After losing a power struggle with the Apple board of directors in 1985, Steve Jobswent on to
found NeXT, a computer platform development company for the higher ed and business
markets. ... He ultimately resumed his title of CEO and proceeded to bring the company back
from the brink of bankruptcy to profitability.
After high school, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking
direction, he dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18
months dropping in on creative classes at the school. Jobs later recounted
how one course in calligraphy developed his love of typography.
He was the chairman, chief executive officer, and co-founder of Apple Inc.; chairman and
majority shareholder of Pixar; Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer
revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
In 2011, Forbes estimated the majority of Steve Jobs’ net worth at around $6.5 billion to $7
billion from his sale of Pixar to the Walt Disney Company in 2006. However if Jobs had not sold
his Apple shares in 1985, when he left the company he founded and helmed for over a decade,
his net worth would have been a staggering $36 billion.
ive years later, when Steve Jobs reached college age, he told his parents he
wanted to enroll in Reed College — an expensive liberal arts college up in
Oregon. Even though the tuition fees were astronomical for the poor couple, they
had promised their son's biological parents he would get a college education, so
they relented. Steve spent only one semester at Reed, then dropped out, as he
was more interested in eastern philosophy, fruitarian diets, and LSD than in the
classes he took. He moved to a hippie commune in Oregon where his main
activity was cultivating apples.
A few months later, Steve returned to California to look for a job. He was hired at
the young video game maker Atari, and used his wages to make a trip to India
with one of his college friends, in order to 'seek enlightenment'. He came back a
little disillusioned and started to take interest in his friend Woz's new activities.
Steve aimed at the highest possible standards for his new NeXT machine: he
wanted the best hardware, built in the world's most automated factory, and
running the most advanced software possible. He decided that the computer's
operating system, NeXTSTEP, would be based on UNIX, the most robust system
in the world , used by the military and universities— but that it would also be as
easy to use as a Macintosh,with its own GUI. NeXTSTEP would allow for object
oriented programming, another breakthrough from Xerox PARC, that made
writing software much faster and more reliably. These ambitious plans put off
the release date of the computer — called the NeXT Cube — to October 1988.
Apple Computer. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he andSteve Wozniak started Apple
Computer in the Jobs' family garage. ... Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the
computer industry with Apple by democratizing the technology and making machines smaller,
cheaper, intuitive and accessible to everyday consumers ...
Jobs was a millionaire by the time he was 25, but he was also a perfectionist. That made him
very hard to work with, and in 1985, Jobs was fired from the company he created. It was during
the time that he wasn't working for Apple that Jobs bought what would become Pixar Animation
Studios.
Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor, designer and entrepreneur who
was the co-founder, chief executive and chairman of Apple Computer. Apple's
revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now
seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology. Born in 1955 to two
University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption,
Jobs was smart but directionless, dropping out of college and experimenting
with different pursuits before co-founding Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976.
Jobs left the company in 1985, launching Pixar Animation Studios, then
returned to Apple more than a decade later. Jobs died in 2011 following a long
battle with pancreatic cancer.
Steve Jobs is an entrepreneurial legend. He famously started Apple in a family garage with
co-founder Steve Wozniak in 1976 after dropping out of college. The tech company has a
market capitalization of $870 billion. ... According to Jobs, two things are required to build
a successful company: passion and people. teve Jobs passed away at the age of 56.
Jobs was forced out of Apple after losing a boardroom battle for the company with CEO John
Sculley.
was an American businessman and inventor who played a key role in the success
of Apple computers and the development of revolutionary new technology such
as the iPod, iPad and MacBook.
Jobs sat in on Palladino's calligraphy class at Portland's Reed College, which eventually
inspired the elegance for which Apple computers are renowned, the tech icon recalled in his
famous 2005 commencement address at Stanford University. “It was the first computer with
beautiful typography,” Jobs said
But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh
computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was
the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that
single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or
proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely
that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I
would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal
computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Though he
was one of the world's most famous CEOs, Steve Jobs kept his private
world -- wife and family, illegitimate daughter, mother who gave him
up for adoption, long lost sister -- hidden from public view.
Family: Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California.
His biological parents were two graduate students at the University of
Wisconsin. His father taught political science, while his mother was a speech
therapist. They both decided to give Steve up for adoption; Clara and Paul Jobs
adopted the unnamed baby. His father Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and
machinist, while Clara was an accountant. Jobs grew up in Mountain View,
California, the area that is now known as Silicon Valley.
His biological parents met as 23-year-old students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
They were unmarried when his biological mother, Joanne Schieble, fell pregnant in 1954.
His biological father, Abdulfattah Jandali, was a Syrian Muslim immigrant who later married Ms
Schieble. He has said they did not want to put their baby up for adoption, but his girlfriend’s parents
would not initially allow her to marry an Arab.
