Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs was an American person who was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California whom we now name as “Steve Jobs”. He is the co-founder of Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak. Jobs is the creator of the series of iPhone and iPad and the only thought in his head was “computers in the hands of everyday people”.
Who among us doesn’t know about Apple and its products which expanded the technology like anything? And the artist behind this technology development is none other than “Steve Jobs” as we all know. So I am very sure, those who love Apple products and the Jobs followers would love to know about his story and the way he walked to reach the level where we found him. In this article, I am going to tell you the journey of Jobs.
Early stage of job and life:
His natural parents were Abdul Fattah Jandali and Joann Caro Schieble, but he was raised later on by Clara and Paul Jobs, and hence they called him as “Steven Paul Jobs”. Like his father, Paul was a mechanic, so Jobs used to help him in their garage electronics work and he trained him how to repair the field of electronics, and gradually his keen interest turned into his hobby and guided him to the path of developing and creating something new. Jobs had always been the keeper of a smart and intelligent mind.
In his junior school, he is known for his innovative jokes and outstanding skills of carrying out experiments. Then came the important point of his life, he joined Homestead High School, and he joined Steve Wozniak, his future partner of Apple. Wozniak at that time was serving the University of California, Berkeley. Surprisingly, they both had exceptional knowledge and interests in electronics and in this way they got their common thread.
How Steve Jobs became successful
After schooling, Jobs got admission at Reed College, Portland, Oregon. But he lost interest and after 6 months, dropped college right after 6 months. For the next 18 months, he joined a course of calligraphy. In 1974, Jobs visited Atari where he got a job as video game designer in a firm. But suddenly he left that firm as he found himself into spiritual awareness in India. He was in regular touch with Wozniak however and hence when he was 21, they started Apple Computers in the year of 1976. They supported their entrepreneurship through the family garage Jobs had and sold the scientific calculator Wozniak had.
And the journey started. They started making machines which were smaller, cheaper, user-friendly and innovative. At that time they sold their personal computers for $666.66 each and earned a profit of around $774.00. The company began developing and then Apple Computers had its market value of $1.2 billion by the end of 4 years from the start of the company. Jobs at that time was managing the marketing business of Apple, but then he became the CEO and handed over the marketing business to John Sculley who was the marketing expert of Pepsi-cola. Suddenly, Apple suffered from huge losses due to several flaws in its products. Sculley certainly blamed Jobs for the loss incurred by Apple. So, he resigned from Apple in 1985.
Come back as the CEO of Apple again:
Although NeXT, Inc. and Pixar had great success even then, Apple managed to take over and buy the companies for $429 million. They gave Jobs again for being the CEO of Apple, this time, a whole new management team was there to Apple, and they thought Jobs was the best CEO of Apple. And then? Jobs made Apple come back with a blast again with its stylish, modern products like iMac.
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