Biography of Steve Jobs
The legendary Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, is a modern genius. Famous for creating revolutionary products that revolutionized the IT industry. Videos with the presentation of new Apple products became real shows for the whole world.
Biographical facts
- Years of life: 1995 - 2011
- Date of birth: 02/24/1955
- Zodiac sign: Pisces
- Time of birth: 19:15
- Date and time of death: 10/05/2011, 15:00 (source: Wikipedia)
- Place of death: Palo Alto, USA (wiki)
- Height and weight: 1.88 m, 52 kg.
The biography of Steve Jobs is logically divided into several chapters:
- Chapter 1: Early years, personality development;
- Chapter 2: Apple Computers - the creation of the first products for which Steve Jobs became famous;
- Chapter 3: Return to the Wave of Success: NeXT, Pixar;
- Chapter 4: The head of Apple Corporation - the invaluable contribution of a genius to the development of high technologies and their implementation.
How many brilliant solutions the businessman offered to society!
Steve Jobs: biography of his early years
The Jobs managed to become ideal parents for Steve. Over time, the family moved to live in Silicon Valley (Mountain View). Here, in his free time, the boy’s father repaired cars and soon attracted his son to this activity. It was in this garage that Steve Jobs gained his first knowledge of electronics in his youth.
At first, the guy did poorly at school. Fortunately, the teacher noticed the boy’s extraordinary mind and found a way to interest him in his studies. Material rewards for good grades worked - toys, sweets, small money. Steve passed the exams so brilliantly that after the fourth grade he was transferred directly to the sixth.
While still at school, young Jobs met Larry Lang, who got the guy interested in computers. Thanks to this acquaintance, the talented schoolboy had the opportunity to attend the Hewlett-Packard club, where many specialists worked on their personal inventions, helping each other. The time spent here had a huge impact on shaping the worldview of the future head of Apple.
However, what really changed Steve's life was meeting Stephen Wozniak.
Childhood and youth of Steve Jobs (1955-1975)
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. biological parents faced rejection of their union, which is why they decided to give the child up for adoption.
Adoptive parents are Paul and Clara Jobs. They named the child Steven Paul Jobs.
The main condition for adoption is that the baby later receives a higher education.
In order to earn money, his stepfather Paul Reingold Jobs sold old cars. The teenager's hobby of helping his father helped develop his interest in technology and electronics.
early years
Steve Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California, USA, into a family of University of Wisconsin graduates who gave up their unnamed son for adoption. In infancy, the boy ended up in the family of Clara and Paul Jobs, who gave him his name. Clara was an accounting major and Paul was a US Coast Guard veteran who worked as a machinist. The family lived in Mountain View, California. When Steve was still a boy, Paul taught his son how to disassemble and reassemble electrical appliances, and this hobby gave the child self-confidence, strong will and ease in handling electronics.
Jobs Jr., who always had a sharp mind and progressive views, found school education difficult. In elementary school, Steve was a big mischief-maker, and in the fourth grade, his teacher only managed to force the boy to study by cunning. A few years later, upon entering Homestead High School (in 1971), he met his future partner, Steve Wozniak.
Education: school and college
At school, the future inventor was irritated by the formalism of classes. One of the teachers helped change the situation - she gave him a monetary reward for his achievements and merits. The boy became interested in his studies and began to make unprecedented progress.
The first employer was Hewlett-Packard, where Jobs worked as a schoolboy. The boy's age at that time was 13 years . Then he met Steve Wozniak. They were brought together by a common idea - creating a personal computer for the average person.
Steve Jobs and his partner released the first commercially successful “project” - “Blue Box” , which was actually illegal: the device allowed free calls around the world.
After visits from the police, Steve Jobs, as one of the creators of the project, shut it down without losing interest in working with Wozniak.
Jobs's attempt to get a higher education
At the age of 17, Steve Jobs got the opportunity to attend Reed College in Portland. How did Steve Jobs study in college? The process seemed pointless.
