The Life of Steve Jobs
Nick Adams
Matthew Radke
Stacey McMillin
Young Steven Jobs
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Born on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco,
California
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Put up for adoption a week after birth
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Adoption was finalized under the condition that
Steven would attend college
Education
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Skipped 5th grade
Took his first electronics
class in high school
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After school, attended lectures at the HewlettPackard company where he met Steve Wonzniak
during work
Education (Cont.)
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Graduated high school in 1972
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Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon
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Dropped out after one semester
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Slept on his friends dorm room floor and
dropped in on classes of interest
The Beginning of A Career
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Returned to California in 1974 and was hired as a
technician for Atari
Attended meetings at
Wozniak’s “Homebrew
Computer Club”
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Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in building
computers
Apple
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Born on April 1st, 1976
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Apple I designed and prototype built
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First single board computer with built-in video
interface
Apple (Cont.)
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Apple II designed in the following year
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Operating System loaded automatically
Smaller Components & built-in
circuitry
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In 1976, Jobs looked to hire a
public relations agency to help
advertise
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Smooth Sailing
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Most investors turned Apple down
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Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula decided
to invest
Markkula became chairman
of Apple in May 1977
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Smooth Sailing (Cont.)
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Became publicly traded company in 1980
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Launched LISA in 1983
First commercial
computer to use GUI
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Unpopular due to its few software programs and high
price
Smooth Sailing (Cont.)
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Macintosh created to compete with PC
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Marketed for friendliness, not just a mindless
machine
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Very popular – sold approximately 70,000 Macs
in the first 100 days
The Downfall
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Sales began to plunge
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Wozniak quit Apple in 1985
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Board members of Apple met on May 28th,
1985 and each voted on the removal of Steve
from the company
Still Looking Up
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After taking time off, Jobs wanted to get back to
Apple and his love for computers
Decided to start his own
company
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Founded NeXT Computer in 1989
Still Looking Up (Cont.)
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NeXT turned a profit for the first time in 1992
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NeXT software needed to be made more
reliable and compatible for consumers
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Company slowly starts going downhill
Still Looking Up (Cont.)
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Jobs was criticized for wasting money that
belonged to the company in 1993
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Closed a NeXT factory in that February
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Laid off half of the employees and stopped
making computers
Still Looking Up (Cont.)
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Jobs had to make drastic decisions
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Microsoft purchased NeXT software
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Microsoft came up with $150 million to stake in
Apple
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Saved a dying company.
Still Looking Up (Cont.)
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Jobs management style had drastically changed
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Relaxed and was open to suggestions
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Employees commented that Jobs made
experimenting with electronics fun
Still Looking Up (Cont.)
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Jobs began looking into alternatives to Object
Linking and Embedding
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Created OpenDoc
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Jobs was very serious about this
Still Looking Up (Cont.)
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NeXT STEP software was being turned into
Mac OS X
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Under Jobs’ guidance the company increased
sales
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Introduced the iMac and other new products
Still Looking Up (Cont.)
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Jobs held the title of ICEO
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Very influential impact on the Apple company
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By the year 2000, he created even greater
advances in new technology
The New Beginning
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In early 2000, Pixar leads animated film industry
Later that month,
Jobs announced his
return to the CEO
position
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Insisted on keeping his $1 annual salary
The New Beginning (Cont.)
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Although his salary was low, the company
granted him ten million shares of Apple stock
worth hundreds of millions
The New Beginning (Cont.)
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First project as CEO was the G4 Cube
Was too expensive
and didn’t satisfy a
certain market
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Lasted only twelve
months in Apple’s line-up
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The New Beginning (Cont.)
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The next step for Steve was his newest operating
system, Mac OS X
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The future of Apple
The New Beginning (Cont.)
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Apple wanted software to sync up digital devices
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Was turned down by most companies
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Jobs took matters into his own hands and
created iLife suite.
The New Beginning (Cont.)
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In 2001, Jobs opened Apple retail stores so
customers could:
1.
2.
3.
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Try out computers
Test software
Meet with salespeople
This was a large risk but he knew that people would
want to buy them
Portable Audio Revolution
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Less than a year after iTunes was released, Apple
released the iPod
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Originally only for Mac users
In July 2002, the new iPod was
available for Windows users as
well
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Sales skyrocketed and 75% of MP3 players are iPods
Portable Audio Revolution (Cont.)
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In eight weeks, five million songs were sold on
iTunes
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Took over 80% of the legal music downloading
market
More Successful Changes
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June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch
from PowerPC chips to Intel chips.
This would conserve
energy on PowerBook
and iBook
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More Successful Changes (Cont.)
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October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was introduced
Could play music
videos and TV shows
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Jobs announced the
opening of the iTunes
video store
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Pixar
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Pixar was Jobs’ second company
Swept the box office with
its animated films
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On January 24th, 2006, Disney
bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion
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Conclusion
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Despite 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
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True role model