Steve Jobs:-CEO of Apple
The courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”by Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs founder and CEO of apple a great thinker , American Business Magnet ,Innovator ,Enterpreneur , a great person and also much more .A person whose innovation change the whole world and gave one of the best product Iphone the most expensive an most faithful and one the top most phones and build a great company.He is highly interested in machines and make great innovation . With a net worth of $ 10.2 billion .
His struggles makes a great inspiration for whole world .Many great product which gives him great economy . He was a dropout of collage but after this his mind power and innovative mind make him the owner of Apple
Personal life of Steve Jobs
Full Name
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Steve Paul Jobs
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Date of Birth
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February 24 ,1955
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Net Worth
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US$ 10.2 billion
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Expire on
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5 October 2011
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Spouse
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Laurene Paul
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Post
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Founder and CEO of Apple
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Earlier Life of Steve Jobs
Early Life Steve Jobs was born to two unmarried graduate students in 1955 (curiously, just 9 months before Microsoft founder Bill Gates). His parents gave him up for adoption, and Jobs was 30 years old and well in the midst of tech stardom before he learned about his birth parents, the Simpsons. Growing up, the only family he knew was his adoptive parents, a couple from Mountain View, California who fostered his interest in taking a part and rebuilding machines. His father, Paul Jobs, was a machinist who taught Jobs about electronics from an early age. Working in the family garage, the two spenthours tinkering on projects.
During these work sessions in the garage,Jobs’ father taught him a lesson that has made its way into Apple products of all shapes and sizes. Jobs later described this, saying, “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic,the quality, has to be carried all the way through”
Early Work By the time he entered high school, Jobs was already working at Hewlett-Packard, where a cold call to the CEO had earned him a job offer. But while he was in high school his interestsbegan to diversify quite a bit. Jobs discovered a love for the classics andfor literature in general - Dylan Thomas and Shakespeare were particular favorites. During his senior year, Jobs was so excelling in English that he was able to take classes at Stanford. When it came time to attend college, though,Jobs opted to attend Reed State in Oregon. But, well, that didn’t last long. After only one semester, Jobs’ previous a version to formal education reared its head and he dropped out. He continued dropping in on classes that interested him, though he wasn’t earning credits and wasn’t paying for anything. Interestingly, one of those drop-in classes greatly affected his future. Something that he explained in his famous 2005 Stanford commencement address (something, by the way, that is well worth watching). "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."
He went to India in search of spiritual enlightenment,something that was rather in fashion in the 60s and 70s. He did this trip on an incredibly tight budget- he slept on the street, sweated on crowded buses, and ate the bare minimum. He also must have eaten some pretty sketchy food, reportedly getting dysentery and losing forty pounds. During this time he was also meditating and learning about Zen Buddhism. He wanted to go to Tibet, but after his travelers’checks were stolen he decided to head home to the U.S. Back home, he continued his practice of meditation,as well as another habit he’d picked up. He use of psychedelic drugs.
Jobs was a big fan of LSD, a drug he started using in college and would credit with expanding his creativity and vision of the world: “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
In 1976, Jobs suggested selling it, and heand Wozniak officially started Apple Computers. The company was first run out Jobs’ parents’garage, and most of their customers were hobbyists. But enough computer hobbyists were lay in gout money for the Apple I that Jobs and Wozniak had cash in their pockets. Jobs began searching for investors, and Wozniak kept designing. In 1977, just a year after the company launched,they put out another version of their computer, the Apple II. This time, it had color graphics and was much more user-friendly allowing for it to be used outside of just the hobbiest market. They sold $3 million of the Apple II in their first year alone, but this figure was about to become dwarfed. Two years later, they had sold $200 million worth,but again, this seemingly huge number was about to be dwarfed again.In 1980, only four years after their launch,Jobs and Wozniak went public.