In his youth, Jobs realized that he was spending the fortune that his parents had accumulated over their entire lives, so he decided to resign.
Having received the right to go only to areas of interest, young Steve Jobs began to attend a calligraphy course . Subsequently, this knowledge allowed him to develop a unique PC typography, the likes of which had never been produced before.
The decision to expel was the best decision Steve made in his life.
In his youth, the genius lives poorly - he sleeps on the floor of his friends, sells soda bottles, and then works as a laboratory assistant at the psychology department. The need to survive and the passionate desire to find one’s own path determined the future success of the young talent.
Carier start
In 1974, Jobs got a job at Atari, where Wozniak invited him. The company is developing the first mass games - such as the arcade Pong. In 1975, Steve begins work on the circuitry for the video game Breakout. The young man's task was to reduce the number of chips on the board. He was to be paid $100 to remove each microprocessor.
Jobs undertook to complete the job in just 4 days, although it usually took several months. However, the computer genius completed the task on time and, together with Wozniak, divided the amount of $700 between them. Having received a decent amount for that time, he quits his job at Atari.
Building an Apple Computer
In 1975, Wozniak showed a friend a computer he had made with his own hands and convinced him to start producing them for sale. In 1976, engineer Fernandez and draftsman Ronald Wayne joined them. In early April, Jobs and Wozniak create Apple. To do this, the first sells a bus, the second sells a programmable calculator. The amount with which the megacorporation started was only $1,300.
In addition to assembling computers, the friends were engaged in selling equipment for hacking telephone networks. A special device with a sound source with a frequency of 2600 Hz allowed free long-distance calls. With the help of this invention, an amount was earned that was enough to create the first batch of computers.
First profit
Jobs and Wozniak's first PC retailed for $666.66. The company's first customer was a local electronics store. Order sizes are only 50 computers. Moreover, the computers had to be delivered completely ready for work.
There was not enough money for the first batch of parts and assembly. Therefore, all of Jobs' friends were involved in the creation of Apple I. The assembly location was the parent's garage. Here Steve first showed himself to be a good leader. And the result of the work was 50 models of portable computers, which became the founders of entire generations of future Macs.
The company's second PC, the Apple II, came out almost simultaneously with the IBM model. And in order to create worthy competition, Jobs launched an advertising campaign and created beautiful packaging with a logo for his computer. The equipment sold well, and by 1980 Steve became a millionaire. Although his difficult character leads to scandals within the company.
Success story, career
The future businessman was looking for spiritual enlightenment; he found his own vector in development somewhere between science and art.
An autobiography told to journalist W. Isaacson tells that his main motivation was the thought of the finitude of life. This inspired bold decisions and the creation of new products. The empire of i-devices and a new way of thinking is exactly what the figure invented.
Working at Atari
After Steve Jobs said goodbye to college, the guy returns to where he lived before - to his home. Steve Jobs, as an avid adventurer, was going to travel around India, for which he needed income.
The ad “Have fun and make money” became a “red button” - Steven came to the employer and said that he would not go anywhere until he got a job.
Atari, a video game manufacturer, is the second place where Steve worked.
Nolan Bushnell, the company's founder, observed the scene. Despite the extraordinary appearance of a hippie, Steven Jobs impressed with the breadth of his horizons, unconventional thinking, and incredible desire to find new technological solutions.
After several months of work, the guy left his job and went to travel. Upon his return, he returns to Atari, where he works until its ruin.
Who is Steve Jobs?
Steve was born in 1955, at the end of winter, on February 24th. Just seven days after birth, the mother abandoned the child and handed him over to the care of the state. However, the boy did not stay on such support for long and was soon adopted by the spouses Paul and Clara Jobs. His new parents gave him not only a name, but also a good, normal childhood.
