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. 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

12. 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

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

14. 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

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

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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