Steve Jobs: The Man Who Reduced the Globe Into a Phone
Apple’s sophisticated products like the, MacBook’s and the Ipod’s were not the case in the early 1990’s. There were plain and un-sophisticated Gadgets which could only perform limited functions. The passion and desire of one man to create something new and interesting changed this. Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who were the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. To put it into Simple words, he was the man who reduced the world into a phone. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic and design-driven pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields,
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He was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, who gave their unnamed son up for adoption. As an infant, Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. The family lived in Mountain View, California, within the area that would later become known as Silicon Valley. As a boy, Jobs and his father would work on electronics in the family garage. Paul would show his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby that instilled confidence and mechanical prowess in young Jobs. This was his first step in becoming “The Steve Jobs”. While Jobs was always an intelligent and innovative thinker, his youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. Jobs was bribed to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school—a proposal that his parents declined. A few years later, while Jobs was enrolled at Homestead High School (1971), he was introduced to his future partner, Steve Wozniak, through a friend of Wozniak 's. Wozniak was attending the University of California, Berkeley, at the time. In 1976, when …show more content…
In 2003, he was called back by Apple as a result of their continuous failure in the market. Jobs were very passionate about Apple. Therefore he would spend nights and days working. He paid himself an annual salary of 10 dollars. His hard work finally paid off. In 2005, the first iPhone was released by Apple. The phone reaped huge profits and success. In succession, Ipads, Ipods and macbooks were released which also achieved the milestone. Apple went on to become one of the most successful companies in the world. Based on this case study, Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm and confidence. Steve Jobs was so engaged in working and changing the world that success can also be defined as the more you 're actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel. Steve worked very hard therefore success can also be defined as the quote said Thomas Edison; Success is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Expertise is developed not born. The development of genuine expertise requires struggle, sacrifice, and self-assessment. There are no shortcuts. Achieving expertise requires a lot of focus, passion and desire. In this case
Steve Jobs was a college dropouts with no big plans. No one would have guessed that him and two of his friends working in a garage would be the beginning of a revolution in the world of technology. The free enterprise system made it possible for Steve Jobs to revolutionize the world with Apple products.
Jobs had a talent at recognizing other talent. Steve Jobs wasn't a tech person, he didn't know computers, or coding, he knew exactly how to get people to work together and had a vision that no one else had. He got the most value out of people, which speaks for itself. Just look at 2 companies he built... Apple and Pixar
Steve Jobs was born on Feburary 24, 1995 in Green Bay Wisconsin. His biological mother put him up for adaptation, because she could not care for him and give him a good child hood. She requested that her son to be placed with a well-educated family. When Steve Jobs was growing up he Didn’t have any friends so he wandered to neighbors garages looking to learn more about electronics because a lot of them were engineers. Steve jobs liked fiddling with electronics so much that he spent his time after school at the packyard electronics company learning more in depth about how to make electronic devices. Steve jobs had a hard time focusing in class. Until his fourth grade teacher found a way to get him to focus in class it was by bribing him to do his work. That worked so well that the school recommended him to skip fifth grade and go straight to junior high. Steve jobs told his parents he did not like the school that he was going to, and wanted to change schools. Steve Jobs and his parents moved to silicon valley where there was a premiere school for electronics and technology. He found a friend when he was in high school that was a geek just like him, that friend was Stephen Woznick. Stephen Woznic...
Steve Jobs (CEO and chairman of Apple Inc.) was an American entrepreneur and inventor. He was born in February 24, 1955 and founded Apple Inc. with his high school buddy Steve Wozniak in 1976. But later in 1976, when Apple was about to bankrupt he returned to it as advisor and Interim CEO. He made Apple profitable from near bankruptcy by 1998 (Walter Isaacson, 2013). From (1996-2011), he proved himself as one of the best engineering leaders of the world and made Apple the most innovative company of the world.
Steve Jobs was the utmost CEO of all time. In the speech it states, “……… he’s been called a visionary, a creative genius, a rebel, a non-conformist, an original, the greatest CEO ever, the best innovator of all time.” In the article it states, “He was intensely focused when committed, confident enough to take risky leaps, and charismatic enough to enlist legions of employees and customers in the restless pursuit of his aspirations.” Both texts describe the traits of Steve Jobs which made him the greatest CEO of our age. Steve Jobs was an original genius he had a significant and unique imagination. It’s one thing to envision your own company broadening, but it’s another thing to envision that your company’s services and products will change people lives for the better, the way we communicate and work. Jobs built his company thinking that Apple’s products and services would change the
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 is San Francisco, California and was given up for adoption. As a boy, he worked with his dad on electronics in their garage. He enjoyed this hobby because it allowed him to take apart and reconstruct electronics. At the age of thirteen, he met Stephen Wozniak, an electronic whiz kid. In 1975, when they were both 20 years old, they decided to set up shop in Steve Parent’s garage in which they developed the prototype of the Apple I Computer. In order to raise the $1350 that they needed to start the company, they decided to part ways with things that meant a great deal to them. For Jobs it was his Volkswagen microbus, and for Steve Wozniak, his Hewlett-Packard calculator Two years later, they introduced
It was Steve Jobs who made Apple leave the garage and make leaps and bounds in the world of technology. Steve Wozniak made the first prototype, but it was Jobs who “saw the potential” in his computer and persuaded Wozniak to sell it (Peterson 106). Even though that first computer saw very little success, Jobs knew that Apple had potential and so released the Apple II. From the beginning Jobs knew what the consumers wanted, and where computers were going to take the world; he had a vision of the opportunities in technology and saw that Apple needed to move in a different direction. In 1984, one year before he left, Jobs finished the Macintosh computer system. He was pushed from his original computer design project, “the Lisa”, and then raced to release the Mac first, but the Lisa was released to the public first. Although the Lisa came out first, the Mac “[became] synonymous with Apple, mark[ing] a…revolution in…personal computing,” (Peterson 106).
