An Inspirational Story- Steve Jobs
An inspirational story- Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. His mother decided to put him for adoption, as at the time she was still unwed. When she found out that her son’s future parents, Justin and Clara Jobs were not college graduates she agreed to sign the adoption papers only after they promised that they would give her son a chance to go to college. Steve grew up in Cupertino, California.
He did go to college but dropped out due to the high costs. Since he could not afford a dorm room, he slept on the floor of his friend’s room. He would walk 7 miles across town to get one good meal at the Hare Krishna temple on Sundays. He did continue with calligraphy classes – an invaluable learning for young Steve and the foundation for his font system in the Mac.
Steve managed to get a job at Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto – this is where he met Steve Wozniak – the man who would eventually be Jobs’ co-founder of Apple Computers. The two Steve’s founded Apple Computers, establishing the company operations in a garage on April 1, 1976. Steve Jobs was convinced they could design a personal computer. They called it Apple and their first product was the Apple I. In that year itself, the duo sold their prized possessions to produce 50 machines for a local store.
However, the advent of IBM’s highly successful PC and a horrible expensive launch by Apple of Lisa (a failure) put the company under a lot of pressure.
Commandeered by Jobs who apparently pushed the company’s engineers mercilessly, Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984, the first small computer with a GUI. Thereafter, several companies copied this easily accessible interface. The Macintosh paid rich dividends as it was a great success and after 10 years of hard work and full of ups and downs, Apple computer had grown into a 2 billion dollar company with 4000 employed.
A sad turn of events followed where Jobs was fired by John Sculley, the CEO Jobs had
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. His mother decided to put him for adoption, as at the time she was still unwed. When she found out that her son’s future parents, Justin and Clara Jobs were not college graduates she agreed to sign the adoption papers only after they promised that they would give her son a chance to go to college. Steve grew up in Cupertino, California.
He did go to college but dropped out due to the high costs. Since he could not afford a dorm room, he slept on the floor of his friend’s room. He would walk 7 miles across town to get one good meal at the Hare Krishna temple on Sundays. He did continue with calligraphy classes – an invaluable learning for young Steve and the foundation for his font system in the Mac.
Steve managed to get a job at Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto – this is where he met Steve Wozniak – the man who would eventually be Jobs’ co-founder of Apple Computers. The two Steve’s founded Apple Computers, establishing the company operations in a garage on April 1, 1976. Steve Jobs was convinced they could design a personal computer. They called it Apple and their first product was the Apple I. In that year itself, the duo sold their prized possessions to produce 50 machines for a local store.
However, the advent of IBM’s highly successful PC and a horrible expensive launch by Apple of Lisa (a failure) put the company under a lot of pressure.
Commandeered by Jobs who apparently pushed the company’s engineers mercilessly, Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984, the first small computer with a GUI. Thereafter, several companies copied this easily accessible interface. The Macintosh paid rich dividends as it was a great success and after 10 years of hard work and full of ups and downs, Apple computer had grown into a 2 billion dollar company with 4000 employed.
A sad turn of events followed where Jobs was fired by John Sculley, the CEO Jobs had