PRESENTATION ON MY FAVOURITE BUSINESSMAN

ARVIND YADAVFYBBA ROLLNO. 44

INDEX1. BIOGRAPHY2. BIRTH OF APPLE COMPUTER3. THE IPOD REVOLUTION4. PERSONAL LIFE5. THINGS TO TAKE FROM HIM6. BIBILIOGRAPHY

STEVE JOBS BIOGRAPHY

BIRTH AND ADOPTION Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Syrian father, Abdulfattah John Jandali. A week after birth he was put up for adoption. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs who gave him the name of Steven Paul Jobs.

CHILDHOOD AND TEENAGE YEARS Since he was a boy, his skills became so apparent that he was allowed to skip 5th grade and go straight to middle school. When he became 11 years old he moved to Los Altos that distinguished by its great number of engineer’s garages. At Homestead High, he attended his first electronics class and befriended Bill Fernandez, who shared his passion for electronics. Fernandez happened to know an electronics whiz whose name was Steve Wozniak.

14-year old Steven Paul Jobs

THE BIRTH OF APPLE COMPUTER At that time, Steve Wozniak was working in the design of what would be considered as the first PCs. Steve’s own interest in computer design was limited, but he understood that his friend’s current project was an amazing feat of engineering. He started to get involved and after a few months, he convinced Woz to found a company to sell his computer. So, on April 1, 1976, Apple was born. The name “Apple Computer” was chosen because they hadn’t found anything better and because it was Steve’s favorite food.

Apple’s first logo

THE IPOD REVOLUTION In the early 21st century, a new age of computing began: that of the digital lifestyle. When the Napster phenomenon erupted in 2000, Steve asked the iTunes team to work on a new project, a portable digital music player. The iPod was introduced to the world on October 23, 2001 and could carry “1,000 songs in your pocket”.

PERSONAL LIFE Jobs married Laurene Powell on March 18, 1991 and has had three children with her. He also had a daughter named Lisa Brennan-Jobs with Chris Brennan, whom he did not marry. One of the most difficult episode of Steve’s life occurred in the midst of the turnaround of his very busy career. On 2004, he was diagnosed with cancer. His doctors told him that it was incurable. Later, he had a biopsy where the doctors found it was a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.

Steve talking about his personal experience with

death

THINGS TO TAKE FROM HIM

“The only way to do great work is to love what you

do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t

settle.”

“I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a

billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-

building.”

“Live everyday as if you were to die tomorrow”

BIBILIOGRAPHY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs http://www.esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/mo

vies.html http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Jobs.html Apple.com http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/ad

s.html