Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Steven Paul Jobs February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011 was an American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and a co-founder of Apple Inc., CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar,a member of The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, to parents who put him up for adoption at birth. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s.He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out, and traveled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism.His declassified FBI report states that he used marijuana and LSD while he was in college, and he once told a reporter that taking LSD was “one of the two or three most important things” that he did in his life.

Born Name	Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs
Nickname	Steve Jobs
Profession	Apple Inc., Pixar (Self-made),
Cause of death	Pancreatic Cancer
Marital Status	Married
Death Place	Palo Alto, California, United States
Date of Birth	February 24, 1955
Birth Place	San Francisco, California, USA
Hometown	San Francisco
Nationality	American
Address	San Francisco, California, USA
Height (in Feet-Inches)	6′ 2″
Height (in Meters)	1.9 m
Height (in Centimeters)	189 cm
Weight (in Kilograms)	72 kg
Weight (in Pounds)	160 lbs
Hobbies, Likes & Dislikes
Chest Size	Not Known Inches
Waist Size	Not Known Inches
Biceps Size	Not Known Inches
Sexual Orientation	Not Known
Body Shape	Straight
Money Factor
Net Worth	$10.2 Billion
Salary	Not Known
Education
Educational Qualification	1 Semester completed from Reed College
School	Homestead High School, Monta Loma Elementary School & Cupertino Junior High School
College	Reed College
University	Not Known
Family & Relatives
Father	Abdulfattah John Jandali
Mother	Joanne Schieble Simpson
Brother	Mona Simpson, Patricia Ann Jobs
Sister	Not Known

personal life and family

Steven Jobs was born February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He grew up with one sister, Patty. Paul Jobs was a machinist and fixed cars as a hobby. Jobs remembers his father as being very skilled at working with his hands.

In 1961 the family moved to Mountain View, California. This area, just south of Palo Alto, California, was becoming a center for electronics. Electronics form the basic elements of devices such as radios, televisions, stereos, and computers. At that time people started to refer to the area as “Silicon Valley.” This is because a substance called silicon is used in the manufacturing of electronic parts.

As a child, Jobs preferred doing things by himself. He swam competitively, but was not interested in team sports or other group activities. He showed an early interest in electronics and gadgetry. He spent a lot of time working in the garage workshop of a neighbor who worked at Hewlett-Packard, an electronics manufacturer.

Jobs also enrolled in the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club. There he saw engineers demonstrate new products, and he saw his first computer at the age of twelve. He was very impressed, and knew right away that he wanted to work with computers.

While in high school Jobs attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard plant. On one occasion he boldly asked William Hewlett (1931–2001), the president, for some parts he needed to complete a class project. Hewlett was so impressed he gave Jobs the parts, and offered him a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard.

February 1985, interview in “Playboy” magazine] I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore. When we finally presented it at the shareholders’ meeting, everyone in the auditorium gave it a five-minute ovation. What was incredible to me was that I could see the Mac team in the first few rows. It was as though none of us could believe we’d actually finished it. Everyone started crying.1985 iIl always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and then the thread of Apple weave in and out, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.2003 There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television–but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

1998 A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.1993 I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time.

May 1998, interview in “Business Week” magazine] That’s been one of my mantras–focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts.Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

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.

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