Steve Jobs

• Steven Jandali was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco. His ancestors were of European origin.
• He was adopted by Paul Jobs when he was five years old and became Steven Jobs.
• He studied in California, but dropped out of college.
• At the age of 19, Jobs got a Job as a technician at Atari, a video game manufacturer.
• After saving enough money, he then traveled to India for spiritual enlightenment.
• He became a Buddhist, shaved his head and wore traditional Indian clothes.
• He came back to Atari and along with his friend Steve Wozniak, reduced the circuit board by 50 chips.
• At thew age of 21, he founded Apple inc. along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne
• In 1983, he lured John Sculley away from Pepsi Cola to serve as Apple's CEO.
• In may 1985, the board of director's sided with Sculley and removed Jobs from management duties. Jobs resigned 5 months later.
• Jobs founded NeXT computers in 1985 with $7,000,000.
• Jobs bought The Graphic Group(now Pixar) in 1986.
• NeXT was aquired by Apple in 1997 and saw the return of Jobs to Apple.
• Many animated movies were made by Pixar, which became box-office hits.
• In 2000, Jobs became CEO of Apple.
• In 2006, The Walt Disney Company acquired Pixar, making Jobs the largest single shareholder with 7% stakes.
• Under Jobs, Apple created the iTunes store, iPod, iPhone, iPad
• In august 2011, he resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained as the chairman.
• Jobs died on October 5th, 2011 in his house, due to pancreatic cancer.
• He is considered as one of the greatest inventor of our time.