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Founder of Apple Inc.
G.Thiruja
Grade-10
T/Nilaveli Kaileshwara Collage

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Contents
Steve Jobs Biography ..............................................................................3
Early Life...............................................................................................3
Steve Jobs in India................................................................................4
Steve Jobs and Apple............................................................................4
Life After Apple ....................................................................................5
Return to Apple....................................................................................6
Wealth..................................................................................................7
Steve Jobs Quotes...................................................................................7
Honors and awards.................................................................................9

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Steve Jobs Biography
Steven Paul Jobs – (Feb 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)
Steve Jobs was an American businessman and inventor who played a key role in
the success of Apple computers and the development of revolutionary new
technology such as the iPod, iPad and MacBook.
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn‟t matter to me … Going to bed at night
saying we‟ve done something wonderful… that‟s what matters to me.”
– Steve Jobs as quoted in The Wall Street Journal (Summer 1993).
Early Life
Steven Jobs was born in San Francisco, 1955, to two university students Joanne
Schieble and Syrian born John Jandali. They were both unmarried at the time, and
Steven was given up for adoption.

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Steven was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, whom he always considered to be his
real parents. Steven‟s father Paul encouraged him to experiment with electronics in
their garage. This led to a life long interest in electronics and design.
Steve Jobs attended a local school in California and later enrolled at Reed College,
Portland, Oregon. His education was characterised by excellent test results and
potential. But, he struggled with formal education and his teachers reported he was
a handful to teach.
At Reed College he attended a calligraphy course which fascinated him. He later
said this course was instrumental in Apple‟s multiple typefaces and proportionally
spaced fonts.
Steve Jobs in India
In 1974, Jobs travelled with Daniel Kottke to India in search of spiritual
enlightenment. They travelled to the Ashram of Neem Karoli Baba in Kainchi.
During his several months in India he became aware of Buddhist and Eastern
spiritual philosophy. At this time he also experimented with psychedelic drugs; he
later commented that these counter-culture experiences were instrumental in giving
him a wider perspective on life and business.
“Bill Gates„d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram
when he was younger.” – Steve Jobs, The New York Times, Creating Jobs, 1997
Job‟s first real computer job came working for Atari computers. During his time at
Atari, Jobs came to know Steve Wozniak well. Jobs greatly admired this computer
technician, whom he had first met in 1971.
Steve Jobs and Apple
In 1976, Wozniak invented the first Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak and Ronald
Wayne then set up Apple computers. In the very beginning Apple computers were
sold from Jobs parents‟ garage.
Over the next few years, Apple computers expanded rapidly as the market for
home computers began to become increasingly significant.

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In 1984, Jobs designed the first Macintosh. It was the first commercially successful
home computer to use a graphical user interface (based on Xerox Parc‟s mouse
driver interface.) This was an important milestone in home computing and the
principle has become key in later home computers.
Despite the many innovative sucesses of Jobs at Apple, there was increased friction
between Jobs and other workers at Apple. In 1985, removed from his managerial
duties, Jobs resigned and left Apple. He later looked back on this incident and said
that getting fired from Apple was one of the best things that happened to him – it
helped him regain a sense of innovation and freedom, he couldn‟t find working in
big company.
Life After Apple
On leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT computers. This was never particularly
successful, failing to gain mass sales. However, in the 1990s, NeXT software was
used as a framework in WebObjects used in Apple Store and iTunes store. In 1996,
Apple bought NeXT for $429 million.
Much more successful was Job‟s foray into Pixar – a computer graphic film
production company. Disney contracted Pixar to create films such as Toy Story, A
Bug‟s Life and Finding Nemo. These animation movies were highly successful and
profitable. This earn jobs significant respect and success.
In 1996, the purchase of NeXT bought Jobs back into Apple. He was given post of
chief executive. At the time, Apple had fallen way behind rivals such as Microsoft.
Apple were struggling to even make profits.

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Return to Apple
Jobs launched Apple on a new direction. With a certain degree of ruthlessness,
some projects were summarily ended. Instead, Jobs promoted the development of a
new wave of products which focused on accessibility, appealing design and
innovate features.
The iPod was a revolutionary product in that it built on existing portable music
devices and set the standard for portable digital music played. In 2008, iTunes
became the second biggest music retailer in US, with over 6 billion song
downloads and over 200 million iPods sold.
In 2007, Apple successfully entered the mobile phone market, with the iPhone.
This used features of the iPod to offer a multi-functional and touch screen device
to become one of best selling electronic products.
Apple has been rated No.1 in America‟s most admired companies. Jobs
management has been described as inspirational, although c-workers also state,
Jobs could be a hard task master and was temperamental. NeXT Cofounder Dan‟l
Lewin was quoted in Fortune as saying of that period, “The highs were
unbelievable … But the lows were unimaginable”
“My job is not to be easy on people. My jobs is to take these great people we have and to
push them and make them even better.” – All About Steve Jobs
Under Jobs, Apple managed to overtake Microsoft in terms of share capitalization.
Apple also gained a pre-eminent reputation for the development and introduction
of ground breaking technology. Interview in 2007, Jobs said
There‟s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. „I skate to where the puck is going
to be, not where it has been.‟ And we‟ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the
very very beginning. And we always will.”
Despite, growing ill-health, Jobs continued working at Apple until August 2011,
when he resigned.

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Wealth
“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and
over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn‟t that important because I never did it for
the money.”– Steve Jobs
Jobs earned only $1million as CEO of Apple. But, share options from Apple and
Disney gave him an estimated fortune of $8.3billion
In 1991, he married Laurenne Powell, together they had three children and lived in
Palo Alto, California.
Steve Jobs died in 2011 at the age of 56.
Steve Jobs Quotes

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 “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them
quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
 “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn‟t matter to me … Going to bed at
night saying we‟ve done something wonderful… that‟s what matters to me.” –
Steve Jobs as quoted in The Wall Street Journal (Summer 1993).
 “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren‟t used to an environment where
excellence is expected.”
 “I want to put a ding in the universe.”
 "We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work
on your computer when you want to turn your brain on."- Interview in
Macworld magazine (February 2004)
 “I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was
24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn‟t that important because
I never did it for the money.”
 “So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around,
just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with
people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different
people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just
explore things.” – CNNMoney
 “We don‟t get a chance to do that many things, and everyone should be really
excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know?
And we‟ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It
better be worth it.” – Fortune

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Honors and awards
 2013: Posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend.[223]
 2012: Grammy Trustees Award, an award for those who have influenced the
music industry in areas unrelated to performance.[224]
 2007: Jobs was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The
California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.[225]
 2007: Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune
magazine.[226]
 1989: '‟Entrepreneur of the Decade'‟ by Inc. magazine[227]
 1987: Jefferson Award for Public Service[228]
 1985: National Medal of Technology (with Steve Wozniak)[229]

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