contribution personality development

1. GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING
COLLEGE,BHAVNAGAR
SUBMITTED BY:-
ZADAFIYA VISHAL (110210111064)

2. The Life of Steve Jobs
Nick Adams
Matthew Radke
Stacey McMillin

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