Steve Jobs Research Paper
Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali. Steven would later be adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs he was named after his adopted father, Steven Paul Jobs. His mother worked as an accountant and his father was a Coast Guard veteran and a self-taught machinist. The family lived in Mountain View within California's Silicon Valley.
While in high school, Jobs spent his free time at Hewlett-Packard. It was there that he befriended computer guru Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was a computer engineer wiz, and the two developed a great friendship and high respect for one another. After high school Jobs was accepted to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. With nothing motivating …show more content…
The two started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their entrepreneurial venture after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak are known for revolutionizing the computer industry and making the machines smaller, cheaper, and intuitive with a starting price of only $666.66 each. Their first model, the Apple I, made them $774,000. A few years after the release of their second model, the Apple II, sales increased 700% to $139 million dollars. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publically traded company with a market value of $1.2 billion on the very first …show more content…
Apple released the Macintosh in 1984, with a marketing campaign portraying the computer as piece of a counter culture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. Despite positive sales and performance far better than that of IBM's computers, the Macintosh was still not IBM compatible. Scully believed Jobs was hurting Apple, and executives began to phase him out as well as the board.
Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO in 1985. Jobs didn't quit though he begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc. The following year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Jobs believing in the future of animation he invested $50 million of his own money into the company. Pixar Studios went on to produce wildly popular animation films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Pixar's films have netted $4 billion. Pixar merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's largest private
While in high school, Jobs spent his free time at Hewlett-Packard. It was there that he befriended computer guru Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was a computer engineer wiz, and the two developed a great friendship and high respect for one another. After high school Jobs was accepted to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. With nothing motivating …show more content…
The two started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their entrepreneurial venture after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak are known for revolutionizing the computer industry and making the machines smaller, cheaper, and intuitive with a starting price of only $666.66 each. Their first model, the Apple I, made them $774,000. A few years after the release of their second model, the Apple II, sales increased 700% to $139 million dollars. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publically traded company with a market value of $1.2 billion on the very first …show more content…
Apple released the Macintosh in 1984, with a marketing campaign portraying the computer as piece of a counter culture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. Despite positive sales and performance far better than that of IBM's computers, the Macintosh was still not IBM compatible. Scully believed Jobs was hurting Apple, and executives began to phase him out as well as the board.
Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO in 1985. Jobs didn't quit though he begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc. The following year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Jobs believing in the future of animation he invested $50 million of his own money into the company. Pixar Studios went on to produce wildly popular animation films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Pixar's films have netted $4 billion. Pixar merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's largest private