From being a college drop out to a wealthy entrepreneur, Steve Jobs was a famous inventor and CEO of one of the largest technology companies of the 21st century, Apple Inc. Jobs was a computer smart inventor who knew how to put his brains to good use but under the constraints of a boss there were limits put on his imagination. Being that he lived in a country of free enterprise, Jobs was able to go off and start his own business. The free enterprise system allows producers and consumers to make their own economic decisions. Where you want to work, what you want to sell, or what you want to buy for example.
“The people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was an incredible businessman and the entrepreneur of Apple. Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. His birth parents were Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali but he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (Pollack/Belviso) Paul and Clara also adopted a girl named Patti Jobs. His birth parents also had another girl, Mona Simpson. Steve grew up in Plainview, California, which later would be known as Silicon Valley.
With his unique love for technology, Steve Jobs changed the world with his revolutionary innovations, developments, and extremely successful companies. He made communication faster, people’s lives easier, and invented many famous products. Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California (Ed. Sheila Dow and Jaime E. Noce). Throughout his high school career, Jobs loved electronics. He was constantly wiring the house with speakers or building frequency counters with his Hewlett-Packard Explorers Club, a group of students who met weekly to learn about what HP was working on. One day the club members took a trip to see firsthand at what HP was developing at the time. That was the day Jobs saw his very first desktop computer (Walter Isaacson 16-17).
Although Steve and Bill are competitors, there are similarities between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Both of them are the most successful CEO’s in the world. Though they were college dropouts, but they still achieved a lot of success in their own way. Steve was a very innovative man. As the English proverb goes by “ Have no fear of perfection - you will never reach it.” by Salvador Dali. No matter how many times he failed, he could develop things from his own idea and turn them into a successful product. In 1979 Apple’s first product was introduced, people like it very much because of its simplicity and innovative ideas. Later on in year 1980, the company showed a tremendous performance, where its share rose by 32% (Messa, 1998). Similarly, Bill Gates was also like that, but just that Steve was in a company which makes hardware prod...
Is success a stroke of luck? Are successful people born to be successful? It makes us wonder when harsh condition, circumstances or environment create factors for a person to success. Sometimes failure can be productive, it can be the push we need to move forward in life. The person I want to talk about is a hero who gave a large impact and changed the way we live. He also contributed to the society by his inventions. His name is Steve Jobs and he is the person I want to call a hero. Jobs’ large legacy resulted from a few outstanding strengths that many called it genius and he knew how to deal with problems in smart way.
Steve Jobs’ was an effective leader by being truthful and letting his team know exactly what he wanted. Steve Jobs’ push others to do things they thought they could not do. Steve Jobs’ was a leader that would get in there and do the job himself if need be and others know they could count on him.
In 1976, Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer with his friend Wozniak in the garage of Job’s parents. In 1984, Jobs introduced the Macintosh to the world. It was a very innovative and good product but sales were not strong. Apple’s board wanted to Jobs to step down from his position. In 1985, Steve Jobs founded NeXT Inc. Steve was able to create technologically advanced product but the cost was too high to be successful. Company made first profit after 10 years of operation. In 1997, NeXT Inc was acquired by Apple Inc. In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group. In 1995, the first film, Toy Story, came out. It was a big success and Pixar became one of the biggest animations producing company in the market. Jobs had opportunity to return to Apple, after Apple decided to purchase NeXT Inc. After Jobs returned to Apple, He started to invent new product. iMac was introduced to market and Jobs became permanent CEO of Apple. Apple started to expand their expertise under Jobs guidance. Apple started to introduce digital appliances like iPod, portable music player. In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone, the very first multi-touch display cellphone. iPod and iPhone completely changed world. These inventions were not only a better product but also new way...
Interesting facts about entrepreneur Steve Jobs. One is that he was put up for adoption at birth because the parents of Joanne, his biological mother, objected her relationship with John, his biological father. Therefore, Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Steve also was a drop out of Reed College after six months and used the next 18 months to spend time in creative classes. Even growing up Paul taught Steve how to work as a mechanic and a carpenter. Paul taught him electronics and how to work with his hands. Paul also demonstrated how to take ...