Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur, inventor, and industrial designer who co-founded Apple Inc. He was born in 1955 in San Francisco, California and dropped out of Reed College in 1972. Along with Steve Wozniak, Jobs helped pioneer the personal computer revolution with the launch of the Apple II in 1977, which sold $2.7 million in its first year. As CEO of Apple, Jobs helped transform the company into a world leader in personal computer sales and popularized products like the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. He passed away in 2011 at the age of 56.
4. BIODATA
Full name
Born
Steven Paul Jobs
24
th
February 1955
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died 5
th
October 2011 (aged 56)
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Education Homestead High School
Occupation ?Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple
Inc.
?Primary investor and CEO of Pixar
?Founder and CEO of NeXT
Known for Pioneer of the personal computer
revolution with Steve Wozniak
Board member of ?The Walt Disney Company
[1]
Apple Inc.
Spouse Laurene Powell
( his death 2011)
Children 4
6. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
?Jobs attended Reed College in 1972
before dropping out , and decided to
travel through India in 1974 seeking
enlightenment and studying Zen
Buddhism.
8. ? Jobs had realized there was a huge gap in the computer
market.
? At that time almost all computers were mainframes.
? They were so large that one could fill a room, and so costly
that individuals could not afford to buy them.
? Jobs and Wozniak redesigned their computer, with the idea
of selling it to individual users.
? The Apple II went to market in 1977, with impressive first
year sales of $2.7 million. The company's sales grew to $200
million within three years.
? This was one of the most phenomenal cases of corporate
growth in U.S. history.
? Jobs and Wozniak had opened an entirely new market¡ª
personal computers.
? Personal computers began an entirely new way of
processing information.