By the end of Apple’s first day of public trading the company was worth an astounding $1.2 BILLION. Steve Jobs was only twenty-five years old. Family During the nascent years of Apple, Jobs was dealing with much personal turmoil. His longtime on-again, off-again girlfriend Chrisann Brennan had moved in with him, and she got pregnant. Jobs was, by all accounts, not thrilled about this news. He later told Brennan: “I never wanted to ask that you get an abortion. I just didn't want to do that." Brennan had been offered a job at Apple, but given Jobs’ reaction to her pregnancy she did not want to take it. She left him and their house, and began working as a cleaner. Despite asking for support from Jobs, he did not provide any support for his child until a paternity confirmed that he was the father. Even then, despite his company being worth over a billion dollars, he was only required to provide $500 a month in child support. Despite these early problems, Lisa and Jobs later reconciled, and Lisa even lived with Jobs during her high school years. She then attended Harvard, and today works as a writer in New York City.
Though it took him years to admit to it, Jobs named one of Apple’s early products after his daughter. But the LISA computer was not as successful as the Apple II had been. This failure was followed by another - the Apple III, which again failed to live up to expectations (and not just Job’s expectations,but everyones).
And in 1983, they did just that. They didn’t fire him though, they just sent him to “Siberia” Most Apple employees were probably pleased to see him go.He was notoriously difficult to deal with,and a former Apple employee described Jobs’ attitude toward work as "management by character assassination." By 1985, he was tired of hanging out in Siberia and decided to leave the company he had founded and start a brand new one. "What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating," Jobs said of this experience. "I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me-I still loved what I did. And so I decided to start over.”
He started “Next Computer Company,” which brought its first product to market in 1988. That computer, though, it had a price of $10,000,a price way higher than most consumer were willing to pay. Needless to say, it didn’t sell well. It wasn’t a good start for Job’s fledging company and so he decided to shift the company to building software. Pixar But Jobs’ focus was drawn elsewhere.some where rather unusual - the movies. In 1986, he bought Pixar from George Lucas. As part of his dream for this company, Jobs wanted to be responsible for the first movie done entirely with computer-animation. It took four years, but he eventually achieved that dream. That movie was Toy Story. It was released in November 1995 it became a favorite film for kids and adults, and to this day maintains a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.. A year after the release of Toy Story, there was even better news. Jobs took Pixar public and in something of a deja vu situation, his shares were worth one BILLION dollars after the first day of trading. This first day of trading was the first in a string of good days for Jobs. Shortly after Pixar went public,
He negotiated a financial deal with Microsoft that brought Apple cash flow it needed to stay a float, while helping Microsoft avoid the perception that they were a monopoly. Then, he envisioned the big idea that helped bring Apple back to profitability in its own right - the iMac. It was in 1998 that Apple released the brightly colored, egg-shaped desktop computer called the iMac. The iMac is even still made today although it looks rather different today! From the iMac forward, Apple and Jobs just couldn’t miss.
They revolutionized the way people listen to music in 2001 with the iPod, and then the way they communicated in 2007 with the iPhone,and then were pioneers in the tablet market with the 2010 release of the iPad. Jobs once said of Apple, "We started out to get a computer in the hands of everyday people, and we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams." Today, it’s nearly impossible to walk down the street without seeing someone with an Apple-made device in their hands.
When Jobs was introduced to Mona, she was still searching for their father. Jobs joined her in the search, and what they found out was surprising. Their father was not in Syria working in academia .Rather, their father was living in California and running a restaurant. Incredibly, Jobs said he had met the man Mona identified as their father, he had shaken his hand, had eaten in his restaurant but never knew he was his father. Jobs had no interest in getting to know his father as he had gotten to know his mother and Mona, though, explaining his decision by saying, “I learned a little bit about him and I didn’t like what I learned.” While getting to know his birth family,
Sickness Amidst all of the successes of the early years of the 21st Century, Jobs was not free from worry. And neither was Apple Computers. In 2003, Jobs received the news all of used read - he had cancer. His doctors had found a cancerous tumor in his pancreas, and though operable it was a rare form of cancer. Jobs refused to listen to his doctors and have an operation right away, though. Instead he opted to explore other options,namely veganism and acupuncture. In 2004, with these alternative methods not improving his condition, Jobs opted to have the tumor surgically removed. Several cancer specialists have since said that period of waiting may have cost Jobs years of his life. In 2005, Jobs gave a commencement addressat Stanford University that frankly and poignantly discussed his thoughts on life and death nowt hat he had to confront the matter head-on The fifteen minute speech reflected on three moments in his life that helped get him to where he was, and in telling those stories he imparted a message to the graduates - and to the world - to do what you love, rememberyou are going to die, and have trust in your inner voice. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is themost important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything-all external expectations,all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure-these things just fall away in the face of death,leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is thebest way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart,"he said. He closed the speech with simple words fromthe 1970s counter-cultural magazine The Whole Earth Catalog: “Stay hungry. Stay Foolish.” The commencement address struck a chord aroundthe world. It has been viewed over 27 million times onYouTube and serves as an inspiration, and a stark reminder of our limited time on Earth. It is a speech that truly every human canrelate to, given by a man whose mind and drive were far more extraordinary than most humans… Death Jobs continued to work at Apple followingthe surgery, but in 2008 people began asking questions about his health as his appearancebegan to show his illness.
