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