Steve+Jobs

 Steve Jobs- Born and raised in San Francisco, Steve was adopted as a young child. He grew up in California, and after high school started college in Oregon. After only one semester and a few classes Jobs dropped out of college. Although later he credited his idea for making many font types on his first Mac, to be from a calligraphy class he had before he dropped out.

After working for a few years as a computer technician at Atari, he saved up enough money to take a spiritual trip with a friend to India. When Steve Jobs came back he had conformed to the Indian ways and become a Buddhist. He also experimented with hallucinogens, including LSD.

When Jobs returned to his previous job at Atari he was put in charge of a large project where he was supposed to create a smaller circuit board for video games. When he finished the job and did not receive the payment that was expected, Jobs and a friend left the business to co-found Apple with Stephen Wozniak. Stephen's job before he joined Jobs in founding Apple, was an electronics hacker. Between the two they had plenty of computical and electronic experience to start this business. The two friends met though a friend who interested them in assembling and selling personal computers. An interesting fact is that when Apple began to grow as a company, Jobs began looking for experienced executives to run and manage the company. Steve eventually persuaded John Sculley, formerly president of Pepsi-Cola to serve as the CEO of Apple. As the company expanded Macintosh produced the first commercial small computer with graphic user interface. However after a long stretch of directing, Jobs' and Sculley's working relationship did not work out and Sculley let Stephen go. However, even through Jobs hardships with being fired at Macintosh, he went on to found another company. This company also dealt with computers and was called, NeXT Computer. It was more known for its technical work and software development. The company focused on experimenting with new innovations and invented the first digital computer chip, and Ethernet port. After Jobs returned back to his first company, Macintosh or Apple, he managed to sell fifty computers to one dealer, for $500 each. These computers were assembled in his parents’ garage by Jobs and a few friends.

When Apple finally had its first public appearance in 1976, the company’s image became important to Stephen. Realizing this, Jobs focused on turning out a new prototype for the Apple II computer. This new computer was introduced about a year later, and became one of the most successful innovations in American Business.

The design, features, performance, technology and compactness, was the main seller for this personalized computer. This new idea also expressed the media’s questions and requests for an individual home computer that had disk drives and also used spreadsheets. It also included special features that were easy for people to use. These included, windows, folders, point and click, cut and paste, and it came with a mouse. [] []