Minecraft and the Macintosh. They both start with an “m” and so does the word millionaire. A pretty big coincidence if I do say so myself because the makers of these creations became millionaires, even billionaires. So then who created these amazing works of technology? The answer to that question is Steven Paul Jobs and Markus Alexej Persson, both of these men intriguing people.
Steve Jobs was a big troublemaker in his early years and was very intuitive. First, Steve was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955. Next, he was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs when he was a baby. After that, he grew up in Mountain View, California in South San Francisco. Finally, Steve Jobs had an adopted
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First, Jobs started his education by going to Monta Loma Elementary. After that, he took a test and scored such an extraordinarily high score that the school wanted him to skip all the grades up to high school when he was only eleven years old. Luckily, his father and mother thought that was a terrible idea and only let him skip fifth grade. Next, he went to Crittenden Middle school, but he got bullied so much that he threatened his mom and dad by telling them he would quit school if the bullying didn 't stop. They knew Steve’s threats were serious, so they changed to the Cupertino school system. Finally, Jobs went to Reed college and continued to attend classes even when he dropped out of …show more content…
First, Paul started up the Apple company in his father and mother’s garage, which cost him and his friend Woz quite a lot of money. Second, he created the Apple 1 computer and the Apple 2 computer. After that, he created the Macintosh computer which made him a large amount of money. He also founded Pixar and NeXT, both a huge success. As you can see Steve Jobs had very amazing accomplishments.
Markus had too many accomplishments to count and they weren 't the type to go unnoticed. Notch made his first game at the age of seven or eight and it was fully working. Next, he worked at Midasplayer for a while but quit. After that, he worked at Activision Blizzard for a period of time but also quit. Further, he created Minecraft and became a billionaire because of it. Also, he founded Mojang with Jakob Porser and Carl Manneh. As you can see there is no way that Notch’s many accomplishments would go
Sir Steve Jobs, the almighty co-founder of Apple started apple dreaming big. The Harvard College dropout carried through with that dream. According to Leander Kahney, author of “Inside Steve’s Brain,” “apple went public 1980 with the biggest public offering since 1958” (2008), this offer proved successful as apple soon became a super power. Apple suffered a fall out though, but Steve Jobs came back and rescued them, reviving them to their previous stature.
Steve Jobs and his friend Wozniak started to create their very first computer, and it came out a lot better than what they thought it was going to be. With very little education, the first computer that came out was extraordinary. “It was the first single-board computer with built-in circuitry allowing for direct video interface, along with a central ROM, which allowed it to load programs from an external source” (“Steve P. Jobs”). Without the education that most people get, for someone who dropped out of college, Jobs created such a powerful computer without the knowledge that most people have. Jobs computer that he created along with his friend was so astonishing a second computer came out. “A year later, the Apple II was launched with a simple, compact design like the Apple I, plus a color monitor” (“Steve Paul Jobs”). The first computer that Jobs created was excellent enough to create a second one, which was also a superior computer. Even though Jobs dropped out of college, he was still intelligent enough to create one of the biggest companies in the world. Apple incorporations was going strong until one day the company decided to let Steve Jobs go,...
Steve Jobs and Fr. Jose Arizmendiarrieta were the founders and leaders of two different but highly successful and profitable organisations, Apple and Mondragon. The two companies are from different parts of the world, in different industries, and can only be compared by their organisational and financial success. Fr. Jose and Steve were the architects of this success, leading and inspiring confidence and support among the people who were needed to achieve their vision and organisations goals (DuBrin, 2013). This essay will compare and contrast the leadership of Steve Jobs with that of Fr. Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta based on Andrew J. DuBrin’s leadership theory.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me. - Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs is a world-renowned entrepreneur who revolutionized the technology industry. He is best known as Apple’s co-founder (“Obituary: Steve Jobs”, 2011). Jobs’ numerous innovations not only changed the world, but they also developed the personal computer industry. The Apple co-founder never seized to amaze his audience with his endless unique innovations. Throughout his career, Jobs contributed to the technology industry with devices such as the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac and MacBook (O'Reilly, 2011). His death on October 5, 2011 marked the end of an innovative streak (O'Reilly, 2011).
It all started in the garage of a twenty-something Steve Jobs. He and a friend put what little money they had together ($1300) to make the first computer for Apple, and thus Apple was born. The idea for the first Apple motherboard was made by Jobs while he was on LSD. He was quoted in the New York Times saying, “Taking LSD is one of two or three of the best decisions I have ever made.” Markoff, John. "New York Times." What the Dormouse Said 2005: 3. Steve Jobs talks about his early success when stating, “when I was 23 I had a net worth of over a million dollars, at 24 it was over $10 million, and at 25 it was over $100 million.” Steve Jobs is a true embodiment of what Apple is: unique. Co-founder Steve Wozniak said this about Jobs, “With Steve Jobs you never know exactly where an idea comes from.” This is what Apple is, not conventional and predictable. However, when looking at their marketi...
