SUMMARY OF STEVE JOBS BIOGRAPHY - WALTER ISAACSON

SUMMARY OF STEVE JOBS BIOGRAPHY

     Steve Jobs is considered as the Father of Digital Revolution and Massive Innovation and a design Perfectionist. He had a net worth of $8 Billion in 2010.

Steve Jobs Biography

     There is not a single executive or creator in the technology industry more important than him. He’s one of the most creative and daring CEO of all time.

     A global icon who will shake the world of technology and media. His products are adored by millions of people across the world.

    A company that he started in the garage is worth $1 trillion in August 2018.

     For over 30 years, computer, music, movies, and mobile phones have all been transformed by none other than Steve Jobs of Apple.

     Today, we talked about the fascinating journey of one of the most loved entrepreneurs of all time Steve Jobs and this is his biography born in San Fransisco, California his parents were unable to care for him Steve Jobs’ early life was a struggle of identity.

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     He was an adopted child raised by caring parents. One of the early visions of his biological parents was an academic success for Steve Jobs.

     Despite his immense intelligence, he wasn’t interested in schooling.

     Apart from a few selected subjects, at teenage the Steve, who was raised in mountain view, in the 1970s was much more interested in pranking phones, computers, creating innovative business ideas, and missing around with his close friend Steve Wozniak.

     Steve’s approach to education has been explained very publicly.

He felt that he could really learn after he had dropped out of college.

     In 1976, when Jobs was just 21 years old, he and his partner, Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer. 

     The company started in steve jobs’ family garage, funding their entrepreneurial venture by Jobs selling his Volkswagen, bus and Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator.

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     Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry by democratizing the technology and making the machine smaller, cheaper, intuitive, and accessible to everyday consumers.

     Wozniak conceived a series of user-friendly personal computers and with jobs in charge of marketing.

     

Apple initially marketed the computer for $666 each.

     Initial success with the Apple l pushed Wozniak and jobs to create bigger and better computers.

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     And by the late 1970s, they have created what will become Apple’s first big success, the Apple ll.

     A high-speed business workstation the computer was a hit in their native California and jobs soon became a millionaire from the computers’ heavy sales throughout the state and country.

     However, things turned sour for jobs, when he sought to expand apple further hiring former Pepsi's Chief Executive, John Sculley to lead Apply in a new direction.

     The experienced Chief Executive had no patience for Jobs’ controversial and demanding management style.

     And after 2 years, they had no time for each other. In a boardroom meeting, steve jobs was fired from the company that he founded.

     His dismissal at Apple ignited a fire in jobs. One that burnt for the remainder of his career.

     Just a year later, he purchased a struggling animation studio fro star wars’ mastermind, George Lucas.

     It bled money for over 10 years; money that jobs, himself was appending on the studio until a fantastic 1997 hits with the movie, Toy story.

     Likewise, he created another company and called it NeXT 

Steve Jobs NeXT

With specialized high-end workstations for the business community. 

     However, it was a commercial failure and Next bled money until it was purchased by Apple a decade later, bringing Steve Jobs back to the company that he built.

     Over the next few years, Jobs went from a small position at Apple to the company’s interim CEO and eventually taking on the position full-time.

     Steve Jobs’ second period at Apple, produced many of the company’s more successful devices, from the iPad to the iMac that jobs led Apple went ahead of its previous milestone and grew into the technology sector.

     Although it took a heavy blow to set jobs on the right path, his experiences reflect a true genius and it’s regarded as the biggest second act in business history.

     However, early in 2009 reports circulating about jobs’ weight loss. Some predicting his health issues have returned jobs had responded to these concerns by stating that he was dealing with hormone imbalance.

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      After nearly a year out of the spotlight, steve jobs delivered a keynote address at an invite-only Apple event on September 9, 2009.

     Later, on October 1^st, 2011 Apple sadly announce that its co-founder had passed away after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade.

     Steve Jobs died in Palo Alto when he was just 56 years old. Steve jobs: 

     "I was lucky.

     I have found what I love to do early in life when I was 20. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again,  less sure about everything.

     I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that what I loved I did."

     You need to find what you love to do. 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.

  

     The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle.

     Despite the cut-throat competition from rival tech companies like Google and Microsoft, Steve Jobs make the success path for his company Apple and kept working hard till the last breath to make sure Apple remains as the top tech company in the world.

     He is a true inspiration for every boarding entrepreneurs and will remain as the hero of the tech industry.  

     The most famous word used by Steve Jobs is, "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish".            

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