Steve Jobs Life
Steve Jobs, the founder of apple Inc is an exemplary leader of our times. He is a great person in the field of technology and an outstanding management expert. He is the one guy who has acquired any man’s dream position by reaching the top of a huge multi national firm –Apple Inc just by his sheer confidence and hard work despite being a mere college drop-out. In this paper we will discuss about how he became a great leader and then a role model to a lot of people who has an interest in technology and management.
Steve Jobs was born to Joanne Simpson and is fathered by an Egyptian Arab in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Paul Jobs and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California later adopted him. In the year 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and got admission in Reed College, Portland, Oregon. He dropped out after one semester. But he refused to go back home and stayed around college and studied subjects like philosophy and foreign cultures.
Steve Jobs had a deep-rooted interest in technology and so he secured a job at Atari Inc. which was a high end manufacturer of video games. He became friends with colleague designer Steve Wozniak and attended studies of the “Homebrew Computer Club” with him. Wozniak and Jobs made a device with a toy whistle fitted in the Cap’n Crunch cereal box to make free long distance telephone calls possible. He then persuaded Wozniak to quit his job at Hewlett Packard and join him in his venture that was related to personal computers. They sold stuffs like scientific calculators to make money for the capital investment. All these things display his practical knowledge and deep interest in technology. His confidence in himself and his co-workers can also be noted here.
During the year 1976, Jobs, who was 21, and Wozniak aged 26, opened Apple Computer Co. in the Jobs home garage. The very first personal computer was sold for USD 666.66. By the year1980, Apple had already brought out three advanced versions of the personal computer. It possessed a highly successful IPO, which made both founders millionaires within a short period. Steve Jobs always dreamt of revolutionizing the hardware industry. The firm was named as NextStep and the new system was then called as NeXT Computer. He attracted more than U.S. $250 million into the firm. The system anyhow was a commercial flop but it was a great help with object-oriented programming, PostScript, and magneto-optical tools. Tim Berners-Lee created the first World Wide Web system at CERN on a NeXT system. Bitterly unhappy with NextStep, Jobs accepted the job that Apple offered him. Steve Jobs later started Pixar Inc., which has gone on to create animated films and this venture has made him one of the most sought after technologists in the Hollywood world. Later in 2003 he introduced iPod and several years after his new venture iTunes was opened, which was a digital jukebox. Apple has a huge advertising track record using innovative techniques and its ‘Rip, Mix, Burn’ campaign was just another feather in its cap and a fantabulous hit. Now the industry widely utilizes the Mac OS to create the music and an iPod to save it.
To conclude Steve Jobs, who is well known world wide as the CEO of Apple Inc., is an exemplary leader of our times. Apple tops the industry in innovation and creativity with its award-winning Macintosh computers, OS X operating system, and customer and professional applications software. Much has been said about Steve Job’s aggressive management style and demanding personality. Fortune magazine once wrote that he “is actually one of Silicon Valley’s leading egomaniacs.” Jobs has always tried to position Apple and its products at the highest position of the information technology industry by anticipating and setting trends, at least in terms of creativity and style. As per Jobs, Passion rules, passion is about the inner energy and a love for what a person do. Jobs point out that without passion it becomes difficult to fight back in the face of obstacles and problems. Any person with passion finds a way to get things done and to make things happen, in spite of the problems and challenges that get in his/her way. His life itself is a vivid example of what he says or believes (Apple Press Info, 2009).
We can see that Steve Jobs has completely revolutionized Apple Inc from a PC manufacturing company to a digital music leader over the past few years thus setting the precedent for extra radical change over the coming years. This consists of a customer base that is very well devoted to the firm and its brand, especially in the United States (Apple Inc, 2009). Fortune magazine termed Apple the most sought after firm in the United States in the year 2008 and in the world in the year 2009.
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