Steve
Jobs
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was a graduate student named Joanne Simpson, and his biological father was a political science or mathematics professor, a native Syrian named Abdulfattah John Jandali. They decided to put Steve up for adoption but they only wanted him to be adopted by well educated people that had a college education also. Paul and Clara Jobs, did not meet her expectations,they were a lower-middle class couple that had settled in the Bay Area after the war. Paul was a machinist from the Midwest who had not even graduated from high school. In the end, Joanne agreed to have her baby adopted by them, under the firm condition that they later send him to college. Steve actually wasn’t very interested in school at first until 4th grade. He did so well that he actually skipped fifth grade and went straight to 6th. He attended Crittenden Middle School, most kids there were not interested in school but more rather interested in bullying, and Steve was one of their victims for their poor interest. He demanded that he be transferred to another school or else he would just stop going. His parents complied, they moved to the cozier city of Los Altos, so that Steve could go to Cupertino Junior High. As Steve grew up in Los Altos he grew an interest in dealing with Electronics. Once Steve was out of middle school he went to Homestead High School where he enrolled in a popular electronics class. One of Jobs High School teachers recalled Steve calling up Bill Hewlett himself, co-founder of HP, to get spare parts for his homework, and even a summer job at HP’s factory. Steve’s entrepreneurial skills showed up early in his life. One of Jobs friends introduced him to someone who would become very important in Jobs life, his name was Stephen Wozniak, also known as Woz. Steve and Woz met in 1969. Steve and Woz met in 1969, when they were respectively 14 and 19. When Woz and Steve met Woz was actually working on a computer board at the time. Woz usually had the hardest time explaining what he was doing to people because they just didn’t get it, but Steve got it right away. Steve and Woz became bestfriends. A couple of years later, Woz and Steve started their first entrepreneurial venture. It was 1972, and on US campuses, there was a lot of talk about “phone phreaks.” They were early computer hackers that managed to build “blue boxes” little devices that fooled AT&T’s long-distance switching equipment, and allowed you to make phone calls for free. Woz had read about them and told Steve about it, which gave them the idea to try and build one, which they did, and surprisingly it worked! Steve game up with the idea to sell them,they would go room to room in Berkeley’s dorms, where Woz was a student, and sell them to interested students. What they were doing was illegal though and they actually stopped because they almost got caught by the police. Jobs enrolled into college, but after being there for a bit he decided it wasn’t really for him and that his parents shouldn’t be wasting their money on it, so he decided to drop out and just told himself that everything would turn out ok, which everything did, and it was the best decision he had ever made. In 1974, Steve desperately needed money, so he got a job at Atari. Atari was the first video game company. It was created by Nolan Bushnell in 1972, and one of its first employees was Al Acorn, the inventor of Pong. Steve was hired even though he would often call his co-workers names and smell pretty bad. That’s why he was soon moved to the night shift. Steve looked up to Nolan Bushnell, he was one of his inspirations in starting Apple. Later on Woz However, in his spare time, he had cultivated his interest in designing computer circuits, and had joined a computer hobbyists association called the Homebrew Computer Club. Woz started working on his own computer, which he showed it to Jobs. Jobs was so impressed by it, they started making the computer themselves and start selling them at Homebrew meetings.Steve later on came up with idea to start their own company, Steve told Woz“Well, even if we lose money, we’ll have a company. For once in our lives, we’ll have a company.” Woz thought that was a good enough argument. To get the the $1,000 they needed to start building the first boards, Steve sold his Volkswagen van, and Woz his HP 65 calculator. They thought about how to call the new company, and couldn’t come up with a good name, until one day, Steve said that they would call it Apple if they didn’t find anything better. And they didn’t… so Apple Computer was born.The two friends needed some more help getting their company started, and they got it from one of Steve’s colleagues from Atari, Ron Wayne. Wayne basically wrote the necessary paperwork to start a corporation and drew the company’s first logo. As a result, he got 10% of the company’s shares, while Steve and Woz split the rest (45% each).Apple Computer’s first order was from a Homebrew member called Paul Terrel. Paul Terrel started a store called the Byte shop, Paul ordered 50 of them for his store, at $500 a piece. That was $25,000 altogether,iIt was a huge step forward for their company, and got Steve and Woz very excited. They started putting together the parts in the Jobs garage, with help from Steve’s sister Patti and his friend from Reed, Dan Kottke. They paid them $1 a board. The parts for the Apple cost $220, while the computer was sold to Terrel for $500.Steve and Woz also started selling the computer on their own. They agreed on the retail price of $666.66. That number was based on a simple calculation, a 