Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple

By DP Bullington

Education

Never got a degree

- 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

Post-College YearsTravelled 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."

Created Apple in 1976 with Stephen Wozniak and Ronald Wayne 

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?"

3 Years Later...

Tensions with the Pepsi Man led him to get fired from the company he co-founded

BARRED!

Went on to create another company called NeXT Computer in 1986Created expensive and technologically advanced computers            First computers to include audio and graphics in e-mail

At the same time he bought a company called The Graphics Group...            ...for $10 Million. Jobs paid $5 million in cash

That Company became Pixar

             

And they were pretty successful

Sells NeXT to Apple for $429 Million in 1997

           And became the CEO (again) of the company he co-

founded

Current Status and Role in Apple

-Co-founder/CEO                         -Markets products -Creates new products                                                                                                                             

A Few Things Apple Has Made With Jobs as CEO

As of September 29, 2007, the Company had approximately 21,600 full-timeequivalent employees and an additional 2,100 temporary equivalent employees andcontractors.  

By 2009: 35,000 employees worldwide               $42.91 Billion Revenue

Apple's Current Performance

Community involvement

Donating Macs to universities such as the University of Maryland's College of Chemical and Life Sciences

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

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

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

My Perspective of Steve Jobs

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