Steve Jobs: The Ipodfather: Anupam Batra Neeraj Bisht
Steve Jobs: The Ipodfather: Anupam Batra Neeraj Bisht
Steve Jobs: The Ipodfather: Anupam Batra Neeraj Bisht
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Early life
Born on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco, California Full Name: Steven Paul Jobs Put up for adoption a week after birth Adopted by Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara Jobs Adoption was finalized under the condition that Steven would attend college.
Education
Skipped 5th grade , Took his first electronics class in high school After school, attended lectures at the HewlettPackard company where he met Steve Wonzniak during work 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
In 1974, Jobs took a job as a technician at Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California
Jobs was assigned to create a circuit board for the arcade video game Breakout.
Jobs attended meetings at Wozniaks Homebrew Computer Club Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in building computers
Apple
Born on April 1st, 1976 Apple I designed and prototype built First single board computer with built-in video interface Apple II designed in the following year In 1976, Jobs looked to hire a public relations agency to help advertise
Smooth Sailing
Most investors turned Apple down Retired Intel executive Mike Markkul decided to invest Became publicly traded company in 1980,Launched LISA in 1983 Unsuccessful due to its few software programs and high price Very popular sold approximately 70,000 Macs in the first 100 days
The Downfall
Sales 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
Still Looking Up
After taking time off, Jobs wanted to get back to Apple and his love for computers. In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital. Founded NeXT Computer in 1989 Company slowly starts going downhill
Pixar
Pixar was Jobs second company Swept the box office with its animated films On January 24th, 2006, Disney bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3 each received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001.