The Life of Steve JobsNick AdamsMatthew RadkeStacey McMillin

Young Steven JobsBorn 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

EducationSkipped 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

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

The Beginning of A CareerReturned to California in 1974 and was hired as a technician for Atari

Attended meetings at Wozniaks Homebrew Computer Club

Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in building computers

AppleBorn on April 1st, 1976

Apple I designed and prototype built

First single board computer with built-in video interface

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

Smooth SailingMost investors turned Apple down

Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula decided to invest

Markkula became chairman of Apple in May 1977

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

Smooth Sailing (Cont.)Macintosh created to compete with PC

Marketed for friendliness, not just a mindless machine

Very popular sold approximately 70,000 Macs in the first 100 days

The DownfallSales began to plunge

Wozniak quit Apple in 1985

Board members of Apple met on May 28th, 1985 and each voted on the removal of Steve from the company

Still Looking UpAfter 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

Still Looking Up (Cont.)NeXT turned a profit for the first time in 1992

NeXT software needed to be made more reliable and compatible for consumers

Company slowly starts going downhill

Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs was criticized for wasting money that belonged to the company in 1993

Closed a NeXT factory in that February

Laid off half of the employees and stopped making computers

Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs had to make drastic decisions

Microsoft purchased NeXT software

Microsoft came up with $150 million to stake in Apple

Saved a dying company.

Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs management style had drastically changed

Relaxed and was open to suggestions

Employees commented that Jobs made experimenting with electronics fun

Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs began looking into alternatives to Object Linking and Embedding

Created OpenDoc

Jobs was very serious about this

Still Looking Up (Cont.)NeXT STEP software was being turned into Mac OS X

Under Jobs guidance the company increased sales

Introduced the iMac and other new products

Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs held the title of ICEO

Very influential impact on the Apple company

By the year 2000, he created even greater advances in new technology

The New BeginningIn 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

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

The New Beginning (Cont.)First project as CEO was the G4 Cube

Was too expensive and didnt satisfy a certain market

Lasted only twelve months in Apples line-up

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

The future of Apple

The New Beginning (Cont.)Apple wanted software to sync up digital devices

Was turned down by most companies

Jobs took matters into his own hands and created iLife suite.

The New Beginning (Cont.)In 2001, Jobs opened Apple retail stores so customers could:Try out computersTest softwareMeet with salespeople

This was a large risk but he knew that people would want to buy them

Portable Audio RevolutionLess 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

Portable Audio Revolution (Cont.)In eight weeks, five million songs were sold on iTunes

Took over 80% of the legal music downloading market

More Successful ChangesJune 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch from PowerPC chips to Intel chips.

This would conserve energy on PowerBook and iBook

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

PixarPixar was Jobs second company

Swept the box office with its animated films

On January 24th, 2006, Disney bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion

ConclusionDespite 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