Steve Jobs was born in California in 1955. He was put up for adoption and was raised by his very supportive adoptive parents (Hurley-Hansen & Giannantonio, 2013). Receiving the majority of his education in California, Steve Jobs graduated from high school and continued on to college. Attending college briefly he left after obtaining a job working for Atari, a very popular gaming company at the time. Disenchanted with his job at Atari he left and spent a considerable amount of time traveling in India. Returning from India, Jobs and a friend, Steven Wozniak founded the Apple Computer Inc. in his parent’s garage and released the Apple I in 1976 (Yukari & Fowler, 2011). An innovator and technical genius, Jobs and Wozniak released the Apple …show more content…
Many believe that his greatest accomplishments were yet to come. Hurley-Hansen & Giannantonio (2013) state “Steve Jobs personal success and business story reflect the American dream” (para.1). Experiencing highs and lows in the business community, Jobs followed his spirit and dreams and did not let setbacks stop him from continuing. Beginning in the garage of his parent’s home, he persevered until he became the CEO of one of the most successful computer companies in the world, Apple Computer. The entrepreneurial spirit carried him through the firing and rehiring at his own company, starting and selling other companies, and transitioning easily between industries and technologies (Hurley-Hansen & Giannantonio, 2013). A key item to note about Jobs is his innovativeness, both in the products he designed and the way he wove everyday life events, and the success and failures encountered, into living a successful and fulfilling …show more content…
Instead of asking customers what features they thought they might like to have in a mobile phone, Steve Jobs was the market researcher for Apple. His innovative thought process and realizing he was creating a product that people would want, allowed him to ask himself every morning what he wanted in the current device in design (Gobble, 2012). Arriving at the Apple office he would pass along his idea and the engineers were then expected to incorporate the idea into the device. Instead of creating brand new products, Jobs and Apple excelled at taking half conceived ideas and rebuilding them into products that are done properly and in a way the consumer wants (Gobble,
Steve Jobs and his friend Wozniak started to create their very first computer, and it came out a lot better than what they thought it was going to be. With very little education, the first computer that came out was extraordinary. “It was the first single-board computer with built-in circuitry allowing for direct video interface, along with a central ROM, which allowed it to load programs from an external source” (“Steve P. Jobs”). Without the education that most people get, for someone who dropped out of college, Jobs created such a powerful computer without the knowledge that most people have. Jobs computer that he created along with his friend was so astonishing a second computer came out. “A year later, the Apple II was launched with a simple, compact design like the Apple I, plus a color monitor” (“Steve Paul Jobs”). The first computer that Jobs created was excellent enough to create a second one, which was also a superior computer. Even though Jobs dropped out of college, he was still intelligent enough to create one of the biggest companies in the world. Apple incorporations was going strong until one day the company decided to let Steve Jobs go,...
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Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali. His father was born in a traditional Muslim household, and was raised in Syria whose father was a self made millionaire with no education. Jandali met Steve’s Mother during college as both were students at the University of Wisconsin. His father, Jandali, was a Syrian political science professo whith experience of rebelling and being arrested for his beliefs,
On February 24th, in San Francisco California Steve Jobs was born to Joanne Schieble and Abdul Fattah Jabali. Joanne was a speech therapist and Abdul Fattah was a political science professor of Syrian decent (Isaacson 2011). His mother was raised in Wisconsin in a family of German Decent and his father came from a prominent and rich family Syrian family with 9 children. His mother was a strict Muslim housewife and there was a lot of importance put on education in the house. Not long after his birth Steve, a nameless baby still, was given up for adoption. Clara and Paul Jobs who named him Steven Paul Jobs adopted him. Many say Steve’s father Paul lit the fire of interest in electronics in Steve’s mind and often encouraged him to experiment with these things. Job’s adopted father was not a college graduate and had grown up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin with an alcoholic father. His mother was a daughter of Armenian immigrants who had just fled the Turks and come to America. They were married within ten days of meeting each other. They had a happy marriage but due to having an ectopic pregnancy in the past, Clara was unable to conceive. (Isaacson 2011). So in 1955 they were looking to adopt. They were blessed with Steve.
Steve Jobs was a person with prodigious creativity and astonishing ideas about what the future should look like. He was a renowned innovator who reshaped entire industries by his intellectual mind, innovative ideas and unmatchable will-power, that gave consumers not only what they desired, but what they didn’t yet think they desired.
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 in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955. His parents were Abdulfattah John Jandali and Joanne Simpson. They put him up for adoption later that year without even naming him. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. They named him Steven Paul Jobs. When Jobs was a toddler, the family moved to Santa Clara County, now known as Silicon Valley. (“Steve Jobs Long Bio”).
Steve Jobs was a big troublemaker in his early years and was very intuitive. First, Steve was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955. Next, he was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs when he was a baby. After that, he grew up in Mountain View, California in South San Francisco. Finally, Steve Jobs had an adopted
Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. was born February 24, 1995, and died of cancer on October 5, 2011. Apple Inc., and considered a niche player for much of its history, is the most valuable company in the world by market capitalization as of this writing. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of microcomputer revolution of the 1970s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Jobs made a vast amount of accomplishment in technology which has improved many people’s lives across the nation, he was an exemplary leader, and the utmost CEO ever. Steve Jobs changed several industries in so many ways. According to the article it states, “Steve Jobs was certainly a willful and driven leader,
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...
“It had changed the high-tech industry, particularly Apple. By the end of 2005, Apple Computer had sold more than 42million iPods at prices ranging from $99 to $599.”( Steven Levy pg. 3). The iPod was a complete success by the innovation of storing large quantities of music into such a tiny gadget. This was a device that devastated the population with a great jump in technology. People worldwide adored the ability to carry this small iPod around with the greatest of ease. Society has forever changed because of the iPod. The iPod has changed how most purchase music too. With the interlocking combination of iTunes, Steve Jobs was able to create such multi-accessible information with the ability to organize our music, create preferences, mix/mash variety, and find some music not normally found in stores. Steve Jobs was able to successfully create this “iPod” to only further our progress in
...t cell phones. Then, in 2010 Jobs outdid himself by introducing the iPad. It was a perfect gadget for all gamers, geeks, or people who just wanted this amazing technology at their fingertips. The iPad had a significantly larger screen than the iPhone and was capable of holding more data.
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...
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).
Steve Jobs has significantly impacted today’s society and many industries. Steve Jobs was born in February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco California. He was adopted at birth by Paul Jobs (1922 -1993) and Clara Jobs (1924 ` 1986). Jobs went through rocky days in elementary school. Despite his rough time in elementary school, Steve was able to skip couple of grades. Steve enrolled at Reed College in Oregon but he dropped out after six month. Steve studied creative classes, including calligraphy.