From childhood, the child began to surprise his parents and teachers with rather unconventional thinking. This led him to meet the president of the famous Hewlett-Packard company, William Hewletty. The young talent needed some important and inaccessible parts for a certain device. The President not only provided what was required, but even invited him to a summer internship with him, having become interested in the abilities of a very young man.
There, life brought Steve together with a man who later became one of the most important in his life, Stephen Wozniak
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When his schooling came to an end, Steve entered Portland College of Reath. But studying there could not force the young genius to stay there for a long time. After attending lectures for some more time, the young man goes back to California, where he soon finds a job in a company producing then-ubiquitous video games under the Atari logo.
Yet the most important event that had a direct impact on the formation of Jobs as a world-famous computer genius was Wozniak’s adaptation. He managed to assemble a personal computer for himself, and when Jobs saw it, he got the idea of making them for sale, which he soon persuaded the owner of the miracle machine to do.
Creation of Apple
The future head of Apple Steve Jobs , and Steve's friend - his namesake with the surname Wozniak, pseudonym - Berkeley Blue, organized meetings of the "Home Computer Club" , the "headquarters" of which was the Jobs' garage. It was here that Steve Jobs built his first computer.
The guys were passionate about their work. Steve Wozniak developed a printed circuit board, which became the basis of the future invention, and the future businessman himself showed commercial acumen, realizing that even such a brainchild would bring profit.
What name did Steve Jobs and his partner give to their company? The company was named Apple, opened in 1976 , and registered a year later.
Success awaited the young people - Steve Jobs received a large order to supply computers for a local hardware store. The house became a workshop for the preparation of electronic machines, where the Jobs and their friends worked. The computers were sold to the store, and the remainder was sold to members of the Home Computer Club.
Later, the young man and his partner agreed on a price for their first Apple 1 computer that wasn't too low but still allowed them to make a profit: $666.66.
The new computer Apple II (Apple 2) became a bestseller, “exploding” the computer equipment market. The young businessman is 24 years old and receives his first million.
Steve Jobs and Apple.
To implement the plan, a company called Apple Computer Co was created, the basic capital of which started at $1,300.
Soon she receives her first offer from an electronics store. It was a fairly large and desirable order, but the total amount of parts significantly exceeded their financial capabilities. Steve Jobs himself found a way out of this situation, managing to persuade suppliers to give materials on credit for a month. As a result, a whole decade with insignificant breaks for sleep was spent completing the task at hand - the first order. The first personal computer was called Apple I. Its second version, a trial copy of which was developed in the fall of the same year, became widespread. The release of the computer model reached the 5 million mark and brought real success to the company.
Already based on the results of the first shares, Steve Jobs was among the ranks of young millionaires, since at that time he was only 25 years old.
At the end of 1979, in December, Jobs saw the first computer in his life, the interface of which was graphical. This became possible after he received the opportunity to freely enter the bowels of the research center of a company called Xerox. This episode was the impetus for the emergence of the Macintosh, which became a real breakthrough in the computer environment.
But not everything is as smooth as it looks from the outside. After some time, Stephen's disagreements with the executive director of Apple reached their climax, as a result of which the former quickly curtailed all his developments and left the company for a long time. This did not have the best effect on the company; failure after failure began to haunt it. Jobs did not retire, continuing to develop his projects outside of Apple.
Apple actually rose from the ruins when Jobs returned to its walls. Since then, its products have occupied a leading position in the market for computer technology sales.
Macintosh - the first computer
1984 . An Apple commercial comes out during prime time. Slogan: “On January 24th Apple announced Macintosh .
The bright advertisement, like Steve Jobs' new computer, made a lasting impression.
Macintosh is a computer designed not for corporations, but for the needs of the average person.
The device replaces the unsuccessful Apple III. What a surprise the public was!
Briefly – characteristics of the machine and an overview of changes:
- A single unit equipped with a mouse that replaces a joystick;
- Availability of a graphical interface, command line menu, cursor;
- Affordable price.
