Essay On Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs, or more commonly known as Steve Jobs, was an American businessman, entrepreneur, inventor, and industrial designer. Jobs was also known as a genius of the modern age. He revolutionized computers, music, motion picture and the telephone. He introduced us to a whole new different world of technology that we use on a daily basis nowadays. Jobs invented such things as the first IPhone, the IPad, and Macintosh. His journey to becoming successful in life, started when he was born.

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 to an unwed graduate couple, Joanne Schieble and John Jandali. He was put up for adoption and was adopted shortly after birth by Paul and Clara Jobs, a non high school graduate and a non college graduate.

As stated by Fernandez, himself, on the documentary, “Steve Jobs: One Last Thing,” he decided to introduce Jobs and Wozniak because he knew they both were really into electronics and he believed, in his own words, “that they would become electronic buddies.” Once Jobs and Wozniak first met, they instantly clicked. The documentary also commented that they initially used their skills for phone jacking to make free phone calls. Eventually, the duo began to create computers, such as Apple I and Apple II, in their’ parents’ garage, which was also where Apple started from in in 1976, as stated on the video, “Steve Jobs - Mini Biography.” That same year, in 1976, Jobs and Wozniak partnered with Ronald Wayne, co-founder of Apple Computer and electronics industry worker , to sell Apple Computers from their parents’ garage. After some time past, Wayne stated in the documentary, that he walked away from Jobs and Wozniak’ s business because he knew that they would eventually become a handful that he would not want to deal with. Jobs and Wozniak continued with their business until December 12, 1980 when Apple went

Even when Jobs was pushed away from a job that he started, he got up and tried again. Even when he knew that dropping out of college was going to cost him, he followed his heart to something that he loved doing. I believe Steve Jobs lived his life to the fullest doing the things he loved most. At the end of his “Stanford Commencement Speech,” Steve Jobs recited the phrase, “Stay hungry, Stay foolish.” “Stay Hungry,” meaning to want more and more and, “Stay foolish,” meaning to follow your heart no matter what people say. And both put together, could mean a variety of things, such as, to be curious and to make unconventional decisions, or to achieve the impossible. I believe this is what Steve Jobs was all about. To being different and having the guts to put his work out there in the world to which changed our lives