Sir Steve Jobs- A Bio
- 1. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple By DP Bullington
- 3. Education Never got a degree
- 4. - Enrolled 1972 -Dropped out after one semester -Took calligraphy Reed College "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts", he said
- 5. Post-College Years Travelled to India with a friend Became a Buddhist Tripped out on psychedelics Described LSD experiences as, "one of the two or three most important things [he has] done in [his] life."
- 6. Created Apple in 1976 with Stephen Wozniak and Ronald Wayne
- 7. Got Pepsi's CEO to become Apple's CEO in 1983 Jobs asked Pepsi's CEO John Scully, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water to children, or do you want a chance to change the world?"
- 8. 3 Years Later... Tensions with the Pepsi Man led him to get fired from the company he co-founded BARRED!
- 9. Went on to create another company called NeXT Computer in 1986 Created expensive and technologically advanced computers First computers to include audio and graphics in e-mail
- 10. At the same time he bought a company called The Graphics Group... ...for $10 Million. Jobs paid $5 million in cash
- 11. That Company became Pixar And they were pretty successful
- 12. Sells NeXT to Apple for $429 Million in 1997 And became the CEO (again) of the company he co-founded
- 13. Current Status and Role in Apple -Co-founder/CEO -Markets products -Creates new products
- 14. A Few Things Apple Has Made With Jobs as CEO
- 15. As of September 29, 2007, the Company had approximately 21,600 full-time equivalent employees and an additional 2,100 temporary equivalent employees and contractors. By 2009: 35,000 employees worldwide $42.91 Billion Revenue Apple's Current Performance
- 16. Community involvement Donating Macs to universities such as the University of Maryland's College of Chemical and Life Sciences
- 17. Ecological Issues: e-waste Apple was criticized for its poor recycling program In 2006, he expanded Apple's recycling programs to any U.S. customer who buys a new Mac. This program includes shipping and "environmentally friendly disposal" of their old systems
- 18. Pivotal Issues confronting in the near future? -Release of iPad (Like an iPod Touch, only bigger and $500) -Bad Health -Pancreatic cancer, "hormone imbalance", liver transplant - 2008, Bloomberg (news company) mistakenly releases obituary with blank spaces under Age and Cause of Death
- 20. Contributions to prominence Keynote speeches (Go to YouTube video ) -Great Marketer, used lots of adjectives, got people excited Personality Fortune wrote that he "is considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs." Floyd Norman said that at Pixar, Jobs was a "mature, mellow individual" and never interfered with the creative process of the filmmakers Good connections
- 21. My Perspective of Steve Jobs
- 22. Thank You