During these work sessions in the garage,Jobs’ father taught him a lesson that has made its way into Apple products of all shapes and sizes. Jobs later described this, saying, “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic,the quality, has to be carried all the way through”
Collage Life of Steve Jobs
Though Jobs showed an early interest in mechanics and design, he did not show early promise in school. His mother had taught him to read as a toddler,but he was bored in school and often goofed off, a habit that frustrated one teacher to the point of bribing him to behave. This teacher saw potential in a young Jobs,and Jobs later credited Mrs. Hill with being one of the “saints” of his life. Jobs so excelled in that fourth grade class with Mrs. Hill that he skipped over the fifth grade entirely and headed straight for middle school. This jump ahead was tough for him initially:he was bullied and became a bit of a loner. Indeed, he disliked middle school so much that he told his parents that if he couldn’t switch schools he would just stop going to school altogether. To keep Jobs in school, the family moved from Mountain View to Los Altos, and Jobs settled into the Cupertino School District. It was here, that he met and befriended Bill Fernandez, another student interested in electronics. Fernandez later played a critical role in the creation of Apple computers when he introduced Jobs to his neighbor - another electronics aficionado, and someone you might have heard of His neighbour was Steve Wozniak (more on him in a minute).Early Work By the time he entered high school, Jobs was already working at Hewlett-Packard, where a cold call to the CEO had earned him a job offer. But while he was in high school his interestsbegan to diversify quite a bit. Jobs discovered a love for the classics andfor literature in general - Dylan Thomas and Shakespeare were particular favorites. During his senior year, Jobs was so excelling in English that he was able to take classes at Stanford. When it came time to attend college, though,Jobs opted to attend Reed State in Oregon. But, well, that didn’t last long. After only one semester, Jobs’ previous a version to formal education reared its head and he dropped out. He continued dropping in on classes that interested him, though he wasn’t earning credits and wasn’t paying for anything. Interestingly, one of those drop-in classes greatly affected his future. Something that he explained in his famous 2005 Stanford commencement address (something, by the way, that is well worth watching). "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."
Starting of Carrier
Career Beginning Despite being a college dropout, Jobs was able to secure a job with Atari computers in 1974. He worked as a tech, assisting the engineers who were doing the heavy duty coding work. Jobs didn’t have a lot of money at this time, and he was trying to scrape funds together to travel to India to study Eastern religion- his interests in things outside technology had stuck around. The head of Atari, Neil Bushnell, years later said he thought Jobs was saving money by actually living in the office.“I'm not sure about this but I actually think Steve was living there, so people used to complain that he didn't smell that well. I'd come in on the weekend and he'd be there,I'd come in late at night and he'd be there." The time at Atari also marked a key point in the friendship between Jobs and his old friend Steve Wozniak. Jobs was assigned to design a circuit board for the video game Breakout, and he approached Wozniak to help because Atari was offering a bonus if it could be designed using fewer chips. Jobs also needed the project completed inonly four days. What Jobs didn’t tell Wozniak was that Atari had offered Jobs a large bonus for using fewer chips - a bonus Jobs received and kept for himself even though Wozniak did the majority of the work. When Wozniak found out about the lie ten years later, he is reported to have cried. But Wozniak didn’t know of Jobs’ deceit at the time, and the two continued experimenting with technology together. But, their tinkering was put on hold for seven months, though, when Job’s alleged living in the office had saved him enough money to travel to India.He went to India in search of spiritual enlightenment,something that was rather in fashion in the 60s and 70s. He did this trip on an incredibly tight budget- he slept on the street, sweated on crowded buses, and ate the bare minimum. He also must have eaten some pretty sketchy food, reportedly getting dysentery and losing forty pounds. During this time he was also meditating and learning about Zen Buddhism. He wanted to go to Tibet, but after his travelers’checks were stolen he decided to head home to the U.S. Back home, he continued his practice of meditation,as well as another habit he’d picked up. He use of psychedelic drugs.
