Steve jobs [compatibility mode]

-Presented By

Reshmi Raveendran

Roll No- 212027

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

2

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

3


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.

4


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


• 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.

6


7Biography of Steve Jobs

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.

9


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.

10


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.


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.

13


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


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.


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


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

17


Conclusion

• Jobs is an influential man who learned from his failures and gained

maturity from them

• True role model

18


Steve jobs [compatibility mode]

Technology

Transcript of Steve jobs [compatibility mode]