Steve Jobs: Presented By-Santosh Vijay Dhamankur Rahul Jatin
Steve Jobs: Presented By-Santosh Vijay Dhamankur Rahul Jatin
Steve Jobs: Presented By-Santosh Vijay Dhamankur Rahul Jatin
EARLY YEARS
Jobs met Steve Wozniak shortly after they both left school while working for HewlettPackard
Woz was an incredibly talented engineer, especially in electronic gadgets Jobs then traveled to India to visit Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram in search of spiritual enlightenment
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Hired as a technician for Atari. Came to India and than again Returned to California in 1974 Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in building computers
CAREER
APPLE NEXT COMPUTER PIXAR AND DISNEY
Apple
Jobs and Woz sold the Apple I in 1976 for $666, making over $776,000 from sales In 1977, the two released the Apple II, a single board computer with onboard ROM and a color video interface.
The Macintosh
In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, the first personal computer with a graphical user interface. Along with the mouse, the Macintosh was the most revolutionary computer made up to that point.
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
NeXT
After leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT Computer in 1985, with $7 million. A new computer company based on an object oriented software platform, NeXT failed first as a hardware company, then evolved as a software company The NeXT workstation was known for its technical strengths, chief among them its objectoriented software development system
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The revised, second-generation NeXTcube was released in 1990 NeXTcube could share voice, image, graphics, and video in email for the first time NeXT was acquired by Apple Inc. in 1997
In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million It contracted with Disney to produce a number of computer-animated feature films that Disney would co-finance and distribute The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story, brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released in 1995
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Under Jobs's guidance the company increased sales significantly with the introduction of the iMac and other new products
BUSINESS LIFE
Wealth Jobs earned only $1 a year as CEO of Apple, he held 5.426 million Apple shares, as well as 138 million shares in Disney (which he received in exchange for Disney's acquisition of Pixar) Forbes estimated his net wealth at $8.3 billion in 2010, making him the 42nd wealthiest American
Management style Jobs was a demanding perfectionist[ who always aspired to position his businesses and their products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting trends. Fortune wrote that he was "considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs
HONOURS
National Medal of Technology from President Ronald Reagan in 1985 with Steve Wozniak (the first people to ever receive the honor). Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category "Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under" in 1987.
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Stanford Commencement Speaker in 2005 Named the most powerful person in business by Fortune Magazine on November 27, 2007. Inducted into the California Hall of Fame by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on December 5, 2007
RECENT UPDATES
Apple has total of 284 retail stores Last quarter they had 50,000,000 visitors. App stores 140,000 applications.
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Fiscal quarter of 2010 ended with $15.6 bn of revenue making Apple Inc. a more than $50 bn company. Apple is largest mobile devices company in the world.
CONCLUSION
Steve Jobs - extraordinary man by standards. Left mark in 4 industries:
PC Music Phone Animation
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Changed million of lives by making technology easy to use. You know what the BEST part is?
HEs NOT DONE YET!!
REST IN PEACE
Thank You