Chairman, CEO Apple Computers

Current Net Worth: $5.5 Billion

Personal Facts
Born February 24,1955 in San Francisco, CA. Adopted at birth. Grew up in the Silicon Valley. Attended Hewlett-Packard lectures after school. He was bold to ask William Hewlett . Worked with Steve Wozniak in the summer. Jobs at Age 14

More Personal Facts

Attended Reed College after high school. Dropped out after one semester. Continued auditing courses in classes he liked. Did part-time job at Atari to finance a trip to India for studying Eastern Culture and Religion

The Start of Apple

Personal computer Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak ventured into a new arena of building personal computers Woz, the engineer, and Jobs, the market visionary. Had to make a capital base somehow. Jobs had to use his parents garage.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

The Apple Series

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak released the Apple I to start the PC revolution. The Apple Series includes: I, II, III, and Lisa.
Apple III Apple I

LISA Apple II

The Take Off

Apples sales and shine began to wear off. Marketing flawed. Change of tactics. Jobs appointed John Sculley to be the CEO. January 24, 1984 Jobs introduced the Macintosh to Apple shareholders. The 1984 Super Bowl commercial let the world in on what Apple was up to.

From Apple to NeXT

Jobs left Apple due to power issues. He pursuit his interests in computing and graphical design. He then founded NeXT. NeXT was a computer platform development company.

Jobs introducing the NeXT company

Steve job Returns

Jobs left Apple due to power issues. He pursuit his interests in computing and graphical design. He then founded NeXT. NeXT was a computer platform development company. Sales issues and wrong focus Focus changed from hardware to software
Jobs introducing the NeXT company

Pixar was bought by steve in 1986 First computer animated film Three films contract from Disney. Toy story was an instant hit in 1995 Sold to Disney for stock worth about $7.4 billion

Steve Jobs with Disneys CEO Robert Iger

Macintosh Project
From the Original Mac 1984

iMac

On the iPod and iTunes

iTunes

iPod

iPhone

Phones were broken in Jobs eyes until the iPhone. The iPhone enhanced the phone industry. It is very technologically advanced.

Ipad
Breakthrough technology Combination of Computer, telephone, Internet, Entertainment Touchscreen, lightweight

Honors
National Medal of Technology from President Ronald Reagan in 1985 with Steve Wozniak (the first people to ever receive the honor). Received Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category "Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under" in 1987. Stanford Commencement Speaker in 2005 Named the most powerful person in business by Fortune Magazine on November 27, 2007. Inducted into the California Hall of Fame by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on December 5, 2007.

According to Others
Never a powerhouse in terms of sales. Great innovator and creative. Small percentage of P.C market. Positive outlook on comments. Jobs as Genius. Jobs as Creep.

Interesting Facts

Apple may have never existed if Hewlett-Packard had been on the ball. After developing the circuit board that would become the heart of the Apple I, Steve Wozniak offered it to Hewlett-Packard, who turned it down saying that it wasnt a salable product. To generate the $1,350 in capital they used to start Apple, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen microbus, and Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard calculator. In 1976, Steve Jobs was working in a community type farm in Oregon and that inspired him to name the company Apple Computers.

Quote
We started out to get a computer in the hands of everyday people, and we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. - Steve Jobs

His Legacy