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Steven Paul Jobs
• Born in 1955 in Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs to live in
Biography of Steve Jobs
Clara Jobs to live in Santa Clara, California
• Graduated high school in Cupertino, California
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Education
• Jobs went to Reed
College in Portland
Oregon
• He studied Poetry, • He studied Poetry,
Literature, and Physics
• After one semester,
Jobs dropped out of
school, but still
attended some classes
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Steves
• Jobs met Steve Wozniak shortly after they both left school while working for Hewlett-Packard
• “Woz” was an incredibly talented engineer, • “Woz” was an incredibly talented engineer, especially in electronic gadgets
• While developing a “blue box” device, Jobs convinced Woz to sell it to Berkeley students.
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The Beginnings of Apple
• Worked at ATARI and
went to India .After
spending time in India in
1974, Jobs returned to 1974, Jobs returned to
America
• He visited with Woz the
homebrew computer club,
but was not content with
just the creation of
electronics.5
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• Jobs convinced Woz to help him create a personal computer, the Apple I
• Jobs, with marketing help from a friend, had the vision of creating a computer company that would make and sell pc’s.
• After showing the Apple I to in town • After showing the Apple I to in town computer stores, Jobs was able to sell 25.
• After selling his Volkswagon mini-bus, and asking Woz to sell his scientific calculator, the two raised enough money to create Apple Computers.
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Apple
• Convinced former Intel executive turned business angel Mike Markkula to invest $250,000 in Apple, in January 1977. Markkula was a big believer in the personal computing revolution, predicted Apple would be one of the Fortune 500 in less than two years.
• Jobs and Woz sold the Apple I in 1976 for $666, making over $776,000 from salesfrom sales
• In 1977, the two released the Apple II, a single board computer with onboard ROM and a color video interface. Beautiful package, ease of use, and nifty features, the Apple II crushed most of its competition and its sales made the Apple founders millionaires
• The IPO took place in December 1980, only four years after the company was started. Steve Jobs's net worth increased to over $200 million, at age 25.
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Positive Growth
• From 1977 to 1983, Apple continued to grow exponentially.
• In 1981, IBM finally entered the personal computer market, and in just two years
• In 1981, IBM finally entered the personal computer market, and in just two years began to outsell Apple.
• After the failure of the Apple III and Lisa, Jobs needed a new computer that could compete with the IBM PC.
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The Macintosh
• In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, the first personal computer with a graphical user interface.
• It had 128K of memory, and was • It had 128K of memory, and was expandable.
• Along with the mouse, the Macintosh was the most revolutionary computer made up to that point.
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Microsoft and John Sculley
• In 1985, Bill Gates convinced Jobs to
license the graphical user interface in the
Macintosh to create Windows, which could Macintosh to create Windows, which could
run on IBM PC’s.
• As sales of the Macintosh took off, CEO
John Sculley thought that Jobs was hurting
Apple’s success, and gradually forced Jobs
to leave.
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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 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
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The Second Coming of Jobs
• In 1996, Apple bought
NeXT, and with it came
Steve Jobs.
• In 2000, Jobs became • In 2000, Jobs became
the full CEO of Apple,
after the success of the
iMac, the first computer
mainly marketed for its
looks.
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Pixar
• Pixar was Jobs’ second company
• Swept the box office with • Swept the box office with
its animated films
• On January 24th, 2006, Disney
bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion
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Return to Profitability and Innovation
• Jobs continued 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, new phase of growth and profitability, fueled by his imagination and quest for perfection
• Jobs is an influential man who learned from his failures and gained
maturity from them
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Conclusion
• Jobs is an influential man who learned from his failures and gained
maturity from them
• True role model
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