33% margin. They showed it to the Homebrew people in March 1976, but the response wasn’t very positive.So they went elsewhere, going from store to store and trying to sell them. They sold a couple hundreds this way.This was the start of Apple Computer. Steve and Woz had bought the other co-founder Ron Wayne out for $800, and incorporated the company on April 1, 1976. Getting into the general idea of Apple and what they do, and what apple is, Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPodmedia player, the iPhonesmartphone, and the iPadtablet computer. Its consumer software includes the OS X and iOSoperating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites. That is the boring of way of saying what Apple does, Apple was a company built from the ground up by a man who always believed in himself and set high expectations for himself, it’s a company that has changed the world and technology, I can’t say I have ever heard of anybody else who started a dream of theirs in their own garage with people that were close them and capable of designing something from basically scrap. These people built one of the biggest steps forward in technology in their own garage. Apple as I said was one of the biggest steps forward in technology that has made it huge today with their own computers, their own phones, ipad, itunes, IOS software, safari browser. Apple provides people with the technology of the year every year. Jobs failed many times before he succeeded , but he always psuhed himself. His outlook on things, his philosophy on life was postive. He once said “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me,Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful . . . that’s what matters to me.” Jobs key to his success is that he did what he loved, so it wasn’t so much a chore to him or just a job that he didn’t like, it was a passion that he could express every single day of his life. Jobs also said “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” If you hate what you do, you’re not going to run into much success because you’re not putting your all into, but if you love and are passionate about something, you’re going to work for it every single day and put everything you have into that, and with that, comes success.Another way Jobs looked at is “To succeed in your chosen career, said Jobs, you must not accept ideas without truly understanding them. “To do something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grokwhat it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that.”
Sources:
Long Bio | all about Steve Jobs.com. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://allaboutstevejobs.com/bio/longbio/longbio_03.php
Steve Jobs' Philosophy of Life - The Objective Standard. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-philosophy-of-life/
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was a graduate student named Joanne Simpson, and his biological father was a political science or mathematics professor, a native Syrian named Abdulfattah John Jandali. They decided to put Steve up for adoption but they only wanted him to be adopted by well educated people that had a college education also. Paul and Clara Jobs, did not meet her expectations,they were a lower-middle class couple that had settled in the Bay Area after the war. Paul was a machinist from the Midwest who had not even graduated from high school. In the end, Joanne agreed to have her baby adopted by them, under the firm condition that they later send him to college. Steve actually wasn’t very interested in school at first until 4th grade. He did so well that he actually skipped fifth grade and went straight to 6th. He attended Crittenden Middle School, most kids there were not interested in school but more rather interested in bullying, and Steve was one of their victims for their poor interest. He demanded that he be transferred to another school or else he would just stop going. His parents complied, they moved to the cozier city of Los Altos, so that Steve could go to Cupertino Junior High. As Steve grew up in Los Altos he grew an interest in dealing with Electronics. Once Steve was out of middle school he went to Homestead High School where he enrolled in a popular electronics class. One of Jobs High School teachers recalled Steve calling up Bill Hewlett himself, co-founder of HP, to get spare parts for his homework, and even a summer job at HP’s factory. Steve’s entrepreneurial skills showed up early in his life. One of Jobs friends introduced him to someone who would become very important in Jobs life, his name was Stephen Wozniak, also known as Woz. Steve and Woz met in 1969. Steve and Woz met in 1969, when they were respectively 14 and 19. When Woz and Steve met Woz was actually working on a computer board at the time. Woz usually had the hardest time explaining what he was doing to people because they just didn’t get it, but Steve got it right away. Steve and Woz became bestfriends. A couple of years later, Woz and Steve started their first entrepreneurial venture. It was 1972, and on US campuses, there was a lot of talk about “phone phreaks.” They were early computer hackers that managed to build “blue boxes” little devices that fooled AT&T’s long-distance switching equipment, and allowed you to make phone calls for free. Woz had read about them and told Steve about it, which gave them the idea to try and build one, which they did, and surprisingly it worked! Steve game up with the idea to sell them,they would go room to room in Berkeley’s dorms, where Woz was a student, and sell them to interested students. What they were doing