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Submitted ByName: Md. Abdul Wazed

ID: 16306010Section: D

Submitted ToMohammad Sajid Shahriar

LecturerDept. of Computer Science and Engineering

Computer Applications Lab

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Favorite Personality

The Life of Steve

Jobs

Short Description

From the day he was born on February 24, 1955, Steven Paul Jobs has been blazing his own path. As the CEO of Apple Computer and CEO and Chairman of Pixar, Jobs is today recognized as one of the top leaders and visionaries of both the computer and entertainment industries and is worth an estimated $4.4 billion. Steve Jobs, the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died on October 5, 2011, when he was 56 years old.

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Watch a short biography video on Steve Jobs 

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The visionary that changed the lives of millions.

February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011

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Steve Jobs Life Born 24th Feb, 1955 in San Francisco, Steve was an adopted child.

He did his schooling from Los Altos city and later dropped out from his college.

Studied Eastern mysticism.

At 19, got his first job at video-game manufacturer Atari.

Had interest in electronics.

He Skipped 5th grade

Took his first electronics class in high school

After school, attended lectures at the Hewlett Packard company where he met Steve Wonzniak during work.

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Steve Jobs Life Graduated high school in 1972 Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon Dropped out after one semester Slept on his friends dorm room floor and dropped in on Classes of interest-“didn’t have a drom room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.

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Steve Jobs Life Returned to California in 1974 and was hired as a technician

for Atari

Attended meetings at wozniak’s

“Homebrew Computer Club”

Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in building computers. For this Jobs sold his Volkswagen van while Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard Scientific calculator. Jobs named their company – Apple in memory of a happy summer he had spent as an orchard worker in Oregon.8

Steven and Apple Apple Computer – April 1st 1976 Apple’s first sales – The Byte Shop, a local

retailer First public appearance at the Personal

Computer Festival in 1976 Born on April 1st, 1976 Apple I designed and prototype built First single board computer with built-in

Video interface9

Steve and Apple (contd)

First Macintosh – January 24, 1984 Tyranny, chairmanship and marketing Apple went public on December 12, 1980,

Steve market value jumped fro $7.5 million to

$ 217.5 million Apple II designed in the following year Operating System loaded automatically Smaller Components & built-in circuitry In 1976, Jobs looked to hire a public relations agency to help

advertise. 10

Most investors turned Apple down Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula Decided to invest Markkula became chairman of

Apple in May 1977 Became publicly traded company in 1980 Launched LISA in 1983 First commercial computer to use GUI Unpopular due to its few software programs

and high price Micintosh created to compute with PC Marketed for friendliness, not just a mindless

machine Very popular – sold approximately 70,000 Macs in

the first 100 days 11

Sales began to plunge

Wozniak quit Apple in 1985Board members of Apple met onMay 28th , 1985 and each voted on the removal of Stove from the company-

At 30 Jobs, however, was fired from the company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak. He left the company after losing a bitter battle over control with Apple’s CEO John Sculley (whom Jobs had recruited from Pepsi Cola).

Dawnfall – parting from Apple

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Steve Later Said:-

“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the

best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of

being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again,

less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative

periods of my life.”13

Starting all over again

Decided to start his own Company. Founded Next Computer in 1989

NeXT turned a profit for the first time in 1992. NeXT software needed to be made more reliable and compatible for consumers. Company slowly starts going downhill.

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Jobs was criticized for wasting money that belonged to the company in 1993. Closed a NeXT factory in the February. Laid off half of the employees and stopped making computers.

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Also Started Pixar

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Pixar, however was a success story. The company started the first computer-animated film, the Toy Story and when Pixar’s stock went public, Jobs

became in instant billionaire.

Job Back with a Vengeance Meanwhile, his old company, Apple was under immense pressure from

rival Microsoft in 1996 posted billions of dollars in losses.

In December 1996 Jobs convinced Apple to buy NeXT and make it’s software the foundation of the next-generation Mac OS.

The technology he developed at NeXT became the catalyst of Apple’s comeback. Initially appointed as Apple’s adviser, Steve Jobs was named Apple’s interim CEO in 1997

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Ouster and comeback….. Steve’s dismissal Creation of NeXT Early losses “Pixar animation studios” and the first Oscar Declining Apple’s market share December 20, 1996 Apple bought NeXT Welcomed back the company’s founder as

“informal adviser”18

Portable Audio Revolution

Less than a year after iTunes was released,

Apple released the iPod Originally only for Mac users In July 2002, the new iPod was available

for Windows users as well Sales skyrocketed and 75% of MP3 players

In eight weeks, five million songs were sold on iTunes. Took over 80% of the legal music downloading market.

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More Successful Changes

June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch from PowerPC chips to Intel chips.

This would conserve energy on PowerBook and iBook.

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Personality Profile

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According to Mayers – Briggs typeIndicator (MBTI) Steve Job is on ENTJ

…….. Jobs on the job! Charisma Motivator Marketing genius Decision making Recruitment Dealing with employe

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1976: Steve wozniak & Steve jobs starts apple1984: Macintosh Pc debuts1985: Jobs leaves Apple1986: Funds Pixar Animation Studios1997: Rejoins Apple as interim CEO1998: iMac desktop computer unveiled2001: iPod unveiled2007: iPhone launched2010: Apple begins selling iPadAug 9, 2011: Apple briefly becomes world’s most valuable companyAug 24, 2011: Jobs steps down as Apple CEOOct 5, 2011: Jobs dies after battle with cancer

The prominent style of Steve

24He used to say that:- I save time even on thinking what to wear every morning.”

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Remembering The inspirationalWorld of Apple’s

CEO

Jobs believes that everything happens for a reason and although that reason may be hard to see at the time, sometimes you need to

just sit back and have faith that things will work out in the end. Trusting your own decisions is often one of the most difficult but

necessary and rewarding experiences.

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U.S. Smartphone Market share

39%

20%

10%

7%

3%

21%

Sales

RIM Apple

Palm Motorola

Nokia Other

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Steve jobs Honors and Awards

2013 Posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend.

2012 Grammy Trustees Award, an award for those who have influenced the music industry in areas unrelated to performance.

2007 Jobs was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.

2007 Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine.

1989 '’Entrepreneur of the Decade'’ by Inc. magazine

1987  Jefferson Award for Public Service

1985  National Medal of Technology (with Steve Wozniak)

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Steve Jobs’ Quotes

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Listen! I’ll Tell

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“I didn’t see it them,

But it turned out that

Getting fired fromApple was the best

thing that could have

Ever happened toMe.”

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You know, we don’t grow most of the Food we eat. We wear clothes other People make. We speak a language

That other people developed. We useA mathematics that other people

Evolved….. I mean, we’re constantly Taking things. It’s wonderfulTaking things. It’s constantly

Ecstatic felling to create something That puts it back it back in the pool of

humanExperience and knowledge.

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ThankYou