Steve Jobs was born in 1955 and put up for adoption. He dropped out of college but taught himself programming. He co-founded Apple in 1976 and led the company to massive success with the Apple II and Macintosh. However, Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985. He went on to found NeXT which was later acquired by Apple. Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 and transformed the struggling company with products like the iMac, iPod, and iPhone which became enormously popular. Under his leadership, Apple became the most valuable company in the world. Jobs passed away in 2011 after battling pancreatic cancer for many years.

2. The Life of
Steve Jobs and
Apple at a
Glance

3. Young Steven Jobs
 Born on February 24th, 1955 in San
Francisco, California
 Put up for adoption a week after birth
 Adoption was finalized under the
condition that Steven would attend
college

4. Education
 Skipped 5th grade
 Took his first electronics
class in high school
 After school, attended lectures at the
Hewlett-Packard company where he
met Steve Wonzniak during work

5. Education (Cont.)
 Graduated high school in 1972
 Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon
 Dropped out after one semester
 Slept on his friends dorm room floor
and dropped in on classes of interest

6. The Beginning of A Career
 Returned to California in 1974 and was
hired as a technician for Atari
 Attended meetings at
Wozniak’s “Homebrew
Computer Club”
 Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him
in building computers

7. Apple
 Born on April 1st, 1976
 Apple I designed and prototype built
 First single board computer with built-
in video interface

8. Apple (Cont.)
 Apple II designed in the following year
 Operating System loaded automatically
 Smaller Components & built-in
circuitry
 In 1976, Jobs looked to hire a
public relations agency to help
advertise

9. Smooth Sailing
 Most investors turned Apple down
 Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula
decided to invest
 Markkula became chairman
of Apple in May 1977

10. Smooth Sailing (Cont.)
 Became publicly traded company in 1980
 Launched LISA in 1983
 First commercial
computer to use GUI
 Unpopular due to its few software programs
and high price

11. Smooth Sailing (Cont.)
 Macintosh created to compete with PC
 Marketed for friendliness, not just a
mindless machine
 Very popular – sold approximately
70,000 Macs in the first 100 days

12. The Downfall
 Sales began to plunge
 Wozniak quit Apple in 1985
 Board members of Apple met on May
28th, 1985 and each voted on the
removal of Steve from the company

13. Still Looking Up
 After taking time off, Jobs wanted to
get back to Apple and his love for
computers
 Decided to start his own
company
 Founded NeXT Computer in 1989

14. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
 NeXT turned a profit for the first time
in 1992
 NeXT software needed to be made
more reliable and compatible for
consumers
 Company slowly starts going downhill

15. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
 Jobs was criticized for wasting money
that belonged to the company in 1993
 Closed a NeXT factory in that
February
 Laid off half of the employees and
stopped making computers

16. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
 Jobs had to make drastic decisions
 Microsoft purchased NeXT software
 Microsoft came up with $150 million to
stake in Apple
 Saved a dying company.

17. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
 Jobs management style had
drastically changed
 Relaxed and was open to suggestions
 Employees commented that Jobs
made experimenting with electronics
fun

18. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
 Jobs began looking into alternatives to
Object Linking and Embedding
 Created OpenDoc
 Jobs was very serious about this

19. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
 NeXT STEP software was being
turned into Mac OS X
 Under Jobs’ guidance the company
increased sales
 Introduced the iMac and other new
products

20. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
 Jobs held the title of ICEO
 Very influential impact on the Apple
company
 By the year 2000, he created even
greater advances in new technology

21. The New Beginning
 In early 2000, Pixar leads animated film
industry
 Later that month,
Jobs announced his
return to the CEO
position
 Insisted on keeping his $1 annual salary

22. The New Beginning (Cont.)
 Although his salary was low, the
company granted him ten million
shares of Apple stock worth hundreds
of millions

23. The New Beginning (Cont.)
 First project as CEO was the G4 Cube
 Was too expensive
and didn’t satisfy a
certain market
 Lasted only twelve
months in Apple’s line-up

24. The New Beginning (Cont.)
 The next step for Steve was his
newest operating system, Mac OS X
 The future of Apple

25. The New Beginning (Cont.)
 Apple wanted software to sync up
digital devices
 Was turned down by most companies
 Jobs took matters into his own hands
and created iLife suite.

26. The New Beginning (Cont.)
 In 2001, Jobs opened Apple retail
stores so customers could:
1. Try out computers
2. Test software
3. Meet with salespeople
 This was a large risk but he knew that
people would want to buy them

27. Portable Audio Revolution
 Less than a year after iTunes was released,
Apple released the iPod
 Originally only for Mac users
 In July 2002, the new iPod was
available for Windows users as
well
 Sales skyrocketed and 75% of MP3 players
are iPods

28. Portable Audio Revolution
(Cont.)
 In eight weeks, five million songs were
sold on iTunes
 Took over 80% of the legal music
downloading market

29. More Successful Changes
 June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced
switch from PowerPC chips to Intel
chips.
 This would conserve
energy on PowerBook
and iBook

30. More Successful Changes
(Cont.)
 October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was
introduced
 Could play music
videos and TV shows
 Jobs announced the
opening of the iTunes
video store

31. Pixar
 Pixar was Jobs’ second company
 Swept the box office with
its animated films
 On January 24th, 2006, Disney
bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion

32. Conclusion
 Despite a recent scare with pancreatic
cancer, Jobs is back in health and
doing just fine
 Jobs is an influential man who learned
from
his failures and gained
maturity from them
 True role model

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