Steve Jobs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Steven Paul . He was the co- founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1. Apple co- founder Steve Wozniak. Shortly after his death, Jobs's official biographer, Walter Isaacson, described him as a . Jobs was adopted at birth in San Francisco, and raised in a hotbed of counterculture, the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1. The duo gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass- produced personal computers.
In 1. 97. 9, after a tour of Xerox PARC, Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto, which was mouse- driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1. Macintosh in 1. 98. In addition to being the first mass- produced computer with a GUI, the Macintosh instigated the sudden rise of the desktop publishing industry in 1. Apple Laser. Writer, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Following a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1.
In addition, Jobs helped to initiate the development of the visual effects industry when he funded the spinout of the computer graphics division of George Lucas's company Lucasfilm in 1. He would return the company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, back to profitability. Beginning in 1. 99. Mac OS was also revamped into Mac OS X, based on Ne. XT's Ne. XTSTEP platform. Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2. October 5, 2. 01.
Background. Parents. Jobs's adoptive father, Paul Reinhold Jobs (1. They were engaged ten days later and married in 1. After a series of moves, Paul and Clara settled in San Francisco's Sunset District in 1. Muslim household and grew up in Homs, Syria. But there are a lot of Arabs in Michigan and Wisconsin.
So it's not that unusual. Jandali has stated that he . And so she told me she wanted to give the baby up for adoption. I was scared they were going to take him away from me.
Even after we won the case, Steve was so difficult a child that by the time he was two I felt we had made a mistake. I wanted to return him. That's not harsh, it's just the way it was, a sperm bank thing, nothing more. Jobs are, as they raised him.
He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine. He is the author of Steve Jobs (2011. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine.
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. 10/06/2011 @ 2:14PM 18,285 views. For the eighth time Steve Jobs would crown the magazine cover. Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve Jobs: Walter Isaacson: 9781451648546. He is the author of The Innovators: How a Group of. By Inkhorn HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER on Oct. Steve Jobs’s business feats were legendary long before he died in October 2011. At the same time, Jobs’s leadership style was complex. From Steve Jobs down to the janitor. One such lesson could be called the “Difference Between the Janitor and the Vice President,” and it’s a sermon Jobs delivers every time an. 2011 issue of Fortune magazine.
And I don't want to take their place. If we needed a cabinet, he would build it. When he built our fence, he gave me a hammer so I could work with him .. I wasn't that into fixing cars ..
She bribed me into learning. She would say, 'I really want you to finish this workbook. I'll give you five bucks if you finish it.' That really kindled a passion in me for learning things! I learned more that year than I think I learned in any other year in school. They wanted me to skip the next two years in grade school and go straight to junior high to learn a foreign language but my parents very wisely wouldn't let it happen. Although the Jobs family was not well off, they used all of their savings to buy a new home.
Thus in 1. 96. 7. Fernandez later commented that . I was one of his few friends. I was putting in screws.
It didn't matter; I was in heaven. He also had no interest in sports and would later say that he didn't have what it took to .
I was always a loner. I read Moby Dick and went back as a junior taking creative writing classes.
The teacher was this guy who looked like Ernest Hemingway. He took a bunch of us snowshoeing in Yosemite. This experience led him to study in nearby Stanford University's student union. Jobs also decided that rather than join the electronics club, he would put on light shows with a friend for Homestead's avant- garde Jazz program.
He was described by a Homestead classmate as . He was smart enough to be a nerd, but wasn't nerdy. And he was too intellectual for the hippies, who just wanted to get wasted all the time. He was kind of an outsider. In high school everything revolved around what group you were in. He was an individual, in a world where individuality was suspect. Brennan portrayed Alice while Wozniak, Jobs, and Al portrayed the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter.
Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara could ill afford. They were spending much of their life savings on their son's higher education. She also met his Reed friend Daniel Kottke for the first time. He continued to attend by auditing classes, including a course on calligraphy taught by Robert Palladino, but since he was no longer an official student, Brennan stopped visiting him. Jobs later asked her to come and live with him in a house he rented near the Reed campus, but she refused. He had started seeing other women, and she was interested in someone she met in her art class.
