Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California February 24, 1955. The unnamed baby was given up for adoption and taken in by Clara and Paul Jobs. Clara was an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and mechanist. The baby was named Steve Paul Jobs. The family lived in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. When Steve was younger, him and his father worked on electronics in their garage. While Jobs was an intelligent thinker, there was always problems with him in school. He was a prankster in elementary school because he was so bored. Job's 4th grade teacher bribed him to study. Steve ended up scoring so well that administrators wanted him to skip to high school. His parents declined the offer. A few years later when Steve went
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Steve took a job at Atari in 1974. Only several months later he left to find spiritual enlightenment through Buddhism in India. After he returned in 1976-at just 21 years old-him and Steve Wozniak paired up again and started Apple Computer. They started in Steve's family garage, getting their money by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus, and Wozniak selling his prized scientific calculator. The two were credited by revolutionizing the computer industry. Wozniak created a series of user-friendly person computers and-with Jobs in charge of marketing-the Apple company marketed the computers for $666.66 …show more content…
The following year he bought an animating company from George Lucas (that worked on Star Wars) that later became know as Pixar Animation Studios. Steve believed in the company and invested $50 million of his own money into Pixar. The studio used this to pump out movies such as "Toy Story", "Finding Nemo", and "The Incredibles." Pixar came together with Walt Disney in 2006 making Steve Jobs one of Disney's largest share holders. Overlooking Pixar's success, NeXT failed in its attempts to sell its special operating system. The next year Apple bought NeXT and Steve returned to CEO of Apple. Just as he instigated the company in the 70's, Jobs also is credited with doing the same in the 90's, leading the company back on track. His brilliant products (such as the IMac) and effective stylish designs and branding campaigns hooked the attention of consumers once again. Apple is almost the first company in the world to be worth a trillion dollars
Steve took a job at Atari in 1974. Only several months later he left to find spiritual enlightenment through Buddhism in India. After he returned in 1976-at just 21 years old-him and Steve Wozniak paired up again and started Apple Computer. They started in Steve's family garage, getting their money by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus, and Wozniak selling his prized scientific calculator. The two were credited by revolutionizing the computer industry. Wozniak created a series of user-friendly person computers and-with Jobs in charge of marketing-the Apple company marketed the computers for $666.66 …show more content…
The following year he bought an animating company from George Lucas (that worked on Star Wars) that later became know as Pixar Animation Studios. Steve believed in the company and invested $50 million of his own money into Pixar. The studio used this to pump out movies such as "Toy Story", "Finding Nemo", and "The Incredibles." Pixar came together with Walt Disney in 2006 making Steve Jobs one of Disney's largest share holders. Overlooking Pixar's success, NeXT failed in its attempts to sell its special operating system. The next year Apple bought NeXT and Steve returned to CEO of Apple. Just as he instigated the company in the 70's, Jobs also is credited with doing the same in the 90's, leading the company back on track. His brilliant products (such as the IMac) and effective stylish designs and branding campaigns hooked the attention of consumers once again. Apple is almost the first company in the world to be worth a trillion dollars