Under pressure from her parents and fearing scandal, Ms Schieble travelled to San Francisco to
have the baby. Steven Paul, as his adoptive parents named him, was born on February 24, 1955.
“Without telling me, Joanne upped and left to move to San Francisco to have the baby without
anyone knowing, including me," Mr Jandali, who never met his son, said in August. He described Ms
Schieble’s father as a “tyrant”.
relationship with Steve Jobs in her book Small Fry, published in 2018. In 1980, Lisa
wrote, DNA tests revealed that she and Steve Jobs were a match, and he was required
to begin making paternity payments to her financially struggling mother. Jobs did not
initiate a relationship with his daughter until she was 7 years old. When she was a
teenager, Lisa came to live with her father.
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, 1955, to two university students Joanne
Schieble and Syrian-born John Jandali. They were both unmarried at the time,
and Steven was given up for adoption.
Steven was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, whom he always considered to be his
real parents. Steven’s father, Paul, encouraged him to experiment with
electronics in their garage. This led to a lifelong interest in electronics and design.
In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Steve Wozniak started
Apple Computer in the Jobs’ family garage. They funded their
entrepreneurial venture by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus and
Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak are
credited with revolutionizing the computer industry with Apple by
democratizing the technology and making machines smaller, cheaper,
intuitive and accessible to everyday consumers.
Wozniak conceived of a series of user-friendly personal computers,
and with Jobs in charge of marketing Apple initially marketed the
computers for $666.66 each. The Apple I earned the corporation
around $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple's second
model, the Apple II, the company's sales increased by 700 percent to
$139 million.
In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded company, with a
market value of $1.2 billion by the end of its very first day of trading.
Jobs looked to marketing expert John Sculley of Pepsi-Cola to take
over the role of CEO for Apple.
The next several products from Apple suffered significant design
flaws, however, resulting in recalls and consumer disappointment.
IBM suddenly surpassed Apple in sales, and Apple had to compete
with an IBM/PC-dominated business world.
In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a
piece of a counterculture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. But
despite positive sales and performance superior to IBM's PCs, the
Macintosh was still not IBM-compatible.
Sculley believed Jobs was hurting Apple, and the company's
executives began to phase him out. Not actually having had an official
title with the company he co-founded, Jobs was pushed into a more
marginalized position and thus left Apple in 1985.
NeXT
After leaving Apple in 1985, Jobs began a new hardware and software
enterprise called NeXT, Inc. The company floundered in its attempts
to sell its specialized operating system to mainstream America, and
Apple eventually bought the company in 1996 for $429 million.
Reinventing Apple
In 1997, Jobs returned to his post as Apple's CEO. Just as Jobs
instigated Apple's success in the 1970s, he is credited with
revitalizing the company in the 1990s.
With a new management team, altered stock options and a self-
imposed annual salary of $1 a year, Jobs put Apple back on track.
Jobs’ ingenious products (like the iMac), effective branding campaigns
and stylish designs caught the attention of consumers once again.
In the ensuing years, Apple introduced such revolutionary products as
the Macbook Air, iPod and iPhone, all of which dictated the evolution
of technology. Almost immediately after Apple released a new product,
competitors scrambled to produce comparable technologies.
Apple's quarterly reports improved significantly in 2007: Stocks were
worth $199.99 a share—a record-breaking number at that time — and
the company boasted a staggering $1.58 billion profit, an $18 billion
surplus in the bank and zero debt.
Steve Jobs is an entrepreneurial legend. Jobs’ real venture in the
tech industry began in 1976 when he started Apple Computer with
Steve Wozniak. When Jobs was just 21, he and Steve Wozniak started
Apple Computer in the Jobs' family garage. Jobs and Wozniak are
credited with revolutionizing the computer industry with Apple by
democratizing the technology and making machines smaller, cheaper,
intuitive and accessible to everyday consumers. He is one of the
masterminds behind Apple’s personal computers, and later the iPod,
the iPhone, and the iPad. He became a self-made billionaire even
though he never graduated from college.
In 2008, Apple became the second-biggest music retailer in America
— second only to Walmart, fueled by iTunes and iPod sales. Apple has
also been ranked No. 1 on Fortunemagazine's list of "America's Most
Admired Companies," as well as No. 1 among Fortune 500 companies
for returns to shareholders.
Steve Jobs and Pixar
In 1986, Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas,
which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar's
potential, Jobs initially invested $50 million of his own money in the
company.
The studio went on to produce wildly popular movies such as Toy
Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles; Pixar's films have
collectively netted $4 billion. The studio merged with Walt Disney in
2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's largest shareholder.