Jobs was a big fan of LSD, a drug he started using in college and would credit with expanding his creativity and vision of the world: “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
Beginning of Apple
The Beginning of Apple Back in the United States, Jobs had no money and lived in his parents’ tool shed that he had converted to a bedroom. But he and Wozniak continued to work on computers,with Jobs convincing Wozniak that at least one of Wozniak’s early products was sellable. Wozniak had built a product, known as a ‘bluebox’ that could mimic the tones of a telephone system and essentially trick a phone into making a free long distance call for the user. With technology today we don’t think twice about calling someone on the other side of the planet, but In the 1970s this was a big deal. Now, as you might have guessed, these blueboxes were totally illegal, but they still sold well. Yep, Steve Job’s first business . Selling illegal devices to make long distance phone calls for free! Now, the next brain child that Wozniak had was much more legitimate. It was a product that would become the Apple I.In 1976, Jobs suggested selling it, and heand Wozniak officially started Apple Computers. The company was first run out Jobs’ parents’garage, and most of their customers were hobbyists. But enough computer hobbyists were lay in gout money for the Apple I that Jobs and Wozniak had cash in their pockets. Jobs began searching for investors, and Wozniak kept designing. In 1977, just a year after the company launched,they put out another version of their computer, the Apple II. This time, it had color graphics and was much more user-friendly allowing for it to be used outside of just the hobbiest market. They sold $3 million of the Apple II in their first year alone, but this figure was about to become dwarfed. Two years later, they had sold $200 million worth,but again, this seemingly huge number was about to be dwarfed again.In 1980, only four years after their launch,Jobs and Wozniak went public.
By the end of Apple’s first day of public trading the company was worth an astounding $1.2 BILLION. Steve Jobs was only twenty-five years old. Family During the nascent years of Apple, Jobs was dealing with much personal turmoil. His longtime on-again, off-again girlfriend Chrisann Brennan had moved in with him, and she got pregnant. Jobs was, by all accounts, not thrilled about this news. He later told Brennan: “I never wanted to ask that you get an abortion. I just didn't want to do that." Brennan had been offered a job at Apple, but given Jobs’ reaction to her pregnancy she did not want to take it. She left him and their house, and began working as a cleaner. Despite asking for support from Jobs, he did not provide any support for his child until a paternity confirmed that he was the father. Even then, despite his company being worth over a billion dollars, he was only required to provide $500 a month in child support. Despite these early problems, Lisa and Jobs later reconciled, and Lisa even lived with Jobs during her high school years. She then attended Harvard, and today works as a writer in New York City.
Though it took him years to admit to it, Jobs named one of Apple’s early products after his daughter. But the LISA computer was not as successful as the Apple II had been. This failure was followed by another - the Apple III, which again failed to live up to expectations (and not just Job’s expectations,but everyones).
Fired From His Own Company
Getting Sent to “Siberia” Despite Apple being Job’s company, the fact that is was public, meant that the Apple board had the power to out him as CEO.And in 1983, they did just that. They didn’t fire him though, they just sent him to “Siberia” Most Apple employees were probably pleased to see him go.He was notoriously difficult to deal with,and a former Apple employee described Jobs’ attitude toward work as "management by character assassination." By 1985, he was tired of hanging out in Siberia and decided to leave the company he had founded and start a brand new one. "What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating," Jobs said of this experience. "I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me-I still loved what I did. And so I decided to start over.”
He started “Next Computer Company,” which brought its first product to market in 1988. That computer, though, it had a price of $10,000,a price way higher than most consumer were willing to pay. Needless to say, it didn’t sell well. It wasn’t a good start for Job’s fledging company and so he decided to shift the company to building software. Pixar But Jobs’ focus was drawn elsewhere.some where rather unusual - the movies. In 1986, he bought Pixar from George Lucas. As part of his dream for this company, Jobs wanted to be responsible for the first movie done entirely with computer-animation. It took four years, but he eventually achieved that dream. That movie was Toy Story. It was released in November 1995 it became a favorite film for kids and adults, and to this day maintains a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.. A year after the release of Toy Story, there was even better news. Jobs took Pixar public and in something of a deja vu situation, his shares were worth one BILLION dollars after the first day of trading. This first day of trading was the first in a string of good days for Jobs. Shortly after Pixar went public,
Returning Back in Apple
Apple put out the welcome mat for Steve Jobs to return. When he returned in 1997 the company was operating at a loss, and they needed Jobs’ vision and drive back at the helm. Apple also announced that they would buy the struggling Next Computer Company - turning a previous failure of Jobs into a success... Return to Apple Jobs triumphantly returned to the company that he founded. The company wanted him to bring Apple to the fore front of the personal computer market. Within months of his return, Jobs was named CEO. He paid himself a salary of only one dollar a year, and in exchange brought both business acumen and creative design ideas to the companyHe negotiated a financial deal with Microsoft that brought Apple cash flow it needed to stay a float, while helping Microsoft avoid the perception that they were a monopoly. Then, he envisioned the big idea that helped bring Apple back to profitability in its own right - the iMac. It was in 1998 that Apple released the brightly colored, egg-shaped desktop computer called the iMac. The iMac is even still made today although it looks rather different today! From the iMac forward, Apple and Jobs just couldn’t miss.
They revolutionized the way people listen to music in 2001 with the iPod, and then the way they communicated in 2007 with the iPhone,and then were pioneers in the tablet market with the 2010 release of the iPad. Jobs once said of Apple, "We started out to get a computer in the hands of everyday people, and we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams." Today, it’s nearly impossible to walk down the street without seeing someone with an Apple-made device in their hands.
Jobs Family and Relatives
Through these years of professional success,Jobs had still found the time to focus on his family. In 1986 his adoptive mother was diagnosed with lung cancer, and this, for the first time, prompted Jobs’ interest in his biological parents. When his adoptive mother passed away, Jobs spoke to his father about contacting his birth parents, whose names he had on documents from his parents. Jobs met both his birth mother, Joanna Scheible ,and his biological sister, Mona Simpson, shortly after his adoptive mother died. Scheible and Jobs’ birth father had divorced in 1962 when the Syrian migrant opted to return to Syria after earning his PhD.When Jobs was introduced to Mona, she was still searching for their father. Jobs joined her in the search, and what they found out was surprising. Their father was not in Syria working in academia .Rather, their father was living in California and running a restaurant. Incredibly, Jobs said he had met the man Mona identified as their father, he had shaken his hand, had eaten in his restaurant but never knew he was his father. Jobs had no interest in getting to know his father as he had gotten to know his mother and Mona, though, explaining his decision by saying, “I learned a little bit about him and I didn’t like what I learned.” While getting to know his birth family,
Jobs also decided to start a family of his own. In 1989, Jobs gave a lecture at Stanford Business School and he was riveted by a woman in the front row. "She was right there in the front row in the lecture hall, and I couldn't take my eyes off of her kept losing my train of thought,and started feeling a little giddy," this is how he described feeling when he first saw Laurene Powell. Laurene Powell was an MBA student at Stanford,and Jobs struck up a conversation with her after the lecture. He invited her out to dinner that night, and the two began a romantic relationship. A Zen Buddhist monk presided over their wedding ceremony at Yosemite National Park in 1991, and over the next seven years the couple had three children. They remained married until Jobs’ death in 2011.
Jobs Sickness and Died
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