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.
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