Steve Jobs was born in California in 1955. He was put up for adoption and was raised by his very supportive adoptive parents (Hurley-Hansen & Giannantonio, 2013). Receiving the majority of his education in California, Steve Jobs graduated from high school and continued on to college. Attending college briefly he left after obtaining a job working for Atari, a very popular gaming company at the time. Disenchanted with his job at Atari he left and spent a considerable amount of time traveling in India. Returning from India, Jobs and a friend, Steven Wozniak founded the Apple Computer Inc. in his parent’s garage and released the Apple I in 1976 (Yukari & Fowler, 2011). An innovator and technical genius, Jobs and Wozniak released the Apple …show more content…
Many believe that his greatest accomplishments were yet to come. Hurley-Hansen & Giannantonio (2013) state “Steve Jobs personal success and business story reflect the American dream” (para.1). Experiencing highs and lows in the business community, Jobs followed his spirit and dreams and did not let setbacks stop him from continuing. Beginning in the garage of his parent’s home, he persevered until he became the CEO of one of the most successful computer companies in the world, Apple Computer. The entrepreneurial spirit carried him through the firing and rehiring at his own company, starting and selling other companies, and transitioning easily between industries and technologies (Hurley-Hansen & Giannantonio, 2013). A key item to note about Jobs is his innovativeness, both in the products he designed and the way he wove everyday life events, and the success and failures encountered, into living a successful and fulfilling …show more content…
Instead of asking customers what features they thought they might like to have in a mobile phone, Steve Jobs was the market researcher for Apple. His innovative thought process and realizing he was creating a product that people would want, allowed him to ask himself every morning what he wanted in the current device in design (Gobble, 2012). Arriving at the Apple office he would pass along his idea and the engineers were then expected to incorporate the idea into the device. Instead of creating brand new products, Jobs and Apple excelled at taking half conceived ideas and rebuilding them into products that are done properly and in a way the consumer wants (Gobble,
Jobs had a talent at recognizing other talent. Steve Jobs wasn't a tech person, he didn't know computers, or coding, he knew exactly how to get people to work together and had a vision that no one else had. He got the most value out of people, which speaks for itself. Just look at 2 companies he built... Apple and Pixar
Once Apple was bought back to life by the iMac, Jobs shifted his focus to improve the diminishing market share of Apple. He decided that he could make use of the unique knowledge available at Apple for designing both hardware and software to achieve
Steve Jobs was born on Feburary 24, 1995 in Green Bay Wisconsin. His biological mother put him up for adaptation, because she could not care for him and give him a good child hood. She requested that her son to be placed with a well-educated family. When Steve Jobs was growing up he Didn’t have any friends so he wandered to neighbors garages looking to learn more about electronics because a lot of them were engineers. Steve jobs liked fiddling with electronics so much that he spent his time after school at the packyard electronics company learning more in depth about how to make electronic devices. Steve jobs had a hard time focusing in class. Until his fourth grade teacher found a way to get him to focus in class it was by bribing him to do his work. That worked so well that the school recommended him to skip fifth grade and go straight to junior high. Steve jobs told his parents he did not like the school that he was going to, and wanted to change schools. Steve Jobs and his parents moved to silicon valley where there was a premiere school for electronics and technology. He found a friend when he was in high school that was a geek just like him, that friend was Stephen Woznick. Stephen Woznic...
Steve Wozniak is an interesting man who has created devices at Apple and has become a pilot. Wozniak also has taken his past knowledge and used it to make new devices, which represents the habit of mind applying past knowledge to new situations. Wozniak has gone through troubles in his life, is having great success with Apple, and has left Apple on an occasion.
Elon musk is a recognized South African inventor and entrepreneur; he is nationalized as Canadian and American as well. He is one of the most brilliant minds of these times, but his life was not always perfect. His success did not come from one day to another; he struggled in life, but he decided that he was going to be remembered forever one day. His achievements, dedication and motivation by creating Space X and leading the success of Tesla Motors, has positioned him as one of the most powerful and rich men in the world. Elon musk was born in June 28th 1971, in Pretoria South Africa.
Bill h. Gates was born in Seattle Washington ,1955, October 28th.Bill was an only son he had one sister. Gates parents wanted him to have a career in law, but he started studying computer research. His older sister Kristi is a tax accountant. ‘‘Lakeside was a private school chosen by Gates's parents in the hopes that it would be more challenging for their son's intellectual drive and curiosity.’’ When gates first started with computers he was debugging them and helped to computerize electric power grids for Bonneville Power Administration. Gates dropped out of Harvard, and ended his academic life and started his life of a software designer.