Pixar and Disney
Captivated by the idea of developing computer graphics, the founder of Ogryok did not stop there. 1985 - Jobs came to the decision to buy Pixar. At that time, the company produced only one type of computer, which was not popular on the market.
Former Disney artist John Lasseter , whose task is to create short animated videos demonstrating the strengths of computers. Later, it was this personality that would lead the figure to a contract with Disney.
Early 90s: Disney offers Pixar to make a film. Jobs makes the decision, realizing that Disney is interested in working with Pixar, in particular, working with Lasseter. Thanks to this, the entrepreneur negotiates favorable terms of cooperation.
The result of the collaboration is the release of the full-length animated film “Toy Story” in English. The film was released in Russian in 2004.
The film is a resounding success!
Steve made incredible efforts to get out of the crisis. Now he is a billionaire.
Later, the entrepreneur sells Pixar shares to Disney for a record amount. The studio is filming a sequel to Toy Story.
Return to Apple
Mid-90s: things are not going well. The situation needs to be corrected, and Apple sends the former employee an offer to purchase NextStep operating software. What’s most interesting is that Jobs agrees to the deal for $427.5 million.
Taking advantage of the moment, the entrepreneur becomes an adviser to the company's president, and later - the general director (CEO).
Steve Jobs makes a number of decisions as the new CEO:
- Dismissal of more than 3,000 employees;
- Unprofitable projects were closed;
- The range of cars is narrowed to 4 models;
- It is seeking investment from its main competitor, Microsoft.
Late 1990s: Apple returns to growth and profitability.
Revolution in the world of gadgets
Steve Jobs came up with the idea to make the device compact , convenient, and stylish. Mid-1998 marks the start of the release of i-products; the updated iMac monoblock became the flagship.
Creation of the Apple Store
To develop sales, Jobs decided to open stores. The manager kept the creation of sales points a closely guarded secret; the project was developed for more than two years. As a result, Jobs defined the style of the brand: minimalism, laconicism.
The first Russian online Apple Store was opened in 2013.
Creating iTunes
2001 - Steve Jobs at a presentation announces the release of a free application for synchronizing Apple devices with PCs. It allows you to download files to the player and manage it.
First iPod
2001 – iPod music player released. The interface was thought out by Jobs to the smallest detail. People were fans of the new product - within a few years, the iPod's share of sales occupied a leading position in the market.
iTunes Store
The iTunes Store is the first platform for selling media content:
- Music;
- Films;
- Audiobooks;
- Educational programs for schoolchildren, on the basis of which they can prepare an abstract or essay.
History of the iPhone
“The famous gadget from Jobs,” the scanword will ask. 5 letters Of course, iPhone!
iPhones are the most famous smartphones of our time. The device was designed in top secret mode. The first model was no longer similar to other mobile phones:
- Touch screen control;
- “Slide to unlock” unlocking mechanism;
- Computer + player + camera + phone = iPhone.
Today, the manufacturer is working on the iPhone SE 2020. The predecessor of the model (2016) combined the powerful iPhone 6 s processor in a compact, elongated iPhone 5 s body.
The history of the iPad
“The tablet that Jobs created. 4 letters” The answer is iPad.
2010: Jobs unveils the iPad. The main emphasis is on design and ease of use. The public did not immediately accept Jobs' new creation, but thanks to the abundance of AppStore applications, the product finds its consumer.
Return to Apple
In 1997, Steve Jobs returns to Apple. First as an interim director, and since 2000 as a full-fledged manager. Several unprofitable areas were closed and work on the new iMac computer was successfully completed, after which the company's business rapidly took off.
Later, a lot of developments will be presented that will become trendsetters in the technology market. This includes the iPhone mobile phone, the iPod player, and the iPad tablet computer, which went on sale in 2010. All this will make Apple the third largest company in the world by capitalization (it will even surpass Microsoft).
Personal life
Steve's personal life story is detailed in the biographical novel iKona Steve.