Steve Jobs started facing challenges throughout his whole life. At birth, he was put up for adoption which, although hard to embrace at first, would end up being one of the experiences that helped him to be so successful. When Steve was just six years old his neighbor found out he was adopted and teased him, which hurt him deeply. He told Steve his parents did not want him, which was the reason he was put up for adoption. He ran home to his adoptive parents who guaranteed him that he was special because they chose only him. From then on, Jobs had a sense of being special. Steve Jobs felt he was on a journey throughout his life. He often said, “The journey was the reward.” (“Jobs' Biography: Thoughts On Life, Death And Apple” 3). That journey involved realizing and resolving conflicts about his role in the world: why he was here and what it was about. Jobs advanced through his adolescent life strongly disliking the forced authority he must obey in a classroom. He resisted education to the maximum, but his unwillingness to continue on through college is what ironically led him to create the company, Apple, and direct it to become the 15th biggest company in the world (“The World’s Biggest Public Companies”). Through the practices of Zen Buddhism, Jobs became an effective leader as well as learned how to stand strong, and fight against upper authority from his early life to college to his firing from Apple’s board of directors
As a kid, Steve Jobs was an unstable child, he was very wild and thought school was useless until 4th grade. That year Imogene “Teddy” Hill was his teacher, he was soon obsessed with school(his teacher bribed him with candy bars). He skipped the 5th grade and went to Crittenden Middle School (Moisescot). Steve Jobs wasn fond of school until late elementary, the person that got him interested was his teacher Teddy, who had a way of persuading him(candy bars). Bill Gates on the other hand liked school from the start, he loved reading and was very well educated throughout his years. Steve Jobs was very interested into electronics in his childhood, the way he was introduced with this type of engineering was by his dad. When Steve Jobs was young he was fascinated by mechanics. He and his father would building electronic devices in their garage. This experience is what drove him to have more interest in mechanics (TheFamousPeople.com). Once Steve Job’s dad had introduced him into electrical engineering, he was fascinated by what he could create. Instead of developing an interest in electrical engineering early on, Bill started to understand mechanics later on in life than from his childhood. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs grew up in completely different conditions than one another. First of all, “Bill Gates grew up in an upper middle-class family with his older sister, Kristianne, and younger sister, Libby.The Gates family atmosphere was warm and close, and all three children were encouraged to be competitive and strive for excellence”(Biography.com). “The Santa Clara county, south of the Bay Area, became known as Silicon Valley in the early 1950s after the sprouting of a myriad of semiconductor companies. As a result, young Steve Jobs grew up in a neighborhood of engineers working on electronics and other gizmos in their garages on weekends”
Steve jobs changed the world by creating Apple, inc, that made products that were revolutnary for there time period. He won several awards for his inventions, he died of pancreatic cancer. Steve jobs was the co-founder of apple with Stephen Wozniak. Steve jobs got fired from apple in 1984. He then started a new business called NeXT computer that made special computers for education and businesses. NeXT computers failed so he bought Pixar in 1986. Steve jobs created the ipad that came out in 2010 it is a cross between a iMac and a Iphone.
Steve Jobs (CEO and chairman of Apple Inc.) was an American entrepreneur and inventor. He was born in February 24, 1955 and founded Apple Inc. with his high school buddy Steve Wozniak in 1976. But later in 1976, when Apple was about to bankrupt he returned to it as advisor and Interim CEO. He made Apple profitable from near bankruptcy by 1998 (Walter Isaacson, 2013). From (1996-2011), he proved himself as one of the best engineering leaders of the world and made Apple the most innovative company of the world.
During senior year in high school, Jobs signed up for an electronics class taught by John McCollum. While in the class in 1969, Jobs met a man named Steve Wozniak, a former graduate of McCollum’s class. Like Jobs, Wozniak was a huge electronics “geek” and the two instantly bonded (Romain Moisescot).
While Jobs has always been an intelligent and innovative thinker, his youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. He entered university for one semester, but he failed so he left the university, and he said: "After six months, I could not find its value. The determination and perseverance was part of Steve's personality. He was in love with electronics, so he spent many evenings visiting the garage of Larry Lang, the engineer who lived down the street from his house. Then he searched for training companies in the electronics industry and worked in summer in HP Company because he wanted to strengthen his knowledge of electronics....
Jobs’s story in this first section is how he made it to college and dropped out, but stayed an extra eighteen months to drop in on the classes that interested him. This particular story takes me back to when I was in middle school. In my middle school days I thought school was too easy, so I never listened to what the teachers were saying. I always got bored with the subjects and would goof around in class. This included core subjects such as math, english, and science.
In 1976, Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer with his friend Wozniak in the garage of Job’s parents. In 1984, Jobs introduced the Macintosh to the world. It was a very innovative and good product but sales were not strong. Apple’s board wanted to Jobs to step down from his position. In 1985, Steve Jobs founded NeXT Inc. Steve was able to create technologically advanced product but the cost was too high to be successful. Company made first profit after 10 years of operation. In 1997, NeXT Inc was acquired by Apple Inc. In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group. In 1995, the first film, Toy Story, came out. It was a big success and Pixar became one of the biggest animations producing company in the market. Jobs had opportunity to return to Apple, after Apple decided to purchase NeXT Inc. After Jobs returned to Apple, He started to invent new product. iMac was introduced to market and Jobs became permanent CEO of Apple. Apple started to expand their expertise under Jobs guidance. Apple started to introduce digital appliances like iPod, portable music player. In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone, the very first multi-touch display cellphone. iPod and iPhone completely changed world. These inventions were not only a better product but also new way...
Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, Steve Jobs was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. He was also the co-founder and CEO of Pixar and NeXT Inc. Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, CA February 24, 1955 and died in Palo Alto, CA October 5, 2011. His spouse was Laurene Powell from 1991-2011 when he died from a respiratory arrest related to the pancreas neuroendocrine tumor and Metastatic Insulinoma. Steve Jobs had 4 children Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Reed Jobs, Erin Jobs and Eve Jobs.