Profile Piece Steve Jobs

This is a snippet from my profile piece I did about Steve Jobs for a magazine called 'Vision', which was part of a project I was working on back in January. Hope you enjoy!


                                                                            Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs born on February 24th, 1955, founded one of the biggest companies in the world with his childhood friend. This company was Apple; it is now a multinational technology corporation.

Steve Jobs love for electronics started from a young age, as his adoptive father Paul, would show his son how to take apart and re-make electronics.  This hobby built confidence, and mechanical knowledge in Jobs from a very young age.   Jobs, was always a very innovative thinker. From a young age he didn’t have much patient for school.  In 1976 at the age of 21, Steve Jobs founded Apple Computers, with his childhood friend Steve Wozniak.  He and Wozniak started Apple Computers and it was incorporated in 1977.

They started in the Jobs family garage, to fund this idea Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator amongst    other things proving that they could perform against financial concerns – this proved to be their source of income in getting the business up and running. Apple originally marketed the computers for $666.66 each.

 Apple Computer became a publically traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion on the very first day of trading. Jobs were Apple's chief visionary, a role that put him in charge of the team developing Apple's next revolutionary product, the Macintosh computer.

Despite Apple Computer initially starting off well, things took a turn for the worse, as the next few products that were released didn’t do as well because they had design flaws, which caused a setback for Apple itself, as it left the consumers  unable to rely on the company.  But his lack of business skills due to his age meant that decisions in the boardroom were left to other members of the team, and they seemed to feel that Jobs had served his purpose.

Eventually it turned to disagreement with chief executive John Sculley in 1985; Jobs left the company that he had created. But despite the setback Jobs set his sights elsewhere. Steve went onto create the company NeXT, this company developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets.