Steve Jobs Steve Jobs is the most notorious business owner ever. He created the most popular electronics, from iPhone’s, to watches, to even laptops. Steve Jobs was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. He was also the CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of Walt Disney’s board of directors, and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Furthermore, his life revolved around technology, but what made him different was that his passion was working and inventing one of the world’s best communication devices.
Early Life
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who surprisingly gave him up for adoption not knowing his son …show more content…
After high school, Jobs went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking the help and direction from family, he dropped out of college after just six months. He then spent the next year and a half attending creative classes at the college. Jobs later re-attended one course of calligraphy and developed his love for typography. A few years later in 1974 Jobs took a position as a video game designer at Atari. A few months later he left the company to find his “spiritual enlightenment” in India. Two years later in 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer. They started in Jobs’ garage, funding their company by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak were credited for revolutionizing the computer industry by making machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive and easily accessible to everyday users. With Jobs in charge of Apples marketing, the computers sold for $666.66 each. The point where Apple really had its take off was when the Apple I earned the company around $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple's second model, the Apple II, the company’s sales increased by 700 percent which was $139 million. In 1980, Apple became a publicly traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion by the end of its very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing …show more content…
They later both showed it at a Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City. A couple of months later, a few big people invested in Apple and gave money to release the Apple 2 and less than a year later became the first mass-market personal computer, with impressive sales around the U.S. About a year later, the sales of the Apple 2 skyrocket after pioneer spreadsheet software Visicalc is introduced. About 3 years later, the Apple 3 came out. After that you can say that Apple went into a little drought when Steve Jobs left the company for about 10 years when he was voted out. He later returned to Apple after a few years of working with NeXT, Pixar, and wilderness. About 2 years after his return, Steve Jobs introduced the new Power Mac G3 and the color iMacs at Macworld San Francisco. A year later, he introduced the Power Mac G4 Cube and was unveiled at Macworld NY. It will be discontinued one year later because of disappointing sales. When Apple took a big jump was when Jobs released the iPod which was a little device that could hold up to 2000 songs in 2001. A couple of years later, Apple innovates the iPod to the iPod mini. The iPod mini will soon become the world's best-selling MP3 player and truly establish Apple as a consumer electronics powerhouse. On January 10, 2006, Steve Jobs unveils the first two Intel Macs at Macworld, the iMac and the
Early Life
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who surprisingly gave him up for adoption not knowing his son …show more content…
After high school, Jobs went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking the help and direction from family, he dropped out of college after just six months. He then spent the next year and a half attending creative classes at the college. Jobs later re-attended one course of calligraphy and developed his love for typography. A few years later in 1974 Jobs took a position as a video game designer at Atari. A few months later he left the company to find his “spiritual enlightenment” in India. Two years later in 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer. They started in Jobs’ garage, funding their company by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak were credited for revolutionizing the computer industry by making machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive and easily accessible to everyday users. With Jobs in charge of Apples marketing, the computers sold for $666.66 each. The point where Apple really had its take off was when the Apple I earned the company around $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple's second model, the Apple II, the company’s sales increased by 700 percent which was $139 million. In 1980, Apple became a publicly traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion by the end of its very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing …show more content…
They later both showed it at a Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City. A couple of months later, a few big people invested in Apple and gave money to release the Apple 2 and less than a year later became the first mass-market personal computer, with impressive sales around the U.S. About a year later, the sales of the Apple 2 skyrocket after pioneer spreadsheet software Visicalc is introduced. About 3 years later, the Apple 3 came out. After that you can say that Apple went into a little drought when Steve Jobs left the company for about 10 years when he was voted out. He later returned to Apple after a few years of working with NeXT, Pixar, and wilderness. About 2 years after his return, Steve Jobs introduced the new Power Mac G3 and the color iMacs at Macworld San Francisco. A year later, he introduced the Power Mac G4 Cube and was unveiled at Macworld NY. It will be discontinued one year later because of disappointing sales. When Apple took a big jump was when Jobs released the iPod which was a little device that could hold up to 2000 songs in 2001. A couple of years later, Apple innovates the iPod to the iPod mini. The iPod mini will soon become the world's best-selling MP3 player and truly establish Apple as a consumer electronics powerhouse. On January 10, 2006, Steve Jobs unveils the first two Intel Macs at Macworld, the iMac and the