Steve Paul Jobs- The founder of 'Apple inc.'

 

Jobs was born in sanfransico and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Moutain view, California.His biological parents are Abdulfattah John Jandali, a syrian muslim and a graduate from Homs who was later a political science preofessor and Joanne Simpson, an American Graduate who went on to become a Speech Language Pathologist.In 1972, jobs graduated his high school and enrolled in Reed college in to learnt calligraphy.          

Steve Paul Jobs when he was young

In autumn 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video games, with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India.            

In 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Woznaik and Ronald Wayne,with later funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer A.C."Mike" Markulla jr. founded Apple. Prior to co-founding Apple, Wozniak was an electronics hacker. Jobs and Wozniak had been friends for several years, having met in 1971, when their mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, introduced 21-year-old Wozniak to 16-year-old Jobs. Steve Jobs managed to interest Wozniak in assembling a computer and selling it. As Apple continued to expand, the company began looking for an experienced executive to help manage its expansion.

In 1978, Apple recruited MikeScott from National SemiConductoer to serve as CEO for what turned out to be several turbulent years. In 1983, Steve Jobs lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola to serve as Apple's CEO, asking, "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" The following year, Apple aired a Super Bowl television commercial titled "1984." At Apple's annual shareholders meeting on January 24, 1984, an emotional Jobs introduced the Macintosh to a wildly enthusiastic audience; Andy Hertzfield described the scene as "pandemonium." The Macintosh became the first commercially successful small computer with a graphical user interface. The development of the Mac was started by Jef Raskin, and eventually taken over by Jobs.

While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic director for Apple, some of his employees from that time had described him as an erratic and temperamental manager. An industry-wide sales slump towards the end of 1984 caused a deterioration in Jobs's working relationship with Sculley, and at the end of May 1985 – following an internal power struggle and an announcement of significant layoffs – Sculley relieved Jobs of his duties as head of the Macintosh division. He later claimed that being fired from Apple what the best thing that could happen to him; “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.”

        Around the same time, Jobs founded another computer company, NEXT computer. Like the Apple Lisa, the NeXT workstation was technologically advanced; however, it was largely dismissed by industry as cost-prohibitive.

Jobs 'Pixar Animation Studio' :-

Pixar

In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilms's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital.After years of unprofitability selling the Pixar imageComputer, it contracted with Disney to produce a number of computer-animated feature films, which Disney would co-finance and distribute.The first film produced by jobs is Toy Story. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.

            In the years 2003 and 2004, as Pixar's contract with Disney was running out, Jobs and Disney chief executive Michael Eisner tried but failed to negotiate a new partnership, and in early 2004 Jobs announced that Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its films once its contract with Disney expired.

           On January 24, 2006, Jobs and Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. Once the deal closed, Jobs became The Walt disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately 7% of the company's stock^. Jobs's holdings in Disney far exceed those of Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and of Disney family member ROy E.Disney, who until his 2009 death held about 1% of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner – especially that he soured Disney's relationship with Pixar – accelerated Eisner's ousting. Jobs also helps oversee Disney and Pixar's combined animation businesses with a seat on a special six-man steering committee.

            In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NEXT for $429 million. The deal was finalized in late 1996^, bringing Jobs back to the company he had co-founded. Jobs became de facto chief after then-CEO Gil Amelio was ousted in July. He was formally named interim chief executive in September 1997.

In recent years, the company has branched out, introducing and improving upon other digital appliances. With the introduction of the ipod portable music player, iTunes digital music software, and the iTuneStore, the company made forays into consumer electronics and music distribution. In 2007, Apple entered the cellular phone business with the introduction of the iPhone, a multi-touch display cell phone, which also included the features of an iPod and, with its own mobile browser, revolutionized the mobile browsing scene. While stimulating innovation, Jobs also reminds his employees that "real artists ship"^, by which he means that delivering working products on time is as important as innovation and attractive design.

           In August 2011, Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained at the company as chairman of the company's board.Jobs is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in 338 US patents or patent applications related to a range of technologies from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages.Without his efforts there would have been no iPod, iPhone, Tablets.

Steve Job-The chairman of Apple company