Steve Jobs was born in 1955 and adopted. He dropped out of college but attended lectures at HP, where he met Steve Wozniak. They co-founded Apple in 1976. After some success with the Apple II, Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985. He then founded NeXT which was later acquired by Apple. Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 and led them to success with products like the iMac, iPod, and iPhone. He was also involved with Pixar which Disney acquired. Jobs passed away in 2011 after battling pancreatic cancer.

1. GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING
COLLEGE,BHAVNAGAR
SUBMITTED BY:-
ZADAFIYA VISHAL (110210111064)

2. The Life of Steve Jobs
Nick Adams
Matthew Radke
Stacey McMillin

3. Young Steven Jobs
• Born on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco, California
• Put up for adoption a week after birth
• Adoption was finalized under the condition that Steven would attend
college

4. Education
• Skipped 5th grade
• Took his first electronics
class in high school
• After school, attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard company
where he met Steve Wonzniak during work

5. Education (Cont.)
• 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

6. The Beginning of A Career
• Returned to California in 1974 and was hired as a
technician for Atari
• Attended meetings at
Wozniak’s “Homebrew
Computer Club”
• Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in
building computers

7. Apple
• Born on April 1st, 1976
• Apple I designed and prototype built
• First single board computer with built-in video interface

8. Apple (Cont.)
•Apple II designed in the following year
•Operating System loaded automatically
• Smaller Components & built-in
circuitry
• In 1976, Jobs looked to hire a
public relations agency to help
advertise

9. Smooth Sailing
• Most investors turned Apple down
• Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula decided to invest
• Markkula became chairman
of Apple in May 1977

10. Smooth Sailing (Cont.)
• Became publicly traded company in 1980
• Launched LISA in 1983
• First commercial
computer to use GUI
•Unpopular due to its few software programs and
high price

11. Smooth Sailing (Cont.)
• Macintosh created to compete with PC
• Marketed for friendliness, not just a mindless machine
• Very popular – sold approximately 70,000 Macs in the first 100 days

12. 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

13. Still Looking Up
• After taking time off, Jobs wanted to get back to Apple and his love
for computers
• Decided to start his own
company
• Founded NeXT Computer in 1989

14. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
• NeXT turned a profit for the first time in 1992
• NeXT software needed to be made more reliable and compatible for
consumers
• Company slowly starts going downhill

15. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
• Jobs was criticized for wasting money that belonged to the company
in 1993
• Closed a NeXT factory in that February
• Laid off half of the employees and stopped making computers

16. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
• Jobs had to make drastic decisions
• Microsoft purchased NeXT software
• Microsoft came up with $150 million to stake in Apple
• Saved a dying company.

17. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
• Jobs management style had drastically changed
• Relaxed and was open to suggestions
• Employees commented that Jobs made experimenting with
electronics fun

18. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
• Jobs began looking into alternatives to Object Linking and Embedding
• Created OpenDoc
• Jobs was very serious about this

19. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
• NeXT STEP software was being turned into Mac OS X
• Under Jobs’ guidance the company increased sales
• Introduced the iMac and other new products

20. Still Looking Up (Cont.)
• Jobs held the title of ICEO
• Very influential impact on the Apple company
• By the year 2000, he created even greater advances in new
technology

21. The New Beginning
• In early 2000, Pixar leads animated film industry
• Later that month,
Jobs announced his
return to the CEO
position
• Insisted on keeping his $1 annual salary

22. The New Beginning (Cont.)
• Although his salary was low, the company granted him ten million
shares of Apple stock worth hundreds of millions

23. The New Beginning (Cont.)
• First project as CEO was the G4 Cube
• Was too expensive
and didn’t satisfy a
certain market
• Lasted only twelve
months in Apple’s line-up

24. The New Beginning (Cont.)
• The next step for Steve was his newest operating system, Mac OS X
• The future of Apple

25. The New Beginning (Cont.)
• Apple wanted software to sync up digital devices
• Was turned down by most companies
• Jobs took matters into his own hands and created iLife suite.

26. The New Beginning (Cont.)
• In 2001, Jobs opened Apple retail stores so customers could:
1. Try out computers
2. Test software
3. Meet with salespeople
• This was a large risk but he knew that people would want to buy them

27. Portable Audio Revolution
• Less than a year after iTunes was released, Apple
released the iPod
•Originally only for Mac users
• In July 2002, the new iPod was
available for Windows users as
well
• Sales skyrocketed and 75% of MP3 players are iPods

28. Portable Audio Revolution (Cont.)
• In eight weeks, five million songs were sold on iTunes
• Took over 80% of the legal music downloading market

29. More Successful Changes
• June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch from PowerPC chips to
Intel chips.
• This would conserve
energy on PowerBook
and iBook

30. More Successful Changes (Cont.)
•October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was introduced
•Could play music
videos and TV shows
• Jobs announced the
opening of the iTunes
video store

31. 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

32. Conclusion
• Despite a recent scare with pancreatic cancer, Jobs is back in health
and doing just fine
• Jobs is an influential man who learned from
his failures and gained
maturity from them
• True role model