The presentation revels the story of Steve Jobs

1. The Life of Steve
Jobs

2. 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

3. 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

4. Education (Cont.)

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

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

22. 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

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

24. 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.

25. 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

26. 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

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

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

29. 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

30. 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

31. Conclusion
 Despite a recent scare with pancreatic cancer.
He Died on 5 October 2011, Palo Alto,
California, United States
 Jobs is an influential man who learned from
his failures and gained
maturity from them
 True role model