Steve Jobs and women
The first girl is Chris Ann Brennan , who gave birth to a daughter, Lisa, from a businessman. denied paternity for a long time and did not pay alimony for the girl’s maintenance. In the fall of 2020, a book about Steve Jobs and his relationship with Lisa was published.
After that, the IT legend met with Barbara Jasinski, Joan Baez, Jennifer Egan, Tina Redse.
Family and Children
The only wife of a genius is Lauren Jobs (Powell). The future Jobs met at Stanford Business School, where the famous entrepreneur gave a talk.
The romance was dizzying: already in 1991 the couple got married. The spouses were faithful to each other, there was always mutual understanding in their relationship. The family had three children : Reed Jobs, Erin, Eve Jobs.
The entrepreneur was very close to his eldest son and supported him. Her relationship with Erin was more distant; she was afraid of her father. The youngest daughter of Steve Jobs and the father of digital evolution himself were very similar in character, as well as perseverance and hard work, for which she received great respect from her father.
Relationships with biological parents
According to the laws of the country, the parents of the future legend and their son could not know anything about each other’s whereabouts.
When Steve turned to a private agent, he was able to find the doctor who delivered the baby and received documents with the names of the parents. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, met with his mother several times, but had absolutely no relationship with his father.
He developed a good relationship with his biological sister, Mona Simpson.
The nationality of the mother (Joan Schieble) is German from a family of Catholic emigrants. On his father's side, the genius of the digital revolution is half Arab.
Steve Jobs' father (full name Abdulfattah John Jandali, Syrian by nationality) later admitted that he wanted to restore relations with his son, but he never managed to do so. Steve Jobs repeated to every question about his parents: “I no longer have biological parents.”
Childhood
As we already mentioned, Stephen did not grow up with his natural parents. His mother was Joan Schible, a student at the University of Wisconsin, and his father was John Jandali, an assistant at the same institution.
The couple were not married when Joan found out she was pregnant, and her Catholic parents spoke out against their relationship and the child. They even began to threaten to deprive her of her inheritance, so the girl gave birth to the baby in a private clinic and immediately gave it up for adoption. This happened on February 24, 1955.
Joan carefully chose parents for her son, and her main requirement was a higher education. But the couple Paul and Clara Jobs did not fit this parameter, and the girl forced them to write a receipt stating that they undertake to pay for his education.
From that time on, she never saw her son again, and only 31 years later did their first meeting take place. Steve himself considers Paul and Clara his parents.
The boy was named Stephen Paul, and two years later the Jobs took another girl into the family. They all moved to Mountain View together, and Clara got a job as an accountant and Paul worked at a finance company doing auto mechanics. He tried to interest his son in his business, but Steve liked electronics more. He disassembled receivers and televisions and even then began to get involved in this business.
His parents were concerned about getting an education, but Steve was bored at school. The teachers considered him a bully, and only Miss Hill managed to find an approach to the extraordinary child.
True, because of the crime-ridden area, his parents had to move because the boy had problems at school. They chose the town of Cupertino, which is now part of Silicon Valley.
In a new place, Steve met engineer Larry Lang, who introduced him to the world of computers. He brought the boy to classes at a club where they were doing research projects. There he saw a personal computer and immediately burst into ideas.
Steve started his project and built his first frequency counter. Then he got a job at HP and worked in several other places. This allowed him to already have his own car at the age of 15.
In 1969, he met Steve Wozniak, and they immediately became best friends. They were both interested in electronics and computers, so the boys had many common topics to discuss.
Illness and death
In 2003, doctors diagnosed the celebrity with pancreatic cancer.
Steve Jobs, at a press release in 2004, announced victory over the disease after surgery. However, neither doctors, nor alternative treatment, nor Kabbalah give results - oncology progresses.
Steve's last project, the iPhone 4s, was shown to the public the day before his death.
October 5, 2011 RIA Novosti publishes a message: the founder of Apple has gone to another world. Cause: pancreatic cancer.