Brennan speculates that the house was Jobs's attempt to make their relationship monogamous again. In that same speech, Jobs said: .
There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money . After finishing it, Wozniak gave the board to Jobs, who then took the game down to Atari, Inc. Atari thought that Jobs had built it and gave him a job as a technician.
Brennan states by this point that their . I couldn't break the connection and I couldn't commit. Steve couldn't either. At the same time, Brennan notes, . But we were never able to fully let go. We never talked about breaking up or going our separate ways and we didn't have that conversation where one person says it's over. They remained involved with each other while continuing to see other people.
Brennan visited him twice at the cabin. She states in her memoir that her memories of this cabin consist of Jobs reading Be Here Now (and giving her a copy), listening to South Indian music, and using a Japanese meditation pillow. Brennan felt that he was more distant and negative toward her. Brennan states in her memoir that she met with Jobs right before he left for India and that he tried to give her a $1.
Atari. She initially refused to accept it but eventually accepted the money. When they got to the Neem Karoli ashram, it was almost deserted because Neem Karoli Baba had died in September 1. In India, they spent a lot of time on bus rides from Delhi to Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. Jobs was living with his parents again, in their backyard toolshed which he had converted into a bedroom with a sleeping bag, mat, books, a candle, and a meditation pillow. According to Bushnell, Atari offered US$1. TTL chip that was eliminated in the machine.
Jobs had little specialized knowledge of circuit board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the fee evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the amazement of Atari engineers, Wozniak reduced the TTL count to 4. Jobs decided that they could make money selling it. The clandestine sales of the illegal . He states it showed them that they could take on large companies and beat them. Not only couldn't we afford the computers that were on the market, those computers were impractical for us to use.
We needed a Volkswagen. The Volkswagen isn't as fast or comfortable as other ways of traveling, but the VW owners can go where they want, when they want and with whom they want. The VW owners have personal control of their car. After Wozniak showed it to Jobs, who suggested that they sell it, they and Ronald Wayne formed Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs's Los Altos home on Crist Drive.
He had a circuit board with a chip on it, a Du. Mont TV set, a Panasonic cassette tape deck and a keyboard. He said, 'This is an Apple computer.' I said, 'You've got to be joking.' I dismissed the whole idea.' . Woz would show up once a week with his latest code. Steve Jobs didn't get his hands dirty in that sense. They always believed that what they were doing was important and, most of all, fun.
Working at Apple was never just a job; it was also a crusade, a mission, to bring better computer power to people. At its roots that attitude came from Steve Jobs. Young, Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward (1.
It was during this period that Jobs and Brennan fell in love again, as Brennan noted changes in him that she attributes to Kobun (whom she was also still following). It was also at this time that Jobs displayed a prototype Apple computer for Brennan and his parents in their living room. Brennan notes a shift in this time period, where the two main influences on Jobs were Apple and Kobun.
By the early 1. 97. Jobs would spend time together at her home at Duveneck Ranch in Los Altos, which served as a hostel and environmental education center. Brennan also worked there as a teacher for inner city children who came to learn about the farm. It was the first consumer product sold by Apple Computer and was one of the first highly successful mass- produced microcomputer products. Jobs oversaw the development of the Apple II's unusual case. Croix brand), Levi's 5.
New Balance 9. 91 sneakers to work. Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson . In 1. 97. 7, with the success of Apple now a part of their relationship, Brennan, Daniel Kottke, and Jobs moved into a house near to the Apple office in Cupertino. In October 1. 97. Brennan was approached by Rod Holt, who asked her to take . Holt was particularly eager that she take the position and puzzled by her ambivalence toward it. Brennan's decision, however, was overshadowed by the fact that she realized she was pregnant and that Jobs was the father.
It took her a few days to tell Jobs, whose face, according to Brennan . At the same time, according to Brennan, at the beginning of her third trimester, Jobs said to her: . I just didn't want to do that. She was estranged from her mother and afraid to discuss the matter with her father.
She also did not feel comfortable with the idea of having an abortion. She chose instead to discuss the matter with Kobun, who encouraged her to have and keep the baby, and pledged his support.