Steve Jobs Presentation (1)

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Click icon to add picture Steven Paul
Jobs
24. Feb 1955
­ 5. Oct 2011
Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco. Adopted at birth by Paul
Reinhold Jobs (1922­1993) and Clara Jobs (1924­1986). He frequented
afterschool lectures at the HewlettPackard Company in Palo Alto,
California, and was later hired there, working with Steve Wozniak as a
summer employee. Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs
enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out
after only one semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, while
sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food
money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple.
Jobs later said, "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy
course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or
proportionally spaced fonts.,, In 1974, Jobs took a job as a technician at
Atari, Inc. He traveled to India in the summer of 1974. Jobs left India
after staying for seven months, with his head shaved and wearing
traditional Indian clothing. Jobs returned to Atari and was assigned to
create a circuit board for the game Breakout.
Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in 1971, when their mutual friend,
Bill Fernandez, introduced 21yearold Wozniak to 16yearold
Jobs. In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs,
Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple computer in the
garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it. In 1983, Jobs lured
John Sculley away from PepsiCola to serve as Apple's CEO,
asking, "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life,
or do you want to come with me and change the world?,, The
Apple board of directors instructed Sculley to "contain" Jobs and
limit his ability to launch expensive forays into untested products.
Sculley learned that Jobs--believing Sculley to be "bad for
Apple" and the wrong person to lead the company--had been
attempting to organize a boardroom coup, and on May 24, 1985,
he called a board meeting to resolve the matter. Apple's board of
directors sided with Sculley and removed Jobs from his
managerial duties as head of the Macintosh division. Jobs
resigned from Apple five months later and founded NeXT Inc.
the same year.
In a speech Jobs gave at Stanford University in 2005, he said
being fired from Apple was the best thing that could have
happened to him; "The heaviness of being successful was
replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure
about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative
periods of my life." And he added, "I'm pretty sure none of this
would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was
awfultasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.,,
NeXT workstations were first released in 1990. The revised,
secondgeneration NeXT cube was released in 1990, also. In
1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT. The deal was
finalized in late 1996, bringing Jobs back to the company he co
founded. In August 2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but
remained with the company as chairman of the company's board.
Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5,
2011.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.htm
In a speech Jobs
gave at Stanford
University in
2005, he also
said that to
dropout from this
school, it was one
of the best things
that happened to
him!
References: Wikipedia.com
Martin Koulen TEP11
2011