Steve Jobs was born in 1955 and put up for adoption. He studied at Reed College but dropped out. In 1976, Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computers and released the Apple I and Apple II computers. Apple achieved great success with the 1984 release of the Macintosh, the first computer with a graphical user interface. After being ousted from Apple, Jobs started Next Computer but it failed. Apple struggled without Jobs until 1996 when it acquired Next and Jobs returned as CEO, leading Apple's revival with products like the iPod, iTunes, and iPhone. Jobs passed away in 2011 due to pancreatic cancer.

1. Presentation on Leader
By:
Akshita Bhadola
Anmol Goel
Anurag Gupta
Harshit Jain
Shivya Bhandari

3. Young Steven paul Jobs
• Born on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco,
California, United States
• Put up for adoption a week after birth
• Adoption was finalized under the condition that
Steven would attend college.
• Jobs went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon
• He studied Poetry, Literature and Physics
• After one semester, Jobs dropped out of college.

4. EDUCATION

5.  Completed elementary education from MONTA LOMA
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
 Completed junior high school from CUPERTINO JUNIOR HIGH
SCHOOL
 Completed high school from HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL IN
1972
 Completed college from REED COLLEGE IN 1972-1974

6. Apple Computers, Inc.
The Beginning of

7. • After spending time in India in 1974, Jobs returned to America.
• He visited with Woz (Steve Wozniak, one of the Co-Founder of
Apple) the homebrew computer club, but was not content with
just he creation of electronics
• Jobs convinced Woz to help him create a personal Computer, The
Apple-I ( Apple One)
• Jobs, with marketing help from a friend, had the vision of
creating a computer company that would make and sell PC’s.
• Jobs and Wozniak sold the Apple-I in 1976 for $666, making
over $776000 from sales.
• In 1977, the two released the Apple-II, a single board computer
with onboard ROM and a Color Video interface.

8. The Apple-I

9. 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 hat point.

10. 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.
 In 1996, Apple bought NeXT, and with it came Steve job.
 In 2000, Jobs became the full CEO of Apple, after the success of the iMac, the first
computer mainly marketed for its looks.

12. Challenges:
 Finance problem causing him dropping his college
 Disagreement between directors and jobs leads to firing of
jobs
Failures:
 Recruiting John Sculley as CEO of Apple
 Believing that Pixar would be a great hardware company
 Not knowing the right market for NeXT computer
 Launching numerous product failures like Apple III, Mactonish
TV
 Trying to sell Pixar numerous times

13. Comeback
• Jobs was called back by apple corp.
because of his next and was offered major
share as well as CEO position.
• 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

14. Products of Apple Computers Inc.

15. Awards
• National award of Technology and Innovation in 1985
• Jefferson award of greatest public services in 1987
• PGA Vanguard Award in 2002
• Bravo otto – social media star in 2011
• Gramme trustees award in 2012

16. End of an Era
 Date: 5th October, 2011
 Place: Palo Alto, California, United States
 Reason : Pancreatic Cancer since 2004

17. THANK YOU