was illegal though and they actually stopped because they almost got caught by the police. Jobs enrolled into college, but after being there for a bit he decided it wasn’t really for him and that his parents shouldn’t be wasting their money on it, so he decided to drop out and just told himself that everything would turn out ok, which everything did, and it was the best decision he had ever made. In 1974, Steve desperately needed money, so he got a job at Atari. Atari was the first video game company. It was created by Nolan Bushnell in 1972, and one of its first employees was Al Acorn, the inventor of Pong. Steve was hired even though he would often call his co-workers names and smell pretty bad. That’s why he was soon moved to the night shift. Steve looked up to Nolan Bushnell, he was one of his inspirations in starting Apple. Later on Woz However, in his spare time, he had cultivated his interest in designing computer circuits, and had joined a computer hobbyists association called the Homebrew Computer Club. Woz started working on his own computer, which he showed it to Jobs. Jobs was so impressed by it, they started making the computer themselves and start selling them at Homebrew meetings.Steve later on came up with idea to start their own company, Steve told Woz“Well, even if we lose money, we’ll have a company. For once in our lives, we’ll have a company.” Woz thought that was a good enough argument. To get the the $1,000 they needed to start building the first boards, Steve sold his Volkswagen van, and Woz his HP 65 calculator. They thought about how to call the new company, and couldn’t come up with a good name, until one day, Steve said that they would call it Apple if they didn’t find anything better. And they didn’t… so Apple Computer was born.The two friends needed some more help getting their company started, and they got it from one of Steve’s colleagues from Atari, Ron Wayne. Wayne basically wrote the necessary paperwork to start a corporation and drew the company’s first logo. As a result, he got 10% of the company’s shares, while Steve and Woz split the rest (45% each).Apple Computer’s first order was from a Homebrew member called Paul Terrel. Paul Terrel started a store called the Byte shop, Paul ordered 50 of them for his store, at $500 a piece. That was $25,000 altogether,iIt was a huge step forward for their company, and got Steve and Woz very excited. They started putting together the parts in the Jobs garage, with help from Steve’s sister Patti and his friend from Reed, Dan Kottke. They paid them $1 a board. The parts for the Apple cost $220, while the computer was sold to Terrel for $500.Steve and Woz also started selling the computer on their own. They agreed on the retail price of $666.66. That number was based on a simple calculation, a 33% margin. They showed it to the Homebrew people in March 1976, but the response wasn’t very positive.So they went elsewhere, going from store to store and trying to sell them. They sold a couple hundreds this way.This was the start of Apple Computer. Steve and Woz had bought the other co-founder Ron Wayne out for $800, and incorporated the company on April 1, 1976. Getting into the general idea of Apple and what they do, and what apple is, Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPodmedia player, the iPhonesmartphone, and the iPadtablet computer. Its consumer software includes the OS X and iOSoperating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites. That is the boring of way of saying what Apple does, Apple was a company built from the ground up by a man who always believed in himself and set high expectations for himself, it’s a company that has changed the world and technology, I can’t say I have ever heard of anybody else who started a dream of theirs in their own garage with people that were close them and capable of designing something from basically scrap. These people built one of the biggest steps forward in technology in their own garage. Apple as I said was one of the biggest steps forward in technology that has made it huge today with their own computers, their own phones, ipad, itunes, IOS software, safari browser. Apple provides people with the technology of the year every year. Jobs failed many times before he succeeded , but he always psuhed himself. His outlook on things, his philosophy on life was postive. He once said “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me,Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful . . . that’s what matters to me.” Jobs key to his success is that he did what he loved, so it wasn’t so much a chore to him or just a job that he didn’t like, it was a passion that he could express every single day of his life. Jobs also said “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” If you hate what you do, you’re not going to run into much success because you’re not putting your all into, but if you love and are passionate about something, you’re going to work for it every single day and put everything you have into that, and with that, comes success.Another way Jobs looked at is “To succeed in your chosen career, said Jobs, you must not accept ideas without truly understanding them. “To do something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grokwhat it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that.”
Sources:
Long Bio | all about Steve Jobs.com. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://allaboutstevejobs.com/bio/longbio/longbio_03.php
Steve Jobs' Philosophy of Life - The Objective Standard. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-philosophy-of-life/