To begin with, Steve Jobs and John D. Rockefeller had very similar starting points. Both Jobs and Rockefeller grew up in modest families and showed signs of interest in their jobs at a young age. Jobs showed interest into machines before high school and took multiple lectures on the topic. During these lectures, he met Steve Wozniak and together they created a company that primarily designs video games. They later joined a group of computer addicts who
Bill Gates is a very successful man with a net worth of over seventy-nine billion united states dollars. He game changer because he created a new software that laid out a path for future generations of technology. He changed the world of technology, and changed a lot of perspectives on thought, ability, and creativity. Bill Gates is a smart man, and he is admired for his ability to create a new world to share with everyone just from a few ideas running through his head. He called this new world ‘Microsoft.’
It was Steve Jobs who made Apple leave the garage and make leaps and bounds in the world of technology. Steve Wozniak made the first prototype, but it was Jobs who “saw the potential” in his computer and persuaded Wozniak to sell it (Peterson 106). Even though that first computer saw very little success, Jobs knew that Apple had potential and so released the Apple II. From the beginning Jobs knew what the consumers wanted, and where computers were going to take the world; he had a vision of the opportunities in technology and saw that Apple needed to move in a different direction. In 1984, one year before he left, Jobs finished the Macintosh computer system. He was pushed from his original computer design project, “the Lisa”, and then raced to release the Mac first, but the Lisa was released to the public first. Although the Lisa came out first, the Mac “[became] synonymous with Apple, mark[ing] a…revolution in…personal computing,” (Peterson 106).
Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco, California. His unwed biological parents put him up for adoption. Paul and Clara Jobs, a lower-middle-class couple, adopted Steve at a young age. Steve Jobs grew up in a neighborhood of engineers working on electronics and other gizmos in their garages on weekends. This sha...
Exploring the deep, dark realms of outer space, developing new energy efficient cars, and coding computers to make life easier are all areas of science that Elon Musk has effected. In his youth, his thirst for knowledge could not be quenched. He read every book and never ran out of questions to ask about the way machines worked. College life helped Elon Musk learn the skills he would need for the outside world. As a professional entrepreneur and the CEO of three companies, Elon Musk has effected almost every area of science. Throughout his life and career, Elon Musk continues to serve as a role model for people in all fields of scientific work.
Steve Jobs is revered for revolutionizing the cell phone. His ideas propelled Apple to become a leader in technological innovation. Steve Jobs was a brilliant inventor, entrepreneur, and leader. His passion was evident in his inventions. His ideas never ceased to amaze apple and society as a whole. The juxtaposition of time before the iPhone and time after speaks volumes on his impact to society. Although the iPhone will always be Jobs’ most remembered invention there is much more to the man behind Apple that many realize.
Steve Jobs knew what he wanted, with a creative, brilliant mind for advertising. Steve Jobs' contributed significantly to entrepreneurs, and emphasized the value of design, and at the same time, Jobs understood the essential part aesthetics would play in appealing to the public. During the 1970’s, Steve Jobs helped in establish and popularize the personal computer, and in the 1980’s he saw the computers potential in the commercial market place, earning Jobs a devoted following as his forward thinking and product design is not only functional in both the personal and commercial arenas. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple they were close to bankruptcy, but his involvement in editing the “Think Different” ad was the refocus Apple needed. (Dan, 2011).
...t cell phones. Then, in 2010 Jobs outdid himself by introducing the iPad. It was a perfect gadget for all gamers, geeks, or people who just wanted this amazing technology at their fingertips. The iPad had a significantly larger screen than the iPhone and was capable of holding more data.
The very first iPhone was announced by the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, in 2007. His vision was to reinvent the phone. iPhones have revolutionized smartphones and have shaped the cell phone industry into what it is today. On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs put together an incredible keynote presentation. He stated that he would be “introducing a wide-screen ipod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet device” (Ritchie, 2015). The audience assumed that this meant that Mr. Jobs would be launching three separate devices. However, it was only one device, the iPhone. Within the past 7 years, Apple has been able to tweak its iPhones by incorporating major redesigns. These redesigns use combinations