STEVE JOBS

                                                        Steve Jobs Co-Founder of Apple.inc

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer  (CEO) of Apple.inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of Thwe Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXt.

Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Background

• Jobs was born in San Francisco to parents who had to put him up for adoption at birth; he was raised in the San francisco Bay Area during the 1960s.
• In addition, as there was a strong stigma against bearing a child out of wedlock and raising it as a single mother, and as abortions were illegal and dangerous, adoption was the only option women had in the United States in 1954 .
• Jobs briefly attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out.
•  He then decided to travel through india in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying zen Buddhism .
• Jobs "was often bullied" and gave his parents an ultimatum: they had to either take him out of Crittenden or he would drop out of school.

Career 

• When he was 13 in 1968, Jobs was given a summer job by Bill hewlett(of Hewlett-Packard) after Jobs cold-called him to ask for parts for an electronics project .
• Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The visionaries gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers.
•  In addition to being the first mass-produced computer with a GUI, the Macintosh introduced the sudden rise of the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics.
• Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985.
• After leaving Apple, Jobs took a few of its members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company that specialized in state-of-the-art computers for higher-education and business markets. 
• 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 Lucasfilm in 1986.
• In 1997, Apple merged with NeXT.

Within a few months of the merger, Jobs became CEO of his former company; he revived Apple at the verge of bankruptcy.

Beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign, Jobs worked closely with designer Jonathan Lve to develop a line of products that would have larger cultural ramifications: the iMac, iTunes and iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad.

In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with a completely new Mac OS X, based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform, giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time .

Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003 and died on October 5, 2011, of respiratory arrest related to the tumor.

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." Steve Jobs