6. the SteveS
• Wozniak & Fernandez –The Cream Soda Computer
– Little computer board, intrigued Jobs.
• High school pranks
• “Phone freaks” – early computer hackers that built “blue boxes”
– Devices that fooled AT&T’s long-distance switching equipment  allowed to make
phone calls for free.
– Sold to Cal-Berkeley students.

7. reed College
• A private liberal arts college in Oregon
– Very expensive, but parents vowed to pay for college.
• Jobs drops out
– Felt that college was waste of money.
• Eastern mysticism
– Strange philosophies: fasting, only eating fruit, etc.

8. AtAri
• 1974 – got a job at arguable the
first video game company
• Nolan Bushnell
–Atari’s founder/ made pinball
machines
–Inspiration for Jobs

9. College- 21st
Century
• Steve Jobs persuaded his friends, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald
Wayne to help him construct and distribute computers.
• Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stock in the company two weeks
after, for $2,300, would be worth $35 Billion today.
• Wozniak and Jobs later that year, got funding from Mike
Markkula Jr. a retired millionaire from Intel.
• Needed to find an executive to help manage the company.
2066 Christ Street

10. College- 21st
Century…
• Recruited Mike Scott in 1978 to serve as CEO,
but was later replaced
– After firing 40 people, he stated,
“I used to say that when being CEO at Apple isn’t fun
anymore, I’d quit. But now I’ve changed my mind – when
it
isn’t fun anymore, I’ll fire people until it’s fun again.”

11. College- 21st
Century…
• In 1983, John Sculley, A pepsi executive, was persuaded to
replace Mike Scott.
• He was told by Steve Jobs
– “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or
do you want to come with me and change the world?”
• Sculley ended up being a very good CEO for Apple, leading to
most of it’s progression as a business.

12. College- 21st
Century…
• On January 24th
, 1984, Apple announced the release of the first
Macintosh computer.
– First commercially successful small computer with a
Graphical User Interface.
– Headed by Steve Jobs
• An industry wide slump toward the end of 1984 led to Jobs
being fired from Apple

13. College- 21st
Century…
• Jobs went on to found another computer company, The NeXT
computer.
– Very expensive, very high quality computer.
• Because the computer was so cost prohibitive, the company
had a hard time selling computers, and eventually transitioned
into software development in 1993.

14. the Big three (3)

15. College- 21st
Century…
• In 1986, Jobs bought Pixar for $10 million
• Led to much of his early financial wealth
• Sold Pixar to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 billion

16. College- 21st
Century…
• In 1996, Apple bought the NeXT computer
company, bringing Jobs back to Apple.
• He ended many programs he saw as obsolete.
• Many of the software from NeXT was integrated
into Mac’s.
– NeXTSTEP evolved into Mac OS X
• In 2000, Jobs took over as CEO of the company
– Led to much of the branching out of the company in
recent years.

17. 21st
Century – Death
• Greatest innovator of the
21st
century according to
PC magazine in the field of
technology
• Made legendary
accomplishments at 54
– Music players, music
software, digital Apple
store, laptops, tablets
and even cellular
phones

18. iPoD
• Apple created a product that
far exceeded the “big and
clunky or small and useless”
digital music players.
• The team of engineers came
out with a music player on
Oct. 23, 2001 with a 5 GB
hard drive that could fit
“1,000 songs in your pocket”

19. iPhone
• The development of the iPhone began
in 2005 by Steve Jobs; wanted Apple
to investigate touch screens
• Created through a secret
collaboration with AT&T and was
released on June 29, 2007
• Was a huge success; a total of 73.5
million iPhones sold by the end of
2010.
• Apple currently holds more than 50%
of the total profit of global cellphone
sales.

20. iPaD
• The first iPad released on April
30, 2010
– 3G (provided by AT&T) and Wi-
Fi connecting capabilities
• More successful than the original
iPhone, sold 300,000 on the first
day and sold 15 million total
• iPad 2 released on March 11,
2011
– 33% thinner and twice as fast
than first

21. aPPle-samsung Patent
war
• Complaints registered on 15-April-2011.
• Trade dress.
• Design Patent.
• Patent Right
• Damages.

22. Death of a Genius
Can you all stand for
1 minute
as a tribute for the
legendary innovator
in the area of
mobile technology.

23. Death of a Genius
• On, October 5th
, 2011, Jobs passed away from
pancreatic cancer.
• "Apple has lost a visionary and creative
genius, and the world has lost an amazing
human being [. . .